User blog comment:B214/Chapter 497: The Winter Mage/@comment-4829046-20160808175546/@comment-4829046-20160809033622

Are you being serious now?

Mashima isn't an idiot. He knows full well what he is doing by drawing in such a manner. You've seen enough torture in other shounen so you should know how some authors purposely make it so that it isn't suggestive. Mashima is using none of subtleties. We've had chained torture sessions for 3 arcs in a row. When Minerva did it, there was nothing explicitly sexual about it, since Sabertooth established that it was more of an elitist thing than just perverse. Ever since Kyouka however, who was confirmed lesbo, torture scenes have been extremely suggestive.

And you just insulted a whole bunch of people that like BDSM content btw. My problem isn't BDSM content by itself, my issue is that Mashima has making it obvious for most of the post-timeskip and used it on characters that deserve better just to please the people that like to see such expressions on said characters.