"Rosen undermines the viewer's expectations in almost every frame. The actual instruments of S/M are reduced to their most minimal--we see the silhouette of a pulley or the length of a chain asymmetrically dividing a print, but not the chains that bind the hands or the hands that are bound. The juxtapositioning of similar events in homosexual and heterosexual contexts and the switching of genders from `top' to `bottom' on facing pages conveys the idea that gender-specificity might not be what S/M is about.."--Ron Bluestein, The Advocate.