“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

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