(BOGOF BDSM 1) My Lady - review

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In this and the next post, I'm going to review two BDSM stories from the first FAWC (Friendly Anonymous Writing Competition), run by SlycWillie on the writers' board on Literotica.

I've long thought that 50 Shades of Whatever was doing a serious disservice to the BDSM world, depicting it as if domestic violence were the new sexy. Although I am not part of that community, talking it over with my fierce feminist friends during the 1980s "sex wars" had brought to me to the belief that BDSM is about engaging with the same issues of power as I deconstruct in my academic work (sorry, back to the MILFy flirty kind of writing v. soon). When I found not one but two much more realistic BDSM stories in FAWC1, I was very pleased. Now I can recommend them to people who have Got It All Wrong, instead of fumbling about in my own amateur way. (Oh, OK, if you want me to fumble with you in an amateur way we can discuss it, 'slong as you remember that I am very lazy these days and rarely get into bed for anything less than a bottle of Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque and some diamonds).

The task in FAWC1 was to write about writing. In My Lady MSTarot cleverly provided us with a fumbling amateur writer who attempts to imitate 50 Shades of Financial Success. John Perl's idea of BDSM is as poorly researched as the original 50 Shades so a friend puts him on to Clare, a Dominatrix. Invited round for dinner, John is soon being offered a ringside view of what it means to be a sub, which he finds so sexy that ... ooops! I nearly gave it away, LOL.

This is a damn sexy story, MSTarot is a damn sexy writer whose entry into the second FAWC was my top favourite (although unfortunately in the heat of the moment the protagonists of that one forgot to practice safe sex so I can't review it here). The characters are believable and sympathetic - Clare makes you feel how scary the raw power of BDSM can be. I particularly like how MSTarot discusses the way BDSM echoes power play in the world at large: "When you work any job for 'pay' your Boss is the Dom. He uses reward, be it praise or monetary, to get you to behave. When that fails he will use threat of termination to make you do more. Sometimes more than you ever thought you would agree to do. We are a society of Subs and Doms, John Perl." (I find that kinda interesting, cuz if you ask me there are a lot of managers out there who are really subs and so they are bloody poor at managing.) The sex is no-holds-barred (literally), raw and strong so this is not one for those who are likely to go 50 shades of pale at the least provocation. I would call this a good fierce Bourbon of a story, Jack Daniels No 7 rather than Maker's Mark.

The story is riddled with typos and makes me want to whip out my red pen <snerk>, but it's so good I don't care. I am going to recommend it to you especially if you want a good thrill while pretending you are just researching the strange looking glass world of BDSM.