BDSM in main stream movies

Op de set sCP2-13-2015
I have always maintained that there is a larger interest in Bondage than it's niche culture would suggest. In my college years, I worked in a movie theater, and whenever a bondage scene occurred in a main stream movie, you were certain to experience a change in atmosphere in the public. There would be snickering, laughing, sometimes cheering. It would effect large parts of the audience, every time again.
An even stronger argument may be the big theater movies that actually had BDSM as their subject, and there have been a few over the years: L'Histoire d'O (and its rather weaker part two, from 1984), Nine and a half weeks, and more recently, the Secretary and of course Fifty shades of Grey. These were all successful with the general public.

I hesitate to include Pasolini's Salo, because I think that hadn't something to do with BDSM as much as with cruelty and fascism. But still, it had its admirers.
One rather current development also underlines the way in which BDSM gets more accepted, all be it hesitantly, I think. It is the fact that, rather close to each other, two serious documentaries were produced about two of the largest BDSM sites there have ever been.
"Graphic Sexual Horror" from 2009, was directed by Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell, and premiered at the Slam Dance Festival. It describes the rise and downfall of one of the most infamous BDSM websites ever: Insex.com, and is a collection of interviews with its founder Brent Scott, a.k.a. PD, and numerous models and co-workers. It gives a very nuanced insight in the way PD worked, and the way things developed, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
The other one, "Kink", from 2013, is directed by Christina Voros, and produced by a big name in Hollywood: James Franco. This gives the viewer a look behind the scenes of arguably the largest BDSM company that exists today: Kink.com, in San Francisco. Founded by Peter Ackworth, it now presents a whole string of websites like Hogtied, Device Bondage and Bound Gods.
Now these two documentaries may never reach a large public, but the fact that the subject is chosen, and that these are well put together, not cheesy, and in depth productions tells me, that our community has made another step upwards in society.

Coco

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