Q&A Forum - January 2019

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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.