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In this introduction to the subject of consensual S & M, I want to do something risky, at least to me: I want to try to pull an audience of decent readers away from its natural expectations—in this case, a proper scholarly presentation—to something more primitive, a return to raw (using that word as a double entendre) data. In choosing this type of presentation, I use the style itself—presenting a mass of observations—as a vehicle of information, thereby suggesting that we should learn more about sadomasochistic behaviors because our theories and the vocabulary that conveys them have run too far ahead of our facts.
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Stoller, R.J. (1991). Consensual Sadomasochistic Perversions. In: Pain & Passion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6068-9_1
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