Is bondage/bdsm a fetish...?

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Originally Posted by Simon

And the hardcore bondage lover usually won't be moved by images of pretty models artistically bound, since they know that bondage doesn't actually begin until someone wants to be released and isn't.

This makes more and more sense to me. No matter one's kink, there are always those who can survive happily role playing or fantasizing - then there are those, the hardcore folk, who cannot be satisfied with playing dress-up, they must walk to the edge, look back at you, then leap. I'm sure the majority could not understand how anyone could derive enjoyment from being bound or beaten or screwed (or all simultaneously) after one has been pushed outside the bounds of comfortability, both physically and emotionally, but the sexual mind never ceases to amaze. What may seem horribly dysfunctional to many, is right as rain to others.