BDSM & Jerry Springer... oy vay

[mythicat]

In today's show: My husband makes my cocoa every night!

That is so wrong...those people should be ashamed of themselves!

[allalone46]

Pepole think it is real, and the produsers put that on thinking it is what people want. Oh well.

[mythicat]

Pepole think it is real, and the produsers put that on thinking it is what people want. Oh well.

Some people think it's real. I would reckon that the vast majority don't. But apparently it is what a lot of people want or the show would have been axed long, long ago.

[Finding_Fantasy]

Shows like Jerry Springer are all about sensationalism. Rarely do they concern themselves with facts or guests that actually seem to have a clue between them. The show that Spike refers to here in Canada is called Kink and it goes into their everyday lives as well as their d/s ones. If people wouild watch stuff like that instead of Jerry Springer and the like, there would be a better name for d/s, I'm sure.

The only talk show that I watch is Dr. Phil when I can cacth it because he seems more concerned about actually helping people than what will get him the highest rating.

[AndrewBlack]

The 'BDSM couple' on Jerry Springer are likely to be as fake or dysfunctional as every other couple he gets on his nauseating little programme. I mean the vanilla couples are dreadful, everyone on the show is awful, it stands to reason that any BDSM representation is going to be of the same quality. Does anyone intelligent actually watch it though? And if so WHY?!!

[Mobius]

Many times on the springer show the couples are actors.
I will some times find the same couple that were on springer I would find on Montel or Jenny jones. Well any way I did until her show bit the dust.

Jerry sringer is much like wrestling. You know it is fake but you watch it to find out what the audiance will do.

[slavelucy]

That is so wrong...those people should be ashamed of themselves!

ROFL! This really made me laugh.....these twisted fiends, making each other's cocoa *much shaking of head and clicking of tongue*

In terms of Pandora's post, whether or not those people were actors, there's one point which remains the same and which winds me up a bit...and that is the fact that millions of people saw those two as a representation of BDSM...which seriously sucks.

Another point which i liked, was:

I think he was one of these little insecure twits that uses d/s to get laid and to feed his inner kinkster.

Grrr...now, this is seriously one of my personal pet peeves, people who masquerade as dominants in order to get sex or to try and quench a kink that they can't place; BDSM kinda becomes a handy peg for them to hang their coats on...and meanwhile, our reputation, as a group takes yet another blow.

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[mythicat]

millions of people saw those two as a representation of BDSM...which seriously sucks.

Those people have oh so many! issues of their own, that I really don't care what they think of me.

people who masquerade as dominants in order to get sex or to try and quench a kink that they can't place

I dunno, I've always found them lots of fun to toy with.... :[

[Pandora's Box]

Yes... I do know that most of the people on that show run the gamut from liars to attention whores to white trash. I also realize that even if there is a grain of truth in every story on there, it is sensationalized to the extreme.

But it still bothers me that those images were portrayed. Not just the image, but of the substance as well. From the ultra tacky dungeon gear wearing "dominant" to the "put your collar on now, bitch".

It was like a double whammy. Of course, it's not like I expect high and lofty things from the Jerry Springer Show. Just the opposite. But it's not the show that bothers me.

Like it or not, all walks of life watch Springer. The show is exported across the globe, all socioeconomic groups, all sexual orientations, all class groups. I've seen the rich and classy hooked on this show just as much as the white trash. It's reach is amazing.

And this is what they picked up from it.

With any luck, they'll have thought it was a joke too. Granted, I wasn't laughing. But it was a joke.

[allalone46]

It still makes use look like some sick freaks. And people will think that everyone in this lifestyle is like that.

[mythicat]

It still makes use look like some sick freaks. And people will think that everyone in this lifestyle is like that.

According to that show, everyone everywhere is a sick freak. Which places us well within the norm either way.

[allalone46]

According to that show, everyone everywhere is a sick freak. Which places us well within the norm either way.

In that show thay are more freek than sick. And no way are anyone that is realy in this life that freaky.

[MrJerseyGuy]

I had to chuckle as I read this because I have Springer on in the background (New season and all). And in thinking about it, I'm probably more embarrassed that I watch Springer everyday than I am about being into bdsm!

I guess one of the advantages of getting a little older is that I couldn't care less about most people's opinion. I think bdsm is one of those things where...either you get it or you don't. If most people don't, that's their loss. I actually get a kick out of it when vanilla friends are over because they have to walk through the bedroom to get to the bathroom. Not once has anyone asked about the big I-bolts sticking out of the walls next to the bed...but you know damn well they noticed! My cleaning girl & her boyfriend have been good friends of my g/f & I for years and she has never said one word about it! (Even though I know she's dying to ask).

Back on topic...as much as I hate to admit that I am one of them...the opinion of your average Springer fan really wouldn't mean much to me one way or the other.

Oh...and for the record, I live in a condo, not a trailer!

[GaryWilcox]

I think a lot of people watch Springer to feel better about themselves, kind of like listening to the blues. "At least I'm not being jilted by my cousin for my aunt..."

[AndrewBlack]

I know what you mean, look at these dysfunctional fuckers. It just makes me feel sickened though. I don't like the 'we can help these people by getting them to talk about their problems' pretence that gives it a misleading sincerity when actually it's just pure spectacle. Putting a load of volatile characters together for a 'therapeutic time' (of oh, about 15 minutes should be enough to 'help' them sort their extensive problems out?!) where we witness the lowest form of human interaction gently goaded on by our 'well meaning' host. If he really cared about people he'd do something that might actually help them. What a fucking arsehole, I'd headbutt him if I every saw him. ( That's one of those, 'I'm not a violent person but...', comments I know, but you have to admit he'd be pretty high on your list of people you'd enjoy beating the crap out of for their 'services to humanity' )

[rallan]

I was always under the impression that Jerry Springer was real. Or at least real in the sense that it doesn't hire actors or give the guests scripts. But it's like Springer himself has said when he's being interviewed on other shows. Let's imagine that only one percent of the public as a whole are involved in something Jerry wants to do a show on. And only one in a thousand of them is actually willing to go on the Jerry Springer show and talk about it. At the end of the day that's only one person in a hundred thousand that he's got a chance in hell of getting on any given show. But in a country of almost three hundred million people, it means that for any given show his producers could theoretically get a few thousand potential guests to choose from, and all they've got to do is weed through them to pick the most stupid, sensational, and all round idiotic candidates they can find. And considering the massive amount of money that show makes I don't find it very hard to believe that they've got people all over the country to make it easier for wannabe guests to try their luck.



Rallan