Scenario

Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that is, severed from personhood, from relationships, from love....Sade had to make up his theater of punishment and delight from scratch, improvising the decor and costumes and blasphemous rites. Now there is a master scenario available to everyone. The color is black, the material is leather, the seduction is beauty, the justification is honesty, the aim is ecstasy, the fantasy is death.
--Susan Sontag

This black widow spider had been living on my front porch for a few days while I was waiting to take its picture. I was hoping to set a more menacing scenario but rushed it tonight trying to get in the blip before bedtime then dispatched it before it could breed an army of little black widders. Not something I want welcoming my houseguests.