In "If I Ask You to Tie Me Up, Will You Still Want to Love Me?" Juicy Lucy states that sexual S/M is "a healing tool"(Lucy 35) and “very cathartic”(Lucy 35). She was a battered woman for years and now says that she has "the right to release & transform the pain & fear of those experiences," any way she pleases. She describes S/M as "growthful," "trust building," "loving," "creative, spiritual, integrating, a development of inner power as strength"(Lucy 31). Through lesbian S/M, Lucy faces what she calls her…
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