"If athletes could think of SM as sports, they'd understand the acceptance of pain, but they'd always want to know who was winning." - Joseph W. Bean
"SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture." - Pat Califia
"Sex becomes a musical instrument with its strings tightened, raising the key to a sharper and clearer sound." - Kitt
"The intense interchange of communication, trust, openness, and caring is part of every S/M consensual encounter." - Kitt
"In S/M sex each seeks to open as much as possible, to push past the limits to turn each other on so intensely that there is no possibility but full satisfaction, not just physically but emotionally & physically as well." - Juicy Lucy
"S/M is about emotion, the erotic tension between my impulse toward something and my resistance against it." - Virginia Barker
(BDSM is) "Sex with my eyes open." - Virginia Barker
"We all need someplace to go and someone to tell."
Gerrie Blum, from "Somewhere to Go, Someone to Tell" - in Laura Antoniou (ed.), Some Women (Masquerade, 1995)
"If you haven't taken the risks, you don't get to make the rules." - Juicy Lucy
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