Best of the kinky rest – 4: “BDSMers, animal killers”

Something of a debate followed from the post by Insatiabear that I featured in my previous ‘Best of the kinky rest’ selection. I’m not going to comment on feminist blogger Meghan Murphy’s views, but I wanted to feature one of the comments in response to her post.

It’s from a Marv Wheale, and I can only assume it’s a spoof:

BDSM adherents are resolute that kinks are only forms of play acting and simulation and do not portray the actors’ attitudes and conduct in the real world. Nonetheless there is cruelty that occurs in BDSM that is undeniable: the use of animal skins (leather) in the performances.

Utilizing the skins of animals for clothing and paraphernalia turns animals into objects for pleasure rather than treating them as whole beings with rights. Why is it that players don’t question the objectification and killing of animals for fun and style?

To be fair people throughout society use animal skins (and flesh). But BDSM further legitimizes it and the makes particular use of fetishizing them. If we can’t see the disparaging treatment of animals in our games and lifestyles is it also possible we can’t see the harmful treatment of humans in them, as well as the reverse?

That told us, eh? Surely this has to be an incredibly witty example of the age-old debating tactic of reductio ad absurdum – in which case it totally deserves its place here. And if it’s genuine? Well, I think it needs to be included in any case, as an example of the sort of hostility we face for our sexual preferences, predilections, orientation from the hypocritical holier-than-thou one-strand-of-feminist camp.