[QUOTE=prey4me]I don't see why so many of you are associating --even equating--blackmail and humiliation. Certainly, they can be combined in many plots and scenaria, but they are not equivalent, and one does not necessarily involve the other.


I don't think we are equating the two. The discussion just driftet from humiliation to blackmail because in the context of erotic fiction blackmail always leads to humiliation. Have you EVER read a blackmail story without humiliation? I haven't (and it's not for lack of reading ).

Humiliation can well stand on it's own, but blackmail seems to be tied to humiliation, at least in the dirty minds of our authors.

Satan_Klaus