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...should make clear that the BDSM these researchers study is consensual. No one in the fledgling BDSM movement argues in favor of actual slavery or rape (though eroticized simulations of such crimes are common). Among the BDSM clubs and support groups, all the reputable ones preach the BDSM mantra: safe, sane and consensual. "Like every other subculture, we have a fringe, an element that doesn't follow the rules," says Susan Wright of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a BDSM advocacy group formed in 1997 that claims 34 member organizations representing 10,000 people. "But every mainstream BDSM group...
...mantra getting ready for this game was being tougher and guarding tougher,” Sullivan said...
Cheers erupted on the bus on the way back to Cambridge when Greg Schmidt, campaign director for the Harvard Democrats, announced that the club is planning a trip to the South Carolina primary over intercession. The Edwards supporters broke into their passionate mantra...
Whereas earlier Liars releases have been vitriolic and explosive, the new material draws its power from a meditative drone. The Liars know well the power of a repeated phrase, and Andrew’s mantra on “We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own” of “take your cauldron and get down” over Hemphill’s harmonizing vocals and bass-low guitar line, legitimizes this culled from the absurd witch imagery pervading the new album. In the song, real meaning comes out of nonsense, simply from the power...
...fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate—which has published several of Ziegler’s stories since her freshman year—says Ziegler’s prose is loaded with repeated phrases and images that “take on this mantra-like way.” Jamison says Ziegler’s work is populated by “people who start as one or two sensationalized details but become fully-realized characters,” including a pair of identical twin brothers and a one-armed fireworks vendor. “She writes fiction...