Here’s part of a wonderful Salon.com interview with San Francisco writer and kinkster, Susie Bright, addressing the long–debated socio–political dilemma facing the feminist femsub:

‘…Tracy Clark-Flory: One of my favorite passages in the book is a scene in your women’s studies class in college. A student reveals that she has rape fantasies and the classroom explodes with shouts of, “It’s the patriarchy!”

Susie Bright: It’s fun to laugh about it now. It was so scary at the time.

Tracy Clark-Flory:Right, well, you write that sex education in women’s studies classes was an odd duck. Why is that?

Susie Bright: The template for feminist sex education in the ’70s was “Our Bodies, Our Selves.” It did everybody this massive gift of popularizing clear information about our physiology. When it came to anatomy, the women’s movement was all on the same page. You know, “Here is your clitoris. Here is your vulva. Masturbation is fabulous.” But as soon as you got above the neck and started talking about the erotic mind — where our sexual imagination goes when we’re daydreaming, masturbating or in bed with someone — then people started getting very nervous. The feminist movement had a difficult relationship with everything to do with the shadow side, the psychological world. The term “rape fantasy” is an oxymoron, because of course when you’re actually assaulted there’s nothing fantastical about it. In a fantasy, you control every quiver, every nuance — you’re as scared as you wanna be. The tension, the suspense is completely under your control. That’s the opposite of a non-consensual act of violence…”

Full interview here.