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Finally something that traumatizes me, as much as my children.

In all seriousness though, my daughters moved into the same room for about a month in response to the 'Killer Clown' (pennywise etc.) stories that were doing the rounds in their elementary school.

And just to emphasize how scary stories and TV can be, I'm only now getting over my deep unease whenever I think of the scarier parts of City of Death, and Sapphire and Steel.

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It’s fascinating how differently different people react to any given content. Myself, I found The Taming Of The Shrew to be appalling, but not as appalling as the fact everyone else in the audience was laughing to it.

Likewise BDSM. Some friends of mine invited me into forums about it for dating, and I found I could not distinguish what I saw from actual abuse — I instead need to rely on the fact that I knew some of the people and they told me they had enjoyed what was done to them.

It’s like The Dress, I suppose, only disturbing/fine instead of black and blue or white and gold.

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