"Odi et amo quare id faciam fortasse requiris.Nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior."
"I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you perhaps ask. I do not know, but I feel it happening to me and I am burning up."
Joy, sorrow, pleasure, pain: somewhere deep inside us all, there burns an eternal passion, a flame that would consume us all, except for one most spiritual place, an unseen crucible in which opposites will melt and fuse and join. It remains a sacred secret alchemy where hate can turn to love, pain to pleasure, and violence to grace.
The practice of BDSM acknowledges all these emotions, incorporates them into a sexual ritual, which allows them to be expressed in a most intimate way.
We cannot find that sacred space, that ritual, alone. We must search for our opposites instead. When we find them we must never wait. We must grab and hold on tightly, perhaps even for dear life.
