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The softer side of S/M In his new collection of stories, Stephen Elliott examines his experiences with torture and love through admirably clear eyes.
  • Hopefully Salon won't censor me again

    I guess Salon is okay on love expressed through pain and torture and the occasional cigarette burn - but call that shit sick - and they pull your post down!

    I'm gay, so reading explicit straight sex scenes has about as much effect on me as watching a mime troupe perform Shakespeare.

    As I said before the SaloNazis threw my post into the oven, anyone who could write the above loses all claim to an adult critique of almost anything resembling art. I intoned that (IMHO), the gay and S/M sex scene is a sick one - devoid of love, based around the culture and worship of the erection and its spew, but I take that back: sweaty gay (and particularly) S/M orgies are the pinnacle of love - the absolute highest of human expression save for the love that hurts and maims - now that's adult communication.

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