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I think you may be confusing sensual with sexual-- because the movie is very, very sensual 😂 And I am glad you are discovering more about BDSM-- not having sex during BDSM play is actually quite common. It's quite usual for a Dominatrix (a professional Female Dominant) to never have sex with her clients.

I think the only thing I can "complain" about the movie is how it implies it's super difficult to have a BDSM relationship with your boyfriend/girlfriend. It's actually not! You just need good communication. BDSM can fit into a romantic relationship with no problem. As long as you respect each other and the roles and talk things through everything will be ok.

It's a very good starting point to know the basics of BDSM! They did a great job with that

The healthiest, most positive
depiction of BDSM you'll find in mainstream media, that's what 😂

It is, that's why it got a lot of hate from the BDSM community back when it came out and became popular. It was the first big piece of media that portrayed BDSM as its main theme and it did so in the most horrendous, dangerous way possible. But a movie like Love and Leashes shows how far we've come from that 😊

For starters, E.L. James (the author of the books) barely had a general grasp of what BDSM was when she wrote the story (it was originally Twilight fanfiction), which ended up becoming a depiction of not a BDSM relationship between two people who are into it, but more so an abusive, controlling, violent man using BDSM as an excuse to mistreat women with the excuse of him just being kinky. One of the biggest, glaring red flags is that Anastasia is not allowed to withdraw consent because he manipulates her and coerces her into always saying yes constantly-- which is not only a terrible portrayal of BDSM which has safe, sane and consensual as its pillars, but it normalizes behavior that in real life translates to the kind of men who eventually murder the woman they are with.

You are blessed that this was your introduction to BDSM. It's a wonderful starting point, Fifty Shades absolutely isn't

By the way, if you guys want intense BDSM sex scenes just watch p*rn, not Fifty Shades. That trilogy is a shitshow and textbook example of everything you should NEVER EVER DO when you're in a BDSM relationship. If you ever meet anyone who has Christian Grey's personality in real life RUN AWAY or you could end up dead-- I mean it.

I personally really enjoyed that we didn't get full-on sex scenes. There was so much intimacy shown even without them, and I trade any sex scenes for the quiet scene of Ji Hoo admiring the marks she left on his back after stepping on him, and her admiring him as he ate from her hand. That shows how much the people behind the movie understood what they were portraying.

Plus the kiss they shared was more intense and worth more than all the kisses I've seen in some 16-ep long kdramas combined.

Pet play in BDSM can be way way more intense than that, that was pretty tame and more cute than anything 😅

Guys, it's incredible. That's all I have to say. I'll rewatch it a thousand times

What can I say? I am a sucker for "character comes to life" stories. But sadly this just feels like they had a team of underpaid writers churning out something as quickly as they could without worrying about the quality at all. It's a shame because at times you see glimpses of what could've been, but it's also not long enough to make you regret watching.

I don't know how it went behind the scenes in the production, but i feel is a risky topic for Korean media and a movie instead of a series was a much safer bet. Fingers crossed it's good and successful enough that we get sequels!

I don't get a lot of SLS because I sort of always know going into a drama what the main couple is going to be and if I don't like it I drop it or never start it. However in the past I have loved second leads a lot but haven't wanted them to end with the female lead-- I just wanted them to be happy on their own or with their own love interest. I feel like it's something akin to SLS but not quite. While You Were Sleeping is an example and Start Up is another one of this happening to me but the SML sadly didn't have their own romantic happy ending. Hometown Cha Cha Cha is another example but in this case the SML does have an amazing happy ending

Gonna start my third rewatch today. I think this may be my all time comfort show, I love it so much

Oh man the trailer is giving me high hopes. It looks funny but adorable as hell. I've only seen Lee Jun Young before in Imitation, but comparing his character there from what I saw on the trailer, boy's got some range on him lmao

He knows he was adopted and that they lost a child before adopting him. He never told his parents he knew but his mom knew he did

The side characters (especially Eun Ho and Sol Yi) bring the comedy most of the time, and in my opinion they stay funny throughout all the eps

"I can't decide if it needed more or less of that" is literally the best way to put it! And in my opinion both are correct. For the story they told about NJ and Ji Woong (Ji Woong especially) they needed more to fully wrap up the storylines they created for them, because as it ended it felt incomplete for everything they set up about their lives. Which makes you also right in it needing less of that-- if they hadn't put them through so much their stories wouldn't feel incomplete. So I really believe both are right.

Yes and in my opinion, no. For it to be a love triangle the character with the second love interest should have some sort of feelings towards the second lead, and it is very explicitly shown that is not the case. The leads only like each other, and both have people who feel unrequited love towards them.