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"With S/M and spirituality, what's important is that you have examined your own conscience and your soul and decided: This is my path. That doesn't mean you can't have some help or some company along the way, but the ultimate responsibility rests with you, along with the task of creating your own glory and meaning and power. Nobody's selling tickets to Leather Nirvana." - Pat Califia, from the essay, "Shiny Sharp Things" in Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex