CSI last Thursday

[Lady_Starr]

For those who don't watch CSI, it's a crime drama that focuses on the lab-techs.

This Thursday, they dealt with a BDSM-focused crime. BostonBoy and I watched it together (via YM) and I wanted to share one of the scenes here.

The male is learning to be a Dom. He's hired Lady Heather to teach him. She leads a girl in, the lower half of her face masked/gagged. Lady Heather tells the man that "You will only control her as well as you are able to read her." There's about 5 seconds of eye-contact between those two, then he backhands her across the mouth.

Some of you are probably saying "OMG! Why did he hit her?!" There was nothing this young lady had done--could have done--to give offense. This man struck her because he could not read her. Acting from a sense of frustration and anger, he struck her.

Well, the crime involved actually centered around this man's absolute failure to understand Domination or how to elicit submission.

CSI has had Lady Heather on before; she's a recurring character. In fact, this series has one of the most sympathetic approaches to BDSM, with the "different strokes for different folks" approach. On Law And Order--which has also had BDSM-related crimes--it's much less sympathetic, treated as a ugly perversion.

So...we're making...progress?

[spankme]

There was a thread awhile back discussing more "positive" media portrayals of the bdsm world. i commented on the last episode of CSI before reruns. It clearly left us with the impression that the main character had a thing for Lady Heather. In the closing scene, you see him sitting outside of her "house" looking contemplative. Will he or wont he? You can tell he wants it (or does he want her) ...

Hopefully, to be continued.

-- spank

ps. i like Law and Order a lot. But i think they've done a poor job of separating the child molesters from people like us. My sense is that most of us are ordinary suburban middle-class types, and the closest we ever get to violence and the law is a fender-bender when someone runs a red light down at the intersection.