I hadn't heard of this book. It's been instructive, the way you used it to highlight dynamics within the BDSM community (which I know fuck-all about). Thank you for the information.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this follow the pattern of the Twilight reactions: mockery on one side (with an added dose of defensiveness, apparently), pleasure on the other, and a complete dismissal of the possible discussion of pathological relationships and their appeal that might open up subsequently.

It worries me to the think what non-kink folks would make of this, though, given they don't know the norms of the BDSM community, and thus can't see what's pathological versus what's not.