“Masochism, in its eccentric eroticism, makes explicit what most contemporary asceticism merely hints at: the affirmation of the body’s frailty as a gateway to intense pleasure.”
― Anita Phillips, A Defence of Masochism.
Sado-masochism is at the center of Queen Sensoria‘s practice. The Queen approaches her field as an art form, where both sadist and masochist are artists; one by inspiring awe and inflicting well-dosed, minute climaxes of suffering; the other by letting themselves be inspired and raptured to a point of sublimation of pain into pleasure.