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bioemerl  ·  3463 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is an animal’s marked intelligence really reason enough not to eat it?

    Can you clarify on how BDSM is not "hurting someone"?

A couple that does BDSM are not going to be negatively effected in their lives. Heck, they may be positively effected from their kinky sexy times.

    It is undeniable that these practices cause pain

Pain is a feeling, being hurt is more than pain.

    because after all a cutter for instance is cutting him or herself with consent, but we do not allow that in society regardless.

A cutter risks killing themselves. It also not really looked well upon based on the whole fact that "cutting" is a very bad way of dealing with negative emotions. Cutting is a sign that something is fucked up and needs fixed. There is a reason it's teens with little emotional control that do "cut".