bdsm imagery in mainstream movies/TV

[verushka70]

Actually this is just a question: does anyone else get off on seeing male characters restrained and/or abused (or about to be) in mainstream movies or TV shows? (or even indie or foreign films) Would love examples. I gave a few in the last post, but I'll repeat some of them:

1. Any portrayal of Angel or Spike in BTVS or AtS restrained, manacled, etc. Especially shirtless.
   
2. The BTVS dream sequence where Buffy dreams she's handcuffed Spike's wrists above his head and is having sex with him, her on top.
   
3. Anthony LaPaglia (shirtless) tied by wrists (& feet, I think) to the bed by Mimi Rogers in the movie Bulletproof Heart (rose above its plot & genre, believe it or not)
   
4. Mel Gibson hanging from his wrists about to be tortured in the first Lethal Weapon (and naked to the waist)
   
5. Weevil hung by his wrists about to be beaten by his own gang in Veronic Mars ep "Rashard & Wallace Go To White Castle" (sadly, not showing the slightest bit of bodyflesh)
   
6. Russell Crowe in Gladiator, restrained by his wrists so evil Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) can "soften him up" before the big gladiator competition (sadly, entirely clothed)
   
7. Spock breaking his bonds in the original Star Trek ep "Amok Time" (again, clothed... booo...)
   
8. Oh, pick any Forever Knight episode where Nick is restrained and breaks his bonds... or LaCroix, too, for that matter (all, lamentably, clothed as far as I can remember).
   

Now that I think about it, writers/irectors/producers must get off on this too, or must know some of us in the audience do. Why else would they constantly show these guys shirtless while restrained and/or abused??

Now, some people would call me sick, and I suppose I wouldn't argue because it's just an opinion and everyone's entitled to theirs. But if I'm a sick fuck -- and I'm not saying I'm not, I just feel I'm a rather well adjusted one -- at least I've never done anything like this to anyone... at least, not to anyone who didn't want it or specifically ask for it, and I don't mean that figuratively, I mean they asked literally. Yay consensual adult behavior.