Chapter Thirty
“What do you think about training, as a matter of principle?” Constance asked.
“What do you mean?” Hannah said.
“It’s my belief that we are what we are born to be. You and I are lesbians. We cannot be anything else. And each of us has some instinct towards submission. We want to be used. Objectified. Controlled. We are made that way. So training is surely superfluous. They can’t make us any more lesbian than we are, or any more submissive.”
“Consider the root meaning of ‘educate’” Hannah replied. She liked to argue from first principles or from essentials. “It means ‘to lead out, to bring out’. It’s not about putting things into people, but about bringing out what is there.”
“That’s my point,” said Constance.
“Well, not exactly,” Hannah said. “Sometimes it needs to be
