Chapter Seventeen The Book “More than ninety percent of our subjects seek corporal punishment, usually at the hands of males.” “Here’s the revised list of suspect characteristics,” Carlton said as he sat in Nicholas’ splendidly furnished office on the top floor of the same building where several young women were learning about true submission in the lower basements. The list, which he pulled from the laser printer on the nearby shelf, was the continuing work of the entire staff designed to assist the recruitment and search units in locating potential subjects for the group’s training program. The new list, actually an addendum to The Book, the master guide, was subject to change and often did when it was found that certain criteria were not useful or correct. Among the new additions w