Okay but why downvote the person trying to keep it on-topic to AskHistorians?
Because reddit
They just assumed the gender (and hight and muscularity) of the respondent and tried humiliating them.
This post raises the question: were there particular periods where BDSM was more prevalent, or has the human race always been about as sick as it is now?
Based on nothing at all except my gut feeling, I think BDSM has existed as long as there has been rope and willing participants.
The current tendency to yuck someone else’s yum can likely be pinned on puritans in the past and religious wackadoodles in the US pushing their religious wackadoodle invisible man mind games on the rest of the world.
But then again I’m just someone typing words on the internet. I may be wrong but i certainly invite correction from anyone who knows more about perversions of the past.
