Mistress Talia: a sadistic domme

This past week, I read this book... and honestly, I don't want to review it. Heck, I didn't want to finish reading it. The book just annoyed me and got on my nerves.

But... I have gobs and gobs of porn books, collected over the years. When I started this blog, I thought something along the lines of that I'd reread one once a week, then post about it. I wanted to only write when a book was fresh in my memory. However, it turns out this is a whole lot more porn than I actually want to read, so the book section of this blog is a bit flimsy.

Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia^* is highly recommended.

Yes, it's another title by Califia. Califia was a pioneer of sex-positive feminism, and has been angrily opposing the anti-porn feminazis since the 70s. We highly admire Califia's body of work, the thoughtful essays, amazingly hot erotica and practically useful manuals.

This particular book is intended to stimulate your brain, not your genitals. It absolutely will make you think. Regardless of whether you are sexually conservative or liberal, this book will challenge many of your own ideas about sexuality.

This book was written by Samois, a lesbian feminist BDSM group based in San Francisco from 1978 to 1983.

The book consists of short stories (porn) and essays (political) from a time when a section of the feminist movement decided the way to earn equality for women was to beat up leatherdykes.

Sensuous Magic: A Guide for Adventurous Lovers is another great book from Pat Califia*.

This is not an in-your-face type of book, as many other of Califia's writings are. Rather, this is a gentle introduction to BDSM. This book is not leatherdyke-specific as most of Califia's writings, rather this is addressed to any one, of any orientation, including those not into BDSM at all.

I posted a video clip of Betty Dodson drawing recently, and it reminded me to go ahead and review her book, Sex For One.

Anal Pleasure and Health - a guide for men and women by Jack Morin, Ph.D. is a beginner's guide to your bum. ;)

Seriously, it is exactly that. If you've wanted to explore, but are afraid of pain, discomfort, or the "ick" factor, this book is for you.

Macho Sluts, by Pat Califia^*, is simply the hottest thing I have ever, ever read.

I have often said that this book is hot enough to get you off if you have a pulse at all, and maybe even if you don't. ;)

The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices is a catalog of uncommon and taboo practices by Brenda Love.

Melting Point, by Pat Califia^*, is a collection of lesbian short stories. The stories are definitely pornographic, the entire point is whack-off material for leatherdykes. However, they are not typically pornographic in the sense that there is enough back story to make you interested in the characters.

However, the main reason I am a fan of the author's fiction is that any description, whether explicitly sexual or not, is utterly sensual. A simple description of someone walking across the floor is arousing. The actual sex scenes are explosively hot.

I recently read Carrie's Story: An Erotic S/M Novel by Molly Weatherfield because it was highly recommended by some BDSM folk I respect, a fem domme and her submissive who thought it was wonderful.

So I was rather surprised to find that it is entirely a story about a female submissive who is with a male dominant throughout most of the book. I think the specific folks who recommended it found it hot because of the pony girl twist towards the middle of the novel.

My Darling Dominatrix by Grant Antrews is considered by many to be a classic fem domme fantasy.

The story takes place in Washington D.C. during the Reagan administration. Ned Ramsell is a young, successful, recently divorced Vietnam veteran who notices a breathtaking lady on a bench while jogging in the park one day. He begins watching for her and notices she often meets men who bring her envelopes, sometimes even kneeling to kiss her shoes. Eventually, he gets up the nerve to approach her and ask her out and thus the adventure begins.

Screw the Roses; Send Me the Thorns was written by Philip Miller and Molly Devon in 1988, and while a bit dated, it remains a good introduction to the scene for newbies with a few caveats.

But first the good news. The book covers the basics a newbie needs to know: safety issues, basic bondage techniques, how to use a whip both sensually and sadistically, sensation play, negotiation, how to find partners. It's a quite good overview of the scene.

The movie was just incredibly stupid (though I have to credit it for having some eye candy), but I remember really enjoying the book.

Yesterday, I was discussing one particularly hot scene from that book with a caller: the wrestling scene between Elliott and the other slave. I found that pretty hot.

If you don't know what I'm referring to, it's a series of books by Laura Antoniou.

Laura is an extremely intelligent, literate chick that writes incredibly hot stories about characters that seem like real people. I spent about a week rereading the first three books recently and was just climbing the walls all week! Laura is a massive turn-on for me and I recommend her highly.