Chapter 41 Author's Note

• This is what I used to call the "fantasy of domination." It's about being dominated by someone who has power over you. This could be a person, or it might be an object like a whip or a chainsaw. The dominant can hurt you if they want to, and the submissive doesn't have much control over their body—they just do whatever the dominant tells them to do. Often, this fantasy involves pain. But not always. Some people enjoy being forced to perform sexual acts against their will (rape fantasies). Others are turned on by being humiliated or made to look stupid in front of other people (humiliation fetish).
• "I had a girlfriend back when I was in college," a friend told me once. "She loved humiliation. She wanted me to talk dirty to her while she got dressed." He said that he did his best to keep from laughing during these interactions, but once in a while he couldn't help himself.
• "What'd she say?" I asked.