...we're not talking about the bizarre irregularities of culture, we're talking about my systemic dysfunction as a human being, and that needs to be stamped out immediately.
The only time we ever address sex publicly is to remind people what a sordid, painful, embarrassing affair the whole thing is to begin with, and that has got to change.
We have to stop pretending that a thoughtful, enlightened, sophisticated approach to life and to human expression is necessarily a chaste one. It's bad for art, it's bad for sex, and yes, it's bad for society.
The idea... that the erotic equivalent of panhandling is apparently so popular, and that there are so many people who perpetuate and participate in it in spite of its toxic nature, is a unique kind of depressing.
[I]t's often hard for a new Domme, or really the uninitiated in general, to separate the essence of domination, power, and control from the image one often has of a "dominatrix".
[W]e live in a culture that is so abhorrently, pathetically ashamed of our relationship to erotic media... that it promotes a furtive, skeevy, back-alley way of dealing with the content in the first place.
The one thing I learned very quickly about 50 Shades of Grey... is that it's bad. Really bad. Just incredibly really very bad. I mean it. Sincerely poor writing.