Section 3 Study Guide te OK oe About The Author TK OK ok Clarisse's Lectures, Workshops and Events te Kk ok Footnotes te OK OK Glossary te OK OK te OK ok te Kk ok SECTION 1: The Basics In which we explore the foundations of S&M, feminism, and sex-positive feminism. te OK OK When I think of this section, I think of: If you're afraid of pain, you have to find out what pain is. ~ Marina Abramovic I'd like to thank all the brave pioneers of the BDSM community, for exploring the reaches of human sexuality, and coming back with maps. ~ an unsourced quotation offered by one of my blog commenters te Kk ok te OK OK te OK OK S&M: [storytime] Love Bites: An S&M Coming-Out Story The events of this story took place between 2005-2008; I wrote it in fits and starts over the span of 2006-2008. I started blogging as Clarisse Thorn in 2008, but my coming-out story wasn't published until early 2010, when Time Out Chicago picked it up. I look over this piece today, in 2012, and I think about what I would have written differently if I'd HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018449