Q&A Forum - January 2019

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I appreciate that in your column when questions of limits and boundaries arise you advise caution and restraint, as your guru role dictates. However, there is almost no real documentation of actual consequences in your writings and throughout the growing expanse of the Velvet Underground. If you are taking suggestions for a subject for a future book, I would be most interested in the recollections of these voluntary victims that live at the edge, of what happened after the cameras stopped rolling. Did they conquer pain and overcome their bodies? Did the endorphin high allow them to lord mind over matter? Or have they squandered their health and aged themselves prematurely, fallen to disease and permanently racked with lacerated skin and crushed nerves that hang around every day without being so sexy anymore?

I’m not trying to burst the bubble of the last sexual frontier that I’ve lived mostly vicariously, but am simply looking for full disclosure from some who dared. I encourage you to use the forum you’ve courageously built to seek edge players who will tell us the whole story. Thank you!