Q&A Forum - January 2013 (Best of Elise, 'Wanda' edition)

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Yet we imagined this as an ongoing renewable experience, in which the body would continually mend itself to suffer anew. Since all our knowledge of the whip hand was tainted by the exploitative realm of pornography, where all this information was sequestered by cultural propriety, we did not know what to believe and were afraid that our desires would lead to ruin, if not psychological, then surely physical.

In your book “Searching for Wanda” you devote a chapter to the appeal of the Female Torturer. In that chapter you share experiences people had visiting the Other World Kingdom. It was a fascinating read but there was an element to this that I wish you would have explored.

Today, high definition verity videos of the most extreme acts of male masochism and female sadism are available at the click of a mouse. We see endless evidence of legions of female sadists acting as if they have no regard for “permanent damage” (e.g. Cruella, Cruel Amazons, English Mansion, OWK, etc.) Savage whippings turn buttocks to bloody hamburger, spiked stilettos细高跟 — a very thin high heel and spurs savage soft skin and scrotums阴囊 — the sac that holds the testicles with the full adult gravity of the mistress女主人 — a woman who leads a submissive partner, testicles are kicked with pendulumming force again and again, bringing our darkest daydreams to light on the screen. Not to mention the video game-like insanity of head splitting face kicks, neck stomping, flying drop kicks and the like in some Asian products. There certainly seems to be some serious “permanent damage” going on, consensual or not.