Truth or Dare! How Do You Feel about BDSM?

NOBLESWORD

Katalina Leon

Kindle Edition only available in E book format.

File Size: 414 KB

Publisher: Ellora's Cave (November 1, 2009)

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Gwen and Jeff Bel Geddes are an attractive couple in their early forties who have loved each other since college—too bad they’re getting a divorce…Jeff’s unexpressed desires have led him to Noblesword Vineyards, an exclusive sexual boutique that caters to sophisticated tastes. Gwen is desperately curious to know what has attracted Jeff to Noblesword. She goes to the vineyard undercover, willingly signs a contract stating she is the sexual property of Noblesword, and turns herself over body and soul to be transformed into an erotic plaything for dominant men.Noblesword is a lush “free play zone” where adults can express their deepest fantasies and test their personal boundaries. Erotic games of every description play out behind its walls. Gwen must determine for herself if the risqué Noblesword is as dangerous as it looks or simply an erotic circus of the mind.Reader Advisory: Noblesword Vineyard is a sexual dream come true, where boundaries are almost limitless and sexual expression is encouraged. In that spirit, the novel contains some sensual f/f interaction along with a detailed m/m/f ménage. 

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While the outcome is a bit on this side of predictable, and of course Jeff was trying to save their marriage, this book packs a lot of heat into its 414 kilobytes. Gwen/Shiraz is a bit confused about her own sexuality and her husband is not at all confused about his. The two have been so emotionally and sexually estranged she cannot recognize him while wearing a blindfold.

One aspect of BDSM I find troubling is humiliation, and the act of people being gratified sexually not through submission but through allowing apparent psychosis to blossom. I am straight but not small minded and if someone wants to submit as a dog, well, that person might be okay, but lets get him or her a psych evaluation first. The story does allow that if something is not wanted, not fun then it's not done. But if this couple were as uptight with each other as described and then as open sexually and attitudinally as written then a fairly strange and rapid metamorphosis, especially on Gwen's part.

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On the plus side of the story is the very, very hot sex offered for our reading pleasure. If a weekend of hot sex can save a marriage in a book then reading it sure can't hurt a relationship in which the reader is involved (as long as the kids aren't screaming and you mother-in-law isn't sticking her nose in).

There is a lot of emphasis on youth and still maintaining one's beauty, firm breasts, etc.,  even at the ripe old age of forty (can you imagine). There are several scenes where women of ordinary strength are hosted into the air by their shackled wrists (Is there an orthopedic surgeon in the house?!).


So, in the end, my feelings are mixed: nicely written sex interspersed with public sexual humiliation which the submissive mentally rationalizes or which she gets through via a form of of disassociation. Disassociation is nit healthy. Oh, and there is a penis with the circumference of a wine bottle (ouch!); I hope it was a split of champagne and not a jeroboam!

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