Programme on SM, ITV, 11pm

[ciphergoth]

11.00-11.30pm, ITV London: Pleasure Seekers. People who enjoy sado-masochism talk about their passion including a couple who road-test a new whip.

We (ergotia and I) reckon we'll see:

• A mid-thirties transvestite who looks like a glamorous secretary, and is a web designer
• A well-preserved hard-faced mid-forties blonde called Margaret living in the suburbs with Master Doug (who is an in-house accountant in a firm that makes lawnmowers, and is really ugly), wearing hideous leathers
• Detailed coverage of a fetish that no-one we know does
• Someone who runs a sex shop showing you their crap handcuffs in a very annoying voice
• Voiceover by a crap psychologist
• A professional dominatrix
• A tame, lame stage show, possibly featuring some very half-hearted girl-on-girl action
• No really good-looking people who are not in the sex industry
• No queers, apart from maybe some women who swing
• No switches
• No-one really smiling and expressing a sense of joy.

And I would really love to be wrong about this sort of thing!

Comments

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

My bets:
Margaret will actually be called Donna or Sally
Ann Summers will be featured
A dominatrix will explain that her male clients 'just can't ask their wives for this sort of thing'
There will be a pair of young pierced lesbians with foreign accents, because they've been in the last dozen telly progs on anything to do with sex
That Alex bloke with the bullwhips
Lots of overtanned people in their 40s with dyed hair (her) or toupee (him) who have been swingers and now go to Torture Garden
Obligatory students who say 'It's just a bit of fun, innit'
Everyone else will take it very very seriously and earnestly

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

I just saw a mullet. You never guessed there'd be a mullet!

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I just came late (narf! narf!) & missed it. I wonder if it was on TV up here?

I'm guessing there were no switches, either... ah well, back to my imagination...

[vampwillow]

Only read these posts with 1 minute to go ... missed the pair of pierced lesbians, I'm sorry to say <g?

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

It was at least mentioned once, but only when one guy said he'd tried and it wasn't for him...

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

no crap psychologist, but there were mullets. That was a pretty dire show, really. That fake german accent. ugh.

The transexual school-mistress seemed nice, though, and didn't seem to be putting on a face for the cameras quite as much as doms on such programs do.

Scores

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

The people: our predictions here were way too precise to hope for an exact match, but we got some matches.

We got the male-dom female-sub couple, but they were *much* better than I'd feared - not especially good looking, but charming and coming across as competent, serious players, not too cheesy. I liked them.

We got a TS woman (though I don't think it was mentioned that she was TS) and Alistair's job was as dull as we'd predicted Master Doug's would be. The cheesy dom was more cheesy than I dared fear. Bets taken on where she's from - Darlington?

• Detailed coverage of a fetish that no-one we know does - fair play to them, they had the decency to cover a fetish that's actually fairly common.
  
• Someone who runs a sex shop showing you their crap handcuffs in a very annoying voice - thankfully not!
  
• Voiceover by a crap psychologist - thankfully not!
  
• A tame, lame stage show, possibly featuring some very half-hearted girl-on-girl action - thankfully not!
  
• No really good-looking people who are not in the sex industry - check!
  
• No queers, apart from maybe some women who swing - check!
  
• No switches - check!
  
• No-one really smiling and expressing a sense of joy. - thanks to Liz and Chris for confounding my expectations here!
  

Overall slightly better than I'd feared, but still essentially being "the usual crap".

Please can we see some young people, good looking people, or switches on these programmes sometime please?

Re: Scores

[deviblue.livejournal.com]

ok.....what the hell is a switch?
and if you say something for turning lights on and off i...will...slap you

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

...and it was used as a verb, not a noun

"I tried switching [roles], but didn't like it"

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Reminded me of Bob Downe. Nice though, yes.

Re: Scores

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

You mean there are good looking people in the BDSM community?

*ducking and running*

Re: Scores

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

Someone who "switches" between top and bottom, eg between the sadist and masochist or dominant and submissive roles.

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[venta.livejournal.com]

Bets taken on where she's from - Darlington?

Er... is there something I should know about my hometown ? Is it noted for bad doms ? (Unless it was just an accent thing - I missed the program...)

Re: Scores

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

It's just quite markedly not in Germany. You missed her cod-German accent...

Re: Scores

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Now if dominatrices in England have cod-German accents, and in the US they have cod-upper-crust-English accents (and call themselves Lady Heather etc), does that mean that Germany is full of dominatrices with cod-American accents?

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[babysimon]

Always pleased to see that plural.

Oh, and probably yes.

Re: Scores

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

i...will...slap you

- in a nice way? *g*

(what gnomatron said. I'm very decidedly a switch, and nearly everyone I play with switches to some extent.)

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[the-beast.livejournal.com]

wow... like some kind of wonderfully neat cultural trade agreement :)