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For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been the proper, the only approach__ut not for this woman, in these circumstances. The only thing that will cleanse Claire (and reassure her: look at what she says at the end of it. She feels safe again, having felt the power and violence in him) is violence. And__he most important point here__amie pays attention to what she wants, rather than proceeding with his own notion of how it should be, even though it__ a sensible notion and the one most people would have.
Diana Gabaldon "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
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For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been the proper, the only approach__ut not for this woman, in these circumstances. The only thing that will cleanse Claire (and reassure her: look at what she says at the end of it. She feels safe again, having felt the power and violence in him) is violence. And__he most important point here__amie pays attention to what she wants, rather than proceeding with his own notion of how it should be, even though it__ a sensible notion and the one most people would have.
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"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

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