I can't speak to the merits of the book, but to the reader who likened BDSM to torture--you really have no idea what you're talking about.
Charity is not the same as robbery, even though money is exchanged. In the first instance, money is given freely and an emotional pleasure of having given is the prize. Willingness and pleasure, change the experience entirely.
So too with BDSM, and for much the same reasons.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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