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Walker, Alicia M.; Kuperberg, Arielle (2022). "Pathways and Patterns of Entrance into BDSM". Love and Leashes, 2022 Netflix movie about romance between two workplace staff, one of whom has a novel sexual style and preference for dominant ladies. While it's potential that tomatoes are known as love apples due to their aphrodisiacal qualities, there's one other principle to think about, which sadly is far less spicy than the primary one. Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Kieron Gillen referred to as it an "attention-grabbing examination of the grasp/slave relationship". Rock Paper Shotgun's Alec Meer described it as a "wry, subversive examination of why video sport protagonists put themselves by means of a torturous quantity of wrestle to achieve their goals". James DeRosa praised Anthropy for her implementation of elements and ideas that most games do not cowl and referred to as it a "hypersexualized, bondage-themed platformer" with which Anthropy "explores the power dynamics of sexuality and disassembles essentialist male and feminine sex roles as portrayed in video video games -- in addition to the significance of issue and reward as a design method".