Free Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission by Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame, Jon Jacobs Page B

untie themselves. There’s another market that wants to know that this girl is truly well bound and helpless. And by the same token, there are people who get turned on if [the actress] looks like she is not enjoying it, and there are other people who will get turned on if she looks like she’s enjoying it tremendously. But it’s Sturgeon’s Law: 99 percent of everything is crap.
    The first, probably the most important [problem] in this day and age is legal constraints. It’s not that the laws have changed; it’s the way personal freedoms are interpreted. [For example], I could never film a golden shower in one of my videos today. It is not more illegal, but it is economically unfeasible. The average prosecutor wants to go after pornography. Say it’s getting close to an election: The prosecutor will pick an easy target. Pornography is one of the easiest targets. But to the average audience, straight, good old-fashioned humping is no longer as taboo as it used to be. He knows that if he goes after run-of-the-mill porno, he is going to have a harder timegetting a conviction. Golden showers, fist fucking, enemas, things that the average person is going to interpret as perverse: Since I’m very allergic to jail cells, I leave [these things] out of my films because [then] I am less likely to get picked off the shelf in Podunk, Iowa, and face a court battle which would make it economically unfeasible for me to do business.
    I do not have any sex in my fetish films. I do a lot of shooting in Europe [and] I make two versions because the Europeans are strange: They like sex in their sex films. So I shoot two versions of everything that I do in Europe. Hard core [is] for release in Europe only. Every time I go to Europe, I’m less excited about coming back here. There have been increased prosecutions all over the country. [But] I’m here and I’m in the fight. I don’t like to be, but my only other choice is getting out of the business I’ve been in for 22 years. I’m [definitely]
not
a champion of pornography. I don’t think we’re doing any great social work. These are fuck films. They’re entertainment, not brain surgery. On the other hand, I don’t think we’re doing any harm. We make these for adults with adults, and what adults want to do in their own damn home is their own damn business, as long as nobody is harmed. I am a champion of personal freedom. The right to have fun is not in the Constitution [and] not protected. So I vote Liberal and pray for the Supreme Court justices to see the light.

Three

T HE ABC S OF D&S
    The things that seem beautiful, inspiring, and life-affirming to me seem ugly, hateful, and ludicrous to most other people. This may be the most painful part of being a sadomasochist: this experience of radical difference, separation at the root of perception. Our culture insists on sexual uniformity and does not acknowledge any neutral differences—only crimes, sins, diseases, and mistakes
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    —P AT C ALIFIA 1
    T his chapter is a primer of the principal issues and concepts that are familiar to members of the D&S communities. The D&S subculture has a highly sophisticated ethos to guide erotic play, which comprises ethical codes, safety rules, and communication tools. The intention of this mostly unwritten
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is to help ensure that a maximum number of people experience D&S as a positive and loving expression of sexuality. Also, as the subculture has expanded, it has developed its own philosophies and jargon.
    We feature four interviews:
    • Victoria is 29 years old and a high-school English teacher. She lives with Leonard.
    • Leonard is 50 years old and the owner of a private business.
    • Biff is 37 years old and married. An armed-forces veteran, he now works as a paramedic.
    • Genevieve Reynolds is 29 years old and works as a computer professional. She lives in California.
W HAT’S IN A W ORD?
    Redefining sadomasochism has become an important task for many D&Sers. The