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“The denial, disgust, and discomfort that characterize our reaction to claims of affection in bondage can too easily conceal a smug comfort in our own identification with slaves rather than owners. What is more, it risks turning slaves into cyphers for our modern imaginings of the self-– a being whose historical value is only realized in a relentless searching for totalized, individual autonomy.”

(Chapter 4)