“Because this,” said Ross, lifting the book, “is safe.” “I’ll remind you of that if you’re ever arrested for obscenity.” “Safer than the alternative. Or perhaps you think I’d come to no harm at all, risk nothing, if I were to go in search of rough-handed soldiers and cruel dukes and tell them that what I really fancied was being tied up and fucked and pretending that I didn’t want it.”
