Locking the door
Locking the door (of a room with a person inside) is a means of physical restraint and as such a strong symbol of non-consensuality.
A person may be locked up alone in a room for confinement, either as a form of punishment by itself (incarceration), or for safekeeping before the actual punishment is administered.
A person in charge may also lock the door from inside when they are about to subject another person to something they will probably not consent to, for example corporal punishment, to make sure they can not escape. Locking the door in a situation where punishment seems likely can trigger great fear.
Door-locking thus has a powerful effect for people into BDSM/spanking roleplay or fiction and can be eroticized. It can play a similar role in rape, sexual abuse and other non-consensual sexual fantasies too.
Locking the door is also a measure of privacy to ensure someone else does not walk in on a scene, e.g. in a spanking party or BDSM party.
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