"I must say I resent your referring to Isabelle as a hobby. Excluding her, because I don't think she fits the definition, I really enjoy torture. There's just nothing like it. Consensual or not, sexual or not, within the bounds of sanity and sense or well beyond in the blood soaked far reaches of human capability...it's just good old-fashioned fun. Nothing else scratches that nasty little itch in my psyche so well. I do consider it a way to celebrate, especially at its extremes, and the impracticality of really delving into it means it's hardly something I can do every week. It tends to be special."