Laundry Day - Shrink Fan Comics

[Doll-Elf]

Originally Posted by TB Tabby

Things have changed since I first got into SW. There was a time when sexual assault and torture porn was the norm for SW material, and anyone who objected was shouted down with "it's just a story, lighten up."

I think the issue then was the audience of SW at them time, focused by repressed men who wanted power and control over someone weakened.

You can actually see this very well in some of the biggest names and works done, such as Minimizer. (I am not saying he was repressed, I am saying that a lot of art done by or for Minimizer had women being controlled, trapped, or most popularly, taped and stripped.)

Naturally the most vocal supporters of the S/A and torture porn tried to dominate the subculture but were eventually made less of a voice when newer writers and enthusiasts joined.

However, their damage to the community is still heavy as themes of willing participants or those who enjoy it are not nearly as common and shrinking is seen as a frightening experience where people are fighting for survival.

Some of the focus has also shifted from writings about being the one causing the woman to shrink to new writings about the woman's pov on shrinking.

[zdarkness]

Originally Posted by Doll-Elf

I think the issue then was the audience of SW at them time, focused by repressed men who wanted power and control over someone weakened.

That's a little bit extreme, DE. Granted the very nature of shrinking as a TF makes it gravitate naturally towards power-play, but I think it more has to do with more people starting to recognize how fucked up those kinds of stories are. It's not just in fetish art/stories but in media in general. Depicting rape isn't treated with the same flippancy as it was 10, even 5 years ago.