'It Will Feel Good to See Him Handcuffed'

When you book in for a remedial massage from a trained professional, you take off most of your clothes and allow a stranger to cause you excruciating pain. Hansacre says, we are guided by the principle of do no further harm. We can scrip them in the war against sexual violence, asking them to subject their sorest spots to more pain. All the while we pretend this process is cathartic, that it is reparatory,. That it is what they ask for, that there will be a release. It will feel good to see him handcuffed and taken away. I watched his mother, eyes gleaming above her face mask edging towards him as the guard asked him to