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Article: A conversation with Robert Duncan (1976). (part 2)(Interview)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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The following interview was conducted at Robert Duncan's request in Huntington Beach, California, on May 29, 1976. The second half of the interview is published here; the first half appeared in Chicago Review 43:4 (Fall, 1997).
Paul Trachtenberg: People who allow themselves to be bound and strung up, or who whip one another, are play-acting. The whipping is done with tenderness. They care about their flesh and aren't about to get scarred. At leather bars you don't see lacerations all over faces and arms.
Robert Duncan: .You are right, Paul. It is remarkable that when sadomasochistic cults emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, as sex cults rather than ...