BDSM....!...?

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Originally Posted by ecchi

In the 1980s I used to own a video shop, and since I could not compete with the big chains on mainstream movies (people preferred to rent from Blockbuster and buy from Woolworths even though I was cheaper - because they trusted brand names) so 90% of my business came from the "top shelf". I found that the majority of my male customers wanted hardcore SM, which I could not sell (seriously illegal back then) and whenever I had something that looked like it might possibly have a torture scene in it it flew out. For example there is a film called "House Of Whipcord", which was a dull 1970's drama about a woman's prison. In those days it was only available in an heavily edited form (it had been cut down to 59 minutes to fit on a 60 minute video tape) from a minor video company (mom and pop type family company with no major contracts). I was the only person in the area selling it, so I was able to charge over three times the retail price and it still sold as fast as I could put it out, simply because the cover showed a picture of a terrified woman cowering from a whip. The only other films that sold as well was a series of detective movies that inferred on the cover that they held some SM scenes.

Normal is what the majority want; "weird" is what the minority want. And in over a quarter of a century of running various businesses, most of which catered at least in part to the adult industry, I have found that the "majority" of men want to see women tied up and hurt. So those with "issues" are technically those who do NOT like SM !!!

wow! this is really interesting.