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'''Willow''' (pouting about currently being single): Everyone's getting spanked but me.|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "The I In Team"}}

Sometimes sexualities such as sadomasochism and fetishism come into play simply as a kinky counterpart of [[Bi the Way]]: The character just happens to be into BDSM (or similar). That is, any variant of Bondage (as in tying each other up with ropes or handcuffs), Dominance-games, and/or Sado-Masochism (as in spanking and such). The origin of the name is a merging of the old terms Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, and Sadism & Masochism. No big deal is made out of it, at least not by the main characters. This can be a good excuse to play with gender roles and [[Property of Love|power dynamics]], an excuse to get the [[Heteronormative Crusader~~|Heteronormative Crusaders~~]] all riled up, or simply a way to put a character in an unexpected situation or let a conversation take an unexpected turn.

Sometimes sexualities such as sadomasochism and fetishism come into play simply as a kinky counterpart of [[Bi the Way]]: The character just happens to be into BDSM (or similar). That is, any variant of Bondage (as in tying each other up with ropes or handcuffs), Dominance-games, and/or Sado-Masochism (as in spanking and such). The origin of the name is a merging of the old terms Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, and Sadism & Masochism. No big deal is made out of it, at least not by the main characters. This can be a good excuse to play with gender roles and [[Property of Love|power dynamics]], an excuse to get the [[Heteronormative Crusader]]s all riled up, or simply a way to put a character in an unexpected situation or let a conversation take an unexpected turn.

While usually about individual characters, this trope can also be a characteristic of a [[Free-Love Future]] or similar world. In these cases, the fact that kinky sexuality is [[People Sit on Chairs|so normal that no one thinks twice about it]] in this world is often used as a way of pointing out how different that world is from our own.

People playing with [[Casual Kink]] do it [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]], and are likely to have a [[Safe Word]]. People who see a little bit of what they are doing, without getting the whole picture, might sometimes make the classic [[Abuse Mistake]].

People playing with '''Casual Kink''' do it [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]], and are likely to have a [[Safe Word]]. People who see a little bit of what they are doing, without getting the whole picture, might sometimes make the classic [[Abuse Mistake]].

[[Casual Kink]] is one way to portray (or show interest in) a [[Fetish]].

'''Casual Kink''' is one way to portray (or show interest in) a [[Fetish]].

Compare and contrast the tropes where kinkiness is used to indicate that a character is [[Brains and Bondage|cool]] or a [[Bondage Is Bad|bad person]].

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* ''[[Dilbert]]'' once chatted with a woman calling herself Mistress Cruella. Afterward he looked quite startled. What she said to him was, of course, left to the reader's imagination.

* ''[[Pondus]]'' has a lot of this. Often used as a tool to create awkward situations (Jocke and Camilla walking in on Jocke's mother and stepfather doing a scene), but sometimes just for cuteness (Pondus wife bringing home her nurse uniform from the hospital in return for him taping her favorite [[Soap Opera]]).

* In the first album of ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', [[Casual Kink]] and [[Bondage Is Bad]] are both expressed as attitudes held by characters: Jill hold a little speach about how she's not into BDSM herself but doesn't mind it as long as it's [[SSC|consensual]] - while Elaine write a [[Show Within a Show|story within the story]] where her way of establishing the bad guy as bad is to state that he fantasizes about three creepy things, one of them being tied up women. (The other two are money and selling drugs. It should be noted that since this is in the first issue, Elaine is still an immature 12-years-old inexperienced psychic.)

* In the first album of ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', Casual Kink and [[Bondage Is Bad]] are both expressed as attitudes held by characters: Jill hold a little speach about how she's not into BDSM herself but doesn't mind it as long as it's [[SSC|consensual]] - while Elaine write a [[Show Within a Show|story within the story]] where her way of establishing the bad guy as bad is to state that he fantasizes about three creepy things, one of them being tied up women. (The other two are money and selling drugs. It should be noted that since this is in the first issue, Elaine is still an immature 12-years-old inexperienced psychic.)

* When [[Deadpool]] finds [[Psycho for Hire|his business]] unexpectedly booming, he hires an assistant to keep his schedule straight. She also helps design several new costumes for him. When she shows the sketches, Deadpool asks why some of the costumes have high heels. She responds "I'm kinky".

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