Warning: bondage content. If bondage content frightens you, angers your, or arouses strange feelings you’d just rather not deal with right now, thankyewverymuch, do not continue reading this thread. I will now proceed, with quasi-scientific seriousness, to elucidate a series of principles for bondage scenes in mainstream movies and TV shows. Some of these principles are pretty much self-evident, others may require further elucidation. I’ll leave it to you to judge which is which.
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[li]The purpose of bondage scenes is to ramp up the drama by making the damsel appear vulnerable and helpless. Even in a comedy scene, this principle holds, the vulnerability and helplessness is just played differently for comedy.[/li][li]The more vulnerable and helpless the damsel appears to be, the more powerful and effective the scene. This is especially true if there is some imminent peril at hand.[/li][li]Bondage scenes are dramatic because while they constitute violence visited upon a person in themselves, they also generally contain the threat of far greater violence – torture, rape, or death. Consensual sexual bondage scenes, however, are outside the purview of this rule.[/li][li]The more distressed the damsel appears to be, the more effective the scene is dramatically.[/li][li]Elements of a bondage scene that make a damsel appear sexy increases the dramatic impact of a scene (making the threat of molestation seem more imminent).[/li][/ol]
From these apparently innocent principles I will proceed to deduce a series of rules for mainstream bondage scenes which will make the meek and the bluenosed flush with outrage, thus greatly increasing my chances of obtaining world domination ™ this year.
