| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 172 | The View more quotes about slave">slave had asked to feel the whip. |
| 1 | 173 | The slave's attitude toward the whip is to some extent ambivalent. |
| 1 | 174 | It is, of course, a symbol of the mastery to which she is subject. |
| 1 | 175 | That is doubtless why it is not unoften the case that she must kneel, usually naked, and kiss the whip. |
| 1 | 176 | This is a simple ceremony in which she expresses her submission, acknowledges her servitude, and, in effect, thanks the master for deigning to dominate and possess her. |
| 1 | 177 | To be sure, with a new slave, this ceremony is sometimes enforced upon her, as it helps her to attain a clearer understanding of what she now is, and the nature of her new reality. |
| 1 | 178 | Usually, of course, the whip is regarded with trepidation, and alarm. |