Some thought-provoking quotes on BDSM...

"These things don't come from our childhood; they come from our historic
past. They are the seductive and terrifying symbols of cruelties that were routine right up through the eighteenth century."
--Anne Rice

"After all, sexual fantasy and the things that thrill us are often dark and dirty, though we usually don't like to admit that out loud."
--Susan Wright

"Spanking is also a show. It's street theater or lyric opera depending on the circumstances. Some fear discovery; others revel in spectacle."
--Jean-Pierre Enard

"Leather is thicker than blood."
--Gayle Rubin

"To whip is also to caress."
--Valerie Steele

"There are really two kinds of submissives in the world: those who believe they don't deserve any better…and those who believe they don't deserve any less."
--Author Unknown

"It's your body; play with it."
--Fakir Musafar

"Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex."
--Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt

"Sadomasochism enjoys all the forms of religious piety--kneeling, praying, worshipping, sacrificing, invoking, and punishing."
--Terence Sellers

"The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber."
--Charles Levin

"The best way of enlarging and multiplying one's desires is to try to limit them."
--The Marquis de Sade

"A fetish is a story masquerading as an object."
--Robert Stoller

"You can read a hundred books and cruise a thousand websites and chatrooms,
but it will not equal one hour of real-time BDSM experience."
--Sensuous Sadie

"Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure."
--Mitch Kessler

"You are no one’s slave, dog, slut, or sub until you give them that right. Only you can give it. No one can take or assume it without your permission."
--Jack Rinella