Laura Antoniou: Quotes about people

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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.”

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

“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"?”

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.”

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