The novel this is from was unpublished when I put this post up.

Now it’s about to be published, so free segments from it have to be taken down.

In this excerpt a woman who wants to be publicly caned, because that pushes several of her hottest buttons, tries to pretend that’s not what she wants.

William “Neckbeard” Empson, of Seven Types of Ambiguity fame. I’d used Type 3: the same word or phrase expressing two conflicting ideas