A submissive masochist can be a competent professional; a dominant sadist can be a loving parent… we do have a dark side, we do have violent urges. S/m allows for the eroticization of power and powerlessness to be transformed, controlled and channelled into an expression of love, intimacy, and mutual caring. The scene space becomes a sacred circle where contraries do exist: pain becomes pleasure, control becomes freedom, and darkness becomes light.
(Stein, 1999)
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