Recipe for Kink Confusion

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Ingredients:

1 fundamentalist Christian upbringing 3 dominated Disney princesses 1 abusive boyfriend 

Directions:

Step 1: Attend churches where wives submit to husbands and purity pledges drive your friends to develop rape fantasies. Internalize pain as sacrament, suffering as humanity, domination as masculinity. 

Step 2: Watch Belle fall in love with someone who frightens her, yells at her, doesn’t want her to leave the house. Watch the beast transform into a nice guy when enough chances have been given. Watch Arielle’s voice leave her body. Watch Eric fall in love with her silence. Watch Jasmine bound and beautiful, cuffed and cunning, fawning until she’s free. 

Step 3: Fall in love with someone who can’t help but hurt you because you’re a virgin and he’s hung. Be surprised when you don’t feel guilty. Be surprised when he worships your body so devoutly that you don’t mind when he likes it a little rough. Be surprised when you like it a little rough. Be confused when he gets too rough and all the chances in the world don’t transform him into a nice guy. Hear him say: “No, no baby,” when you try to use your voice. Hear him say: “Let me do what I want,” and then watch him make you do what he wants. Lose your voice. Feel yourself bound, pinned, pushed. Feel your breath leave your body while he pumps too hard and too deep. Pull on the hand around your neck. Fawn until you’re free.

"Recipe for Kink Confusion" was first published by Bending Genres in 2026.