John laughed loudly. "Said fuck all about being a sub, darlin'. Equal footing, mutual pleasure, yeah? Not my fault you got issues. Gave you all the choices and you said you wanted it. You've gotta' ask to hurt me, so I thought this was a reasonable workaround. I push, you push yeah? I like violence in my sex and sex in my violence, dunno' whether you may have picked up on that?" He looked distractedly at his wound. "Say I wanna' lick at this, I'm not gonna' turn am I?"