[H]ow the force of one's adolescent curiosity and incipient lust often must bar with the need to protect oneself from disgusting and wicked violators, how pleasure can coexist with awful degradation without meaning the degradation was justified or a species of wish fulfillment; how it feels to be both accomplice and victim; and how such ambivalence scan live on in an adult sexual life.

Maggie Nelson

The Argonauts

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