A new survey indicates the novel Fifty Shades of Grey has sparked more interest in the practice of BDSM, but still little inclination to try the rough stuff in personal relationships. The online poll was conducted by Vivid Entertainment and popular online adult site XCritic.com.
Of the predominantly male survey respondents, 46% had tried some form of BDSM, while 54% had not. The survey results showed that the book had spurred curiosity to try BDSM in just 20% of its respondents while 36% had already tried it, but 44 percent had no curiosity about it. And just 24% know people that have tried BDSM while 76% know no one who has tried it as a result of the publicity surrounding the book that is scheduled to debut as a movie in February 2015.
Of those respondents to the survey who had tried BDSM, 46% had tried bondage, 39% tried master / slave role playing and 21% tried flogging. And of those who say they might try it, 40% would want to be dominant partner while 23% would want to be submissive and 37% would want to switch back and forth between those roles.
Nearly 48% of those surveyed said they had not suggested BDSM to their partner, 21% were either curious or even enthusiastic about it, and just 10% said they “hate the idea.”
Despite their reluctance to try it personally, 68% of the respondents believe ’Fifty Shades of Grey’ has made BDSM “more mainstream and acceptable,” compared with 32% who do not believe it has.
The complete survey results are available at: http://www.xcritic.com/index.php?ID=4265
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