Quote Originally Posted by Satan_Klaus

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
Right. Being in the power of someone who has compromising knowlege ... is by defintion humilating. While I cuold perhaps imagine a story (or fantasy) involving blackmail but not humilation I realy beleive it is not posible in practice. The two just go together and blackmail stories are often writen with express purpose to explore humilation.
(see kinkabella above for some sublte insights)

Humilation on the other hand can be subdived into groups Of course it highly individual but, at least in fiction, it will always involve other people. First one then more and more to greater joy of drooling readers. And of course you ALWAYS need contrast. What wolud be the point of parading her naked in nudist colony? (If there was something else to see - that would be another thing entirely) But if she was to wear drab (or drag ) clothes in the said colony ...