“I always savored the moment I told someone I was a dominatrix,” she explains. " ~ Melissa Febos
However, something about this review irked me, maybe it was the reviewer's choice of words, like 'depravity,'
Did I enjoy hurting people? Sometimes. But not simply for the sake of their physical pain. I couldn’t fathom hurting someone who didn’t want it, but how many people get to experience the moral loophole of hurting someone who wants to be hurt?...As I crouched on that bathroom floor, held that man’s head beneath the water, I experienced a kind of transcendence. It was that utter alienation from self, a loosening of the glue that made my reality whole. It felt both horrific and triumphant. ~ Melissa Febos
Here's what the reviewer said:
The raw descriptions of depravity can be astonishing—in the session detailed above, held in one of the dungeon’s “medical rooms” (complete with “examination tables, mirrored walls...proctoscopes and stethoscopes, rolling wheels with spikes and pincers, clamps, syringes, thermometers, tongue depressors…”),
To those who don't understand the power dynamics in bdsm scenes, what happens during the course of one may sound depraved, perhaps even envisioning a dominatrix brutalizing a client then kicking him out after taking his money. *shakes head* It's NOT so. It's called consensual power exchange.Is it a good review? Yes and there are MORE good reviews.
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