If you are writing a horror book, you gotta find a variety of ways to scare people. Sex often triggers a select group of readers.
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What icks me out is when they make an evil character LGBTQ or kinky.
I recently heard about how the Hellraiser movies helped represent the kinky community
So many of us loved that film without quite being able to say why.
Misrepresent, you mean? Yeah, the Cenobites are dressed up as kinksters, and that's done to play upon the ick reaction that the mainstream has towards kink. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about, and it's probably the reason why their outfits are much less BDSM in the reboot.
Clive Barker says that the story is him working out his feelings about discovering he’s gay, and his experiences at BDSM nightclubs
Sounds likely. I don't have any reason to doubt him. I'm aware of the themes in Hellraiser. Seen the movies, read the book. (The first one, anyway.) It's pretty obvious. It's not subtle. The whole "person seeks out extremes of sensation and winds up with much more than they bargained for" is a recurring trope.
That doesn't change the fact that the bad guys are dressed kinky, and no, they don't use safe words. It's supposed to freak you out. In fact, I would even say that Hellraiser is one of the worst in that regard.
Is this from the fable?
Snortin' Whiskey, Drinkin' Cocaine.
Well, Coca Cola...
What was acceptable in the past is no longer acceptable. There are people that can't accept that.
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Paedophilia?
Cocaine?
Maybe a fleeting dream or memory he had as a teen where he was part of a gangbang?
there are people being murdered in this story as well, so he must want to murder someone too right?
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I will admit I've had my suspicions about him for a long time. He's also written a short story of a child being raped outside a library and in another he went into great descriptive detail about the genitalia of a young girl who is lost in the woods. This is after she drank water from a stream resulting in exposure to Cholera.