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"For in spite of its elegant prose and construe-_ tion, its serious religious underpinnings, its erudition, and its out-and-out intelligence and wit, The Real Thing is, at heart, a diabolical mystery of sex and terror set in the shadowy world of the gay male S/M subculture of the 1960s. Carney makes no bones about it; there is nothing coded here, no insinuations or half­suggestions: this is a world of masters and slaves, of (consensual) sexual violence, and physical and psychological terror. " - Michael Bronski