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This is why consent, autonomy and boundaries should be the core of kink (and relationships or intimacy in general) and nothing should be able to supercede them and anybody involved should uphold these things.
In other words, have some control (of yoursel{f/ves}) but don’t try to control others in ways they haven’t explicitly agreed to and even then they should be able to exit any such agreements at any time without punishment.
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I dunno, I don’t think stories are reflective of the artist’s true beliefs necessarily, whether beliefs we agree or disagree with.
The problem is that most people don’t think about these things because they are unthinkable and go against their nature, and many people’s inherent state is to assume the best of people because if they didn’t nothing would get done that benefitted anybody.
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Okay, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with fetishes or kinks as long as they’re consented to. I don’t think putting them in a story is necessarily wrong or indicative of any larger problem with a person necessarily, only if they then do them non consensually in real life is it a problem.
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This is a very lukewarm defense, but this subject is something of a trope that shows up in various artists’ works. On the top of my head, I can say that it is a subject in a short story by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, as well as in Osamu Tezuka’s “Ayako”, both published way before Gaiman’s “Sandman” story. So I personally do not attribute too much importance to his story. His actions speak for themselves.
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Wow that was quite a read.
Absolutely brutish for Gaiman and Palmer to take advantage of vulnerable people like that.
Disgusting.
