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In fiction, people who enjoy [[BDSM]] have a tendency to be intellectuals. (This correlation may have some truth, [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.
In some works, [[Brains and Bondage]] will take the form of waxing poetic about pain or submission. In some [[Anti Intellectualism|Anti Intellectual]] works, it will instead be used as a blunt tool to make intellectuals look bad by invoking prejudice [[Abomination Accusation Attack|to make them seem "abnormal"]].
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* Nana of ''[[Nana to Kaoru]]'' is basically a female [[The Ace|ace]] - on the student council, athletic, beautiful and a top student. When [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Kaoru's]] mother confiscates his bondage stuff and hands it to her for safekeeping -- well, we won't spoil it. Suffice to say she finds that bondage clears her head like nothing else because she can step outside what everyone ''thinks'' she should be, and as a result her grades go up. Brains + bondage = More brains?
** And Tachibana, the sex shop owner and {{spoiler|personal slave to Kaoru's favorite author}}, went to graduate school at Todai, the most prestigious university in Japan.
* [[Hot Witch|Ruby]] from ''[[Rosario
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', the character Lady Lys tends toward philosophical musing when it comes to pain.
** For the record, she is a demon and pain harvested from human souls and refined into a powder-like substance is a powerful narcotic for her kind; it's both the main currency and the most common form of recreation in Hell - the actual torture is just a job for most demons.
* In ''[[Global Frequency]]'' one of the organization's top scientific consultants is never shown out of his gimp mask.
* When [[No Name Given|355]] sends Yorick for therapy in ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' it turns out that the process is basically an extended BDSM session with the therapist.
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* ''[[Kushiel's Legacy]]'' is made of this trope. Terre D'Ange is by and large highly accepting of any sexual kinks, and while there's less talk among the general public about the S&M practices, they're also considered sacred. This view is magnified exponentially by the main character, who experiences pain as pleasure (the mark of her patron god). She is a high class prostitute, and engages in a wide range of masochistic sexual encounters. Many of these are portrayed as loving, cleansing, or just downright fun. The negative BDSM scenes are a result of true malice on the part of her client, and are portrayed as perversions of the kink, rather than the entirety of it. Moreover, Phedre is extremely intelligent, and the books often wax philosophical on the nature of pain, pleasure, and sexuality.
* Tarl Cabot of ''[[Gor]]'' is a Professor on Earth. Unsurprising, as he is a [[Marty Stu]] [[Author Avatar]].
* Vishous of the ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'' is a sexual dominant. It's not until the end of his book that he allows himself to be the one tied up and caned.
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{{quote|'''Doctor''': Why would you even ''have'' handcuffs?
'''River Song''': Spoilers! }}
* Probably skating the line here, but in ''[[Farscape]]'' you have [[Wicked Cultured]] [[Magnificent Bastard]] Scorpius who ''really'' has a thing for black leather and masochistic tendencies. Yes ''that'' way. However, this being ''[[Farscape]]'', there are a ''lot'' of very intelligent people/aliens enjoying ''really'' kinky stuff. There is a reason it's been described as an American man's descent into the Australian BDSM scene.
** Scorpius isn't a stretch at all. The first (and only, IIRC) time Scorpius and Sikozu are...intimate...onscreen involves Sikozu sitting on Scorpy's lap while he wraps a rope around her neck. Yeah.
** In the episode "Crackers Don't Matter," the mental clone of Scorpius implanted in Crichton's brain ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), which had been previously encouraging him to slaughter his shipmates, advises him instead to tie [[Ms. Fanservice|Chiana]] up and " save her for dessert."
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