The L-word has lost it's meaning. What does 'I love you' mean? Word inflation. What does it mean to you? I know a lot of us can't see the love between people like Koen and his Sylvia.
But we don't tell our neighbours what to think, even if we don't agree with them. We just accept that they have a different relationship than 'normal' people.
Because they are happy that way. What can be wrong with being happy?
“Would she ever dare tell him that no pleasure, no joy, no figment of her imagination could ever compete with the happiness she felt at the way he used her with such utter freedom, at the notion that he could do anything with her, that there was no limit, no restriction in the manner with which, on her body, he might search for pleasure?”
Pauline Réage, Story of O