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Get paid for drugged sex!

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mach2 · 08/03/2023 09:01

Well, this is a bit special:

A BBC documentary has sparked outrage after a sex therapist suggested men who have a fetish about sex with unconscious partners should be able to pay women to be drugged

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11831307/We-Need-Talk-Bill-Cosby-Sex-therapist-calls-women-drugged-money.html

Is it me or is the world getting madder?

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IcakethereforeIam · 08/03/2023 18:56

Yes, you'd like to think that the BBC didn't do clickbaity stuff like this.

raspberrywine · 08/03/2023 18:53

AlisonDonut · 08/03/2023 10:07

So not one person in the chain of 'research - prescreening - interview - film - direct - retake - edit - review - publish' thought 'hang on a minute...what are we saying here'?

I'm going out on a limb to say that the BBC to this particular "therapist" precisely because she holds such (abhorrent) views.

PopGoesTheProsecco · 08/03/2023 18:48

Completely agree @Whatwouldscullydo.

It’s vile.

Saschka · 08/03/2023 18:43

LookingOldTheseDays · 08/03/2023 17:30

Just because people do it, and just because there are some people desperate enough to agree to be paid to do it, doesn't mean it isn't exploitative and immoral.

People will sell kidneys if they're desperate enough, but that doesn't make it OK in a civilised society. The law is there to protect desperate, vulnerable people who could otherwise be exploited.

Completely agree with this.

Wellies54 · 08/03/2023 18:13

Some people seem to have no ability to ever say 'No, this is not acceptable'. Just because someone wants to have sex with an unconscious woman, just because there might be a woman who is desperate enough for money to agree, does not mean it should be allowed. It's not mean, it's not prudish, it's not trying to spoil men's fun, it's just beyond the bounds of what should ever be allowed. Just NO!

LookingOldTheseDays · 08/03/2023 17:30

LakeTiticaca · 08/03/2023 10:46

Some people may be shocked to learn what some women ( and men) will do for £££££
There's some pretty weird stuff going on out there

Just because people do it, and just because there are some people desperate enough to agree to be paid to do it, doesn't mean it isn't exploitative and immoral.

People will sell kidneys if they're desperate enough, but that doesn't make it OK in a civilised society. The law is there to protect desperate, vulnerable people who could otherwise be exploited.

EmmaEmerald · 08/03/2023 17:05

DrBlackbird · 08/03/2023 10:51

Not that I’m defending the BBC, but it was an American 4 part documentary made by someone called Walter Kamau Bell that the BBC bought. W. Kamau Bell said he made it to show how Crosby was enabled by his fame and benign persona.

Now yes, you’d think some BBC editor watched the whole series to make a judgement call on its suitability for a uk audience but not sure it’s wholly fair to criticise the BBC for this one crazy person?

Should the BBC not shown a series exposing Crosby because of this one woman? Why Bell included her is anyone’s guess.

how is the therapist presented and why are they on the show?

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 08/03/2023 17:01

I'm can't believe what I have just read. Absolutely vile

Whatwouldscullydo · 08/03/2023 16:49

I just can't with this...

How is the solution that women agree to this. Rather than men look into why such disturbing shit gets them off.

When did mutually enjoyable consensual respectful sex become something so boring and vanilla that things have to escalate to being drugged and raped in the name of not kink shaming or whatever

Oversharingnamechanged · 08/03/2023 14:43

I had a friend in my 20s who had worked as a sex worker in the field of very dark fantasies.

This friend would be "raped" whilst out walking late at night, very brutally, anally. The cost to do that to my friend was £500. This friend advertised this service online, plus other things, but this one always seemed the most severe.

Anyway, this person went through the ordeal of being raped in the park, after its finished the rapist leaves. Then meets them at the exit of the park and beats up my friend and takes the £500 back off of them.

My friend continued with sex work however this experience was incredibly traumatic and obviously my friend was actually raped, that was no role play.

It scares me to imagine anyone suggesting sex workers be even more vulnerable by being drugged.

The world is fucking terrifying.

Datun · 08/03/2023 14:18

Rainonthehorizon · 08/03/2023 13:51

I'm not the original poster but it's in episode 4, starting at 31 mins 20 secs.

Transcription based on the sub-titles:
"If we actually grappled with the fact that sex-negativity is what causes this type of behaviour, then we could create a world where, in an idyllically sex-positive world, someone is able to pay conscious women to come and be drugged so that I can get my kink out, my fetish on having sex with unconscious people, there's a consensual way to do that."

I think she does say what the DM article is saying.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0f50n4g/we-need-to-talk-about-cosby-series-1-episode-4

Right, so that's exactly what she said.

The mail is just reporting it.

BitOutOfPractice · 08/03/2023 14:17

"Sonalee is a sought-after speaker who travels internationally to curate custom visual workshops that whisper to our change-making spirit and nourish our vision for a more just future."

I'll just leave that there and collect my eyes which have rolled out of my head and across the floor.

LexMitior · 08/03/2023 14:10

What's pretty distasteful is that this woman knows there is not such an idyllic world, and the reason for that is part of the power in such a scenario where one party is drugged and cannot resist.

