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Yeah maybe. I can't know completely for sure if that was the case. I agree with the rest of your comment, honestly I haven't really thought about some of the more historical examples, it's not a kink I have explored whatsoever but I do have related bdsm interests and see how a kneejerk reaction to this could personally affect things I do like if people start emotionally reacting to content that involves violence against women... A lot of women are into it.
It would not be that hard to use examples at the extreme edge of this topic that generate a visceral emotional reaction from people to push through vague legislation that results in sweeping bans against all of it. This can end up controlling women's sexuality under the guise off protecting women.
Exactly, like I do think there is to some extent a categorical difference between abrupt, "realistic" violent fetishes that hinge more on like control and destruction from the perspective of someone enacting or observing it, and more stylized and drawn out violent fetishes that hinge more on the idea of the event as something scary and/or painful that's being experienced and often mix in a focus on feelings of helplessness or acceptance, but at the same time that's really just a fuzzy spectrum along multiple axes and imo trying to draw some definitive line as to what's actually problematic and what's too fantastical or otherwise harmless would be impossible for me and I dread the idea of someone who knows literally nothing about the subject trying to do it because they would just do the Amazon thing of banning any kind of written kink content rougher than a light spanking which all characters painstakingly consented to in front of a notary ahead of time (unless of course it comes from a published "legitimate" novel which can be as awful as it pleases however it pleases).
Not to mention that guys can be absolute creeps about it no matter where on the spectrum of realism vs fantasy or objectifying vs experiencing a given niche falls, to say nothing of how it seems the "milder" a fetish gets the more outspokenly aggressive and weird about it they get all the way up to the completely vanilla heterosexual men who are the category that's the most aggressive and outspoken about their fetish of all of them to the point that they'll demand all of society revolve around serving it and become violent if it doesn't.
There's like two completely different sides of this too. If we take the common mainstream vampire kink, you have the type where a male vampire sucks the life out of the female victim, and you have the opposite type where the male vampire hunter stakes the female vampire. Are these ok? Aren't they? They're incredibly common in women's erotica and I could also find image versions of it with a quick google image search like "vampire porn snuff" or whatever, there's probably better terms that specific kink uses for that specific type of scene I don't know what to search for but you get me. Do we ban all of those?