Intersections Between Pain and Pleasure in “Brutalities” – Chicago Review of Books

Intersections Between Pain and Pleasure in “Brutalities” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Margo Steines knows something about pain. At seventeen, while growing up in New York City, she became a dominatrix, her first-ever job. She was a sex worker for a decade, later running her own S/M dungeon—kicking, punching, and otherwise assaulting consenting, paying adult males for a living. She developed a romantic—albeit increasingly tumultuous and … Read more