Safe Words

Prologue

What follows is a project that once excited me—intellectually, conceptually, and, at times, in ways that defy polite elaboration. And yet the, um, research required quickly spiraled into something a touch more immersive than I’d anticipated. So I shelved it. Still, the beginnings remain. And beginnings—especially messy, half-mad ones—deserve their day in the sun.

Here, then, is the start of what was started.