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Is it just whipping and spanking and apparatus? Sex?
Nope. I'd prefer good and well written conversation over a sex scene any day. The key words here are 'good' and 'well written', though. I.e., the characters need to be characters and the convo needs to be original, not just a plump gearing up to the next fuck.
It would be even better if there was humor and wit in it, but I hardly ever come across a BDSM-story with humor.

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The second part is what do people feel is "slow"? Is it that the plot is not developing quickly enough? Is it that there aren't constant BDSM 'scenes' in each paragraph? Is it that the story is long (around 60,000 words and only four chapters so far)?
To me, there are different kinds of 'slow'. A turn off kind of 'slow' is when there's a lot of unnecessary description. Like when boy and girl enter a room for a sex scene, all heated up and ready to tear their clothes off each other and then I have to read seven paragraphs on how the room is furnished and that its windows are overlooking a well tended, expansive garden with neatly trimmed bushes and a 'Wasserspiel' in the foreground.
That's yawn, skip, next book please.

Slow as in there are four chapters of character development, telling us who that boy and girl are, why they are here entering this room, how she does feel about having her hands tied in a reverse prayer for the first time ever, that's not slow at all. Provided those four chapters manage to bring them actually into life and provided I can relate (to the chick).

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Oh and what is the general feeling towards this code? Is it a turnoff? I mean who actually searches for stories that are slow? The word has negative connotations for me and I was wondering if this was the case for others as well.
No, it's not necessarily a turnoff for me. However, as I have stated above, 'slow' isn't just 'slow'. Unlike the tags 'rape' or 'nc', with which you pretty much now what to expect, 'slow' doesn't tell the reader much.
And yeah, I guess for a lot of persons it would be a turnoff.