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Please note this episode discusses sex, so listen appropriately.

Not one for the kiddos in the car, probably.

I think I've had sort of lingering doubts about the kinks scene for a few years,

and it's just built up over time. And then there's sort of like a crunch point where you get

the opportunity to leave.

And it's almost like leaving like a bad employer or something like that.

You don't realize how bad it is until you fully out the situation.

And you're like, oh, my God.

Welcome to was a Annault. I'm Liz Ayakuzzi.

And me, I'm Tyler Meissam.

And this is a show that gives voices to those who are in cults or cultic environments, which brings us to today's episode.

Okay, we had today's guest write us all the way from across the pond, the UK,

and she wrote us this.

I've recently left the kink scene after almost a decade of being in this subculture slash cult.

Long story short, the BDSM subculture is little more than a front for abuse and exploitation there's a lot of parallels with regular whatever they are cults the party line you have to believe the softening slash blurring of boundaries until you accept quote normal things you regularly would not the love bombing the hierarchy of the sexual exploitation, and the hiding of abuse.

The email, of course, goes on, but I just wanted to share that with you guys to set the stage here a bit.

Right. And some people listening might be like, well, that's not a cult, but they all signed up for that.

Or it's a subculture, not a cult.

But that made us think, what's the line?

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