She smears over legal issues of consent, ongoing consent in particular. There are useful idiots all over the world, but this woman is not one of them. I know it's in the DM, but she is using her status and expertise to smear over bodily autonomy and sexual consent. Those are rules needed to prevent victimisation of vulnerable people.

Probably to some degree her job is also a manifestation of her gratification about sex.

Palmfrond · 08/03/2023 14:04

Saschka · 08/03/2023 12:28

I think it was more “this is attention-seeking clickbait” they were agreeing with…

Correct. They are spouting outrageous shite for clout, ie the kool-aid drinkers will clap their tiny hands with glee at how brave and stunning they are while the normies, left and right and in between, who register their existence will suffer a prolonged w…t…fff moment, possibly culminating in horror, rage and/or confusion.

butterfliedtwo · 08/03/2023 14:01

MistyGreenAndBlue · 08/03/2023 12:22

Sleeping Beauty www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0gkhz30&hl=en-GB&q=Sleeping+Beauty&kgs=ae15efbaf508ffdb&shndl=17&source=sh/x/kp/osrp/2

Horrible film made in 2011 about this very thing.

It's not new

The world has gone fucking mad.

Repulsive.

yourhairiswinterfire · 08/03/2023 13:55

IJustHadToLookHavingReadTheBook · 08/03/2023 13:08

I watched the documentary. That's not quite what she said. Daily Mail strikes again.

What do you mean? I just watched the clip whilst reading the DM quote. It is what she said, word for word.

EsmaCannonball · 08/03/2023 13:55

I haven't seen the documentary but I did see the video of the relevant section circulating online a few days ago. The Daily Mail has picked up the story, it hasn't invented it. Again, anything that is seen to rile the Daily Mail is judged by some people to have a value in itself. (Even if it is rapey misogyny.)

Rainonthehorizon · 08/03/2023 13:51

Datun · 08/03/2023 13:29

Having watched it, can you explain what she actually did say?

is she not advocating for women to consent to unconscious sex?

I'm not the original poster but it's in episode 4, starting at 31 mins 20 secs.

Transcription based on the sub-titles:
"If we actually grappled with the fact that sex-negativity is what causes this type of behaviour, then we could create a world where, in an idyllically sex-positive world, someone is able to pay conscious women to come and be drugged so that I can get my kink out, my fetish on having sex with unconscious people, there's a consensual way to do that."

I think she does say what the DM article is saying.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0f50n4g/we-need-to-talk-about-cosby-series-1-episode-4

Clymene · 08/03/2023 13:45

IJustHadToLookHavingReadTheBook · 08/03/2023 13:08

I watched the documentary. That's not quite what she said. Daily Mail strikes again.

That's weird because there is a clip on YouTube and which is embedded within the DM article and what she says is exactly as Bernard quoted. Are you saying the video's been doctored? Confused

Teachingteacher · 08/03/2023 13:42

ColdMeg · 08/03/2023 13:11

I am pretty sure this was the plotline for an episode of a US police/detective show some years ago.

The episode was about two men who had this fetish for having sex with their wives while they were unconscious, and the wives consented to it, but something went wrong. I can't remember whether one of the women died while drugged, or they partner-swapped without the women knowing, or something like that.

Could have been Castle, thinking about it. Or The Mentalist. It wasn't a hard cop show.

I think it was an older episode of Law & Order. Season 8 or 9 in the Lenny Briscoe days.

BoredOfThisMansWorld · 08/03/2023 13:41

Apologies if this has already been said, but I'm so sick of the phrase "sex positive" being synonymous with misogynist sex. I'm extremely fucking positive about sex thanks v much. It's fun and also free. But having tried a fair amount of it, i can conclude that sex with misogynist men isn't usually especially "positive". And why is requiring bells and whistles and dodgy power dynamics to get aroused seen as more "positive" than simply being attracted by a naked body or the act of consensually shagging?

Datun · 08/03/2023 13:29

IJustHadToLookHavingReadTheBook · 08/03/2023 13:08

I watched the documentary. That's not quite what she said. Daily Mail strikes again.

Having watched it, can you explain what she actually did say?

is she not advocating for women to consent to unconscious sex?

Lilifer · 08/03/2023 13:26

Datun · 08/03/2023 10:02

and certainly musings of this kind should not be presented uncritically on the BBC

This.

There are always going to be wackos advocating on behalf of some men's endless, and totally illegal, perversions, but to give it even a hint of legitimacy by hosting a 'discussion' on it?

They should be ashamed. And the whole country should be asking which person, specifically, signed off on it.

Time to cancel my licence 🥲

dimorphism · 08/03/2023 13:26

Ourladycheesusedatum · 08/03/2023 09:54

Nope, pretty sure we cant consent to this. No one can surely. Once you're unconscious then any consent you gave is null and void.

And can you imagine making them stick to whatever you "consented" to.
That would require an onlooker or camera running, neither of which should happen.

Jesus and an actual woman said this? My God she needs some serious help.

This.

This woman needs her license revoking. She is encouraging criminal acts.

What happens once the man decides drugged sex isn't doing it for him and this time he wants to kill the woman?

mach2 · 08/03/2023 13:19

I actually think even the majority of men would agree that this is wrong

This one finds it downright fucking creepy.

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