| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 11 | 1025 | But I did not View more quotes about think">think that was involved here. |
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| 11 | 1022 | It would have seemed to me, in effect, to acknowledge one's inner realities, to call attention to what lay within one, to proclaim one's inner self publicly, to offer oneself for bondage, to beg, in a way, the collar. |
| 11 | 1023 | I certainly had no objection to having my ears pierced. |
| 11 | 1024 | Did this mean that I was so obviously a slave? I assumed, of course, they had in mind some natural sort of piercing, and not some grotesque mutilation. |
| 11 | 1025 | But I did not think that was involved here. |
| 11 | 1026 | The men of this world, with all their barbaric animal heat, with all their ardor, and power and mastery, loved and desired women, and relished them, and prized them. |
| 11 | 1027 | The last thing they would want to do would be to decrease the beauty or value of a woman. |
| 11 | 1028 | Even their strictest and most severe devices of punishment and discipline were designed with the protection of such features in mind. |