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  • Unlike sadomasochistic fantasy material, hurt-comfort places the source of the injury outside of the dyad of sufferer and comforter….

    Meth-fueled prostitution in the Rockies 2005

  • I’ve been reading hurt-comfort since the 1970’s - it predates slash although not by much and I would guess that half of it still is non-slash.

    Meth-fueled prostitution in the Rockies 2005

  • To quote Camille Bacon-Smith, who did a study of fanfic in the 1980s’, Unlike sadomasochistic fantasy material, hurt-comfort places the source of the injury outside of the dyad of sufferer and comforter….

    Meth-fueled prostitution in the Rockies 2005

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