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{{quote|"''My thoughts ran to Rousseau and Swinburne, both masochists, both geniuses, suffering their mistresses' cruel lashes even as they cried out for perfect enlightenment. Perhaps the body is not our being's basest part after all. Perhaps it is the royal road to knowledge.''"|'''Presley Abbott''', ''The Oxford Girl''}}
In fiction, people who enjoy [[BDSM]] have a tendency to be intellectuals. (This correlation may have some truth, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140719080153/http://gloria-brame.com/therapy/bdsmsurveyresults.html one survey] found 20% of practitioners have post-graduate education.) Thus, an interest in BDSM can be used to underscore the character's intellectual side - making '''Brains and Bondage''' a mostly "positive stereotype" likely to be used on protagonists and other sympathetic characters.
However, it can also be used as a way to establish a villain as [[Wicked Cultured]]. This easily drifts into the [[Bondage Is Bad]] kind of [[Unfortunate Implications]], unless counterexamples are provided or the [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]] trope comes into play.
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