Naked Reader Book Club Discussion: Best Bondage Erotica 2012, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Thursday, March 15th, 2012 @ 8pm ET)

I always find it difficult to choose favorites, and it's especially hard in this collection of top-notch stories!

But I liked the way Rachel Kramer Bussel eases the audience into the collection with the solo story "Melting Ice" and the fairly tame (but super hot) "A Night at the Opera". Overall, I thought the way the various stories were ordered was great. less

I always find it difficult to choose favorites, and it's especially hard in this collection of top-notch stories!

But I liked the way Rachel Kramer Bussel eases the audience into the collection with the solo story "Melting Ice" and the fairly tame (but super hot) "A Night at the Opera". Overall, I thought the way the various stories were ordered was great. less

I think Rachel has a fantastic eye for picking literature. She has a great sense of theme and what people of this particular fetish are looking for when it comes to erotica. You have such a plethora of different types of bondage but it fits so perfectly in this book! less

I loved "Melting Ice", and the opera one too. Here's what Liz Coldwell said about writing that one:

"The inspiration for A Night At The Opera came from a photo of a man in a pair of bondage opera gloves, from the website of a manufacturer of bondage equipment. We'd run a piece on the company in question when I worked on Forum magazine, and I kept the photo on file because I particularly liked the image. I'm not usually a great one for male sub imagery, but this was of quite a beefy, silver fox type shown from the back, wearing nothing but his underwear and the opera gloves. That set in mind a story where the gloves were worn in what ought to be their natural habitat - an opera house - with the tension set up between the dominant, opera-loving wife and her submissive, opera-hating husband. I think if there's a battle of wills that goes beyond the usual dom/sub dynamic of needing
to have orders obeyed and instructions followed, it makes the scenario a little more interesting, and what sub wouldn't enjoy rebelling against being made to endure a type of cultural experience they particularly detest?"


I love to see where ideas come from, and how they develop. less

I've got a bit from Teresa Noelle Roberts about writing "Suffer for Me".


I wrote "Suffer for Me" because I was suffering from BDSM-erotica burnout. Yes, really. I write quite a bit in the genre, almost all male-dom, but when I set down to work on a story for Rachel, my brain froze up and I couldn't come up with a single creative idea that involved boys tying up and/or spanking girls. (You'll be glad to know I've gotten past that block. The well of warpedness has not run dry!)

Obviously it was time for a change of direction. I decided to write a heterosexual femdom story, not something I do often. Casting around for a scenario for my lovingly evil heroine and hapless, lucky hero, I remembered a presentation I'd attended at a kink event about male multiple orgasms and how to bring them about. The presenter was a gay dom, and by the end of the presentation, I suspect even the straightest and toppiest guys in there were thinking, "I'd play with him just once...so he could do that to me!" Hell, it made me wish I had a cock, and trust me, that's not my usual line of thinking!

I took some ideas from that presentation, some ideas I'd picked up from my personal interest in hypnosis, and a few ideas from my own twisted little brain and my own experiences as a sub--and a story was born. less

I've got a bit from Teresa Noelle Roberts about writing "Suffer for Me".


I wrote "Suffer for Me" because I was suffering from BDSM-erotica burnout. Yes, really. I write quite a bit in the genre, almost all male-dom, but when I set down to work on a story for Rachel, my brain froze up and I couldn't come up with a single creative idea that involved boys tying up and/or spanking girls. (You'll be glad to know I've gotten past that block. The well of warpedness has not run dry!)

Obviously it was time for a change of direction. I decided to write a heterosexual femdom story, not something I do often. Casting around for a scenario for my lovingly evil heroine and hapless, lucky hero, I remembered a presentation I'd attended at a kink event about male multiple orgasms and how to bring them about. The presenter was a gay dom, and by the end of the presentation, I suspect even the straightest and toppiest guys in there were thinking, "I'd play with him just once...so he could do that to me!" Hell, it made me wish I had a cock, and trust me, that's not my usual line of thinking!

I took some ideas from that presentation, some ideas I'd picked up from my personal interest in hypnosis, and a few ideas from my own twisted little brain and my own experiences as a sub--and a story was born. less

I've got a bit from Teresa Noelle Roberts about writing "Suffer for Me".


I wrote "Suffer for Me" because I was suffering from BDSM-erotica burnout. Yes, really. I write quite a bit in the genre, almost all male-dom, but when I set down to work on a story for Rachel, my brain froze up and I couldn't come up with a single creative idea that involved boys tying up and/or spanking girls. (You'll be glad to know I've gotten past that block. The well of warpedness has not run dry!)

Obviously it was time for a change of direction. I decided to write a heterosexