With historical, contemporary, and futuristic backdrops, this outrageously diverse collection of original stories explores every conceivable variation of BDSM erotica--from knitting circles to the Titanic to a retelling of The Little Mermaid. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read.
Agony/Ecstasy: Original Stories of Agonizing Pleasure/Exquisite Pain
Three couples and all three are bond to one thing: sex, red and fiery, filled with lust, passion; you can spend an entire life with a person and have literary no idea to whom you confess all your fears, emotions, happy or sad moments. In a blink of an eye, it could all go south and the person near us, the one which we share a bed for years and a house may threaten our life. Or maybe the sex is mind blowing; there are erotic moments and sparks, chemistry between us that we may not pay attention to details no more. Probably one of the most used weapon in the world besides guns, bullets and soldiers is lust and sex.
On the continent, flagellation is often known as "the English disease", mainly because of what Niklaus Largier, author of In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal, describes as "the well-known custom of English educators whipping their pupils extensively". By the 17th century, London was indeed home to exclusive "whipping brothels" where gentlemen would repair for a pleasurable thrashing. De Sade believed in the absolute pursuit of pleasure regardless of all strictures of law, religion or morality. Since he not only wrote extensively about his fantasies but also put them into practice with his unfortunate domestic servants, he ended up spending more than half his life in various prisons and an insane asylum. His best-known works - The Days of Sodom, Justine and Juliette - feature innumerable and horrific scenes of rape, orgy, murder, sexual abuse and torture.