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AUTHOR’S NOTE

Slow Provocation is a work of fiction. While transgressive at some levels, it seeks to engage responsibly with the intersecting issues it raises. These include interpersonal and political inequality, sexual expression, traumatic re-enactment, and psychotherapy (for which self-awareness and ongoing selfscrutiny are essential prerequisites of reflective and ethical practice). In this context, distinction is drawn - as it clearly needs to be - between consensual nonconventional sexual activity which is freely engaged in, and that which is fuelled by unresolved and often early-life trauma (for which specialised and potentially long-term counselling is indicated). The need for this distinction is clear but the means of arriving at it may not be. The stakes of discerning and negotiating the boundary between the two is one of several components of the narrative drive.