This is just a logical progression of current anti-shame, sex positivity. Nothing is out of bounds or shameful as long as there is ‘consent’. Any fetish or kink is a private matter and anyone willing to indulge or supply ‘the goods’ ie. the body, body part, experience etc. is exercising their free will - damn it, in our fxxed up world it could be deemed an act of Feminism.
Coming soon to the BBC are ‘anti sex-shame’ campaigners like Reed Amber - she recently did a BBC Presenters course at Salford - and has featured in the Guardian Weekend Magazine. Her philosophy is that we should all be more educated and open about our kinks and fetishes. She hosts a podcast where she cheerily speaks about visiting a BDSM couple and being asphyxiated and made to cry - CNC (consensual non-consensual sex) and a tickle fetish are her own favourite things and she ‘monetises’ her tickle and foot fetishes via Only Fans and meet-ups.
She’s an immensely likeable woman and some of her content on mental health issues is great. But I am just aghast at the dissociation that goes on in her world. And that she then proselytises to her followers. She fully admits that she had early exposure to porn, but rather than examine how that may have impacted on her own sexuality and her mental health, she decides to perpetuate the idea that this kind of sexual freedom is ‘healthy’.
I'm only mentioning her, because this sex therapist seems to be from the same school and has also had her ideas helpfully broadcast by the BBC. And these ideas are seeping in to young women’s lives through relatively mainstream social media channels too. Reed was advertising Emma bed-in-a-box mattresses on her Instagram recently - complete with the strap-line “My bed is my safe space especially when it comes to pushing limits with kink”. Anything to sell a product.
And sex with a ‘consensually’ drugged woman is helping a man with a fetish, get what he wants and have no obstacle put in his way. And the woman is the willing ‘service provider’ just doing her job -‘sex work is work’.
Mainstream culture is buying into all of this and it’s terrifying.