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Laura Antoniou is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.Antoniou is also known for her work as an editor and pioneer on the field of contemporary erotic fiction and in particular as editor of lesbian erotica anthologies including the three volume Leather Women series, Some Women, By Her Subdued, No Other Tribute, and a collection of her own short stories and essays titled The Catalyst and Other Works. In 2011, she won the John Preston Short Fiction award from the National Leather Association for her short story "That's Harsh," published in the e-book edition of The Slave.

Antoniou's fiction and her essays on alternate views of sexual roles have been cited by writers on the evolution of erotic fiction, and on the social politics of gender roles. Documentary filmmaker and author Tanya Trepanier's described Antoniou as part of a growing trend of novelists exploring hybrid forms of identity, including cultural and sexual identity, that don't fit into simple categories, using narrative storytelling as a way of understanding identities that can't be easily defined in a traditional manner. In an analysis of contemporary novelists in the area of women's erotic fiction, Carolyn Allen cites Antoniou's writings as describing the concept that all relationships between people include elements of power exchange, with one partner taking the more dominant role even in day-to-day interactions. Nikki Sullivan, lecturer in Cultural and Critical Studies at Macquarie University, in her essay Sadomasochism as Resistance? refers to Antoniou's description of sexual roles as a loose structure, due to the many choices available to the participants, with the key element being the choice of which participant guides the activities.Writings by Antoniou are at the Leather Archives and Museum. Wikipedia  

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“What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14

“Safe, sane and consensual — what do those words really mean?
Assimilation, that's what.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 12

“The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh — so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14

“What is happening to my sexuality?
It's cold, it's pasionless, and what's worse, it's dull.
John Preston was right. SM has become a nice, sweet alternative to heavy petting, and the leaders of this SM "community" want us to be the Elks or some other animal-named civics association, gathering to sell expensive clothing and raffle tickets, congratulating ourselves on how nice we are.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 13

“Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 12

“And the harder the SSC ["safe, sane and consensual"] gets pushed at me, the harder I feel like pushing back. Passion, that's what I'm into, passion and blood and honor, so powerful that it pounds through my veins and blinds me, so terrible that I can't look away. Danger, Dementia, and Denial. I want to hear that panic, scream "No, Please!" and struggle through the haze of pain and pleasure and all that stuff that goes on between the moment we touch eyes and the moment when we both collapse and try to catch our breaths and break the silence.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14

“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 13

“My fantasies have never been safe ones.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 12

“There are times when I just want to walk through a room, grab that girl, slap her hard and make her cry. Push her down and fuck her mind over twice as hard as her body. Sometimes, I want to be that girl.”

Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14

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