This could be a wonderful thing, not having to worry about waking up in a strange place with a strange man and not knowing how she got there. She'd ha... far too many of those experiences and didn't like the way they made her feel.Or this could be very bad and once she was cured, she would no longer be under his care and have to go back to being alone and on her own again. Neither option made her look forward to what he might learn about this procedure and the more she thought about the possible. "Evan grinned. "Have you always been this rebellious? I heard you were a good girl." I am a good girl," Erika said. "I just like to go to extremes sometimes, explore what I can do. That's what life is about, not to mention acting. I've always tried to live that way, all my life." She smiled back at Evan."And that was how we met," said Alicia. "I liked Erika at once. I could tell she was someone really inspiring, right about a lot of things. The fact that the pompous egomaniac I'd just done a. . Mabel." Mabel, Mabel, get off the table -- that quarter's for beer!" she said.What? What was she talking about? I didn't say anything."That's just something people used to say," she explained. "It's like a joke -- see? That's the kind of name 'Mabel' is -- a barmaid's name! That's why I like it! Never mind about my given name. Never liked it. Just call me Mabel!" Yes, ma'am." Jesus, you're so damned polite! Can't you just talk to me like a person? 'Yes ma'am!, Yes ma'am!' you sound like a. Even when they were married the man couldn't have sex with his wife unless she said it was OK."Bill nodded noncommittally. This was sounding far-fetched."A few men did enjoy causing women pain, but most didn't. Men loved women, and did their best to make them happy. And here's the biggest thing. You know how the Dworkinian position is that all sex is rape? That women submit to men's desires?"Bill nodded."Well, it's not true. Women wanted it. They craved sex a lot and missed it." Pain? They.