So most people would probably label me as a SJW and theyd pretty much be right. That being the case, I get a little uncomfortable with the word slave. In basically any vanilla case, I hope we can all agree slavery is super fucked up. Human trafficking both terrifies me and makes my blood boil, and americas history with slavery reminds me of how horrible racism is in this country.
In any case, when I hear the word in a non vanilla setting, I cant help but react in a similar way, especially if theres talk about lack of consent, which Ive seen in some BDSM porn. I acknowledge that master/slave relationships can be and probably mostly are perfectly morally fine, and im not even trying to kinkshame, but slavery as a word means so much to me and it just feels so wrong to me to see cases where slavery is treated as a highly realistic façade intended to make things hotter.
I dont know if having a master/slave relationship of my own would help with this stigma or not, so only time will tell.
