-by their own personal experience. What I do heartily agree with here is the importance of embodiment and integration. Reading about something or watching a "how to" video does not and cannot replace the embodied experience of actually practising it irl.

I both agree and disagree with this quote. I do quite a lot of kink non-fiction reading and I do find value in it. However, sometimes what is presented as non-fiction in this realm can sound and feel like someone's fantasy, or at least an account extremely heavily biased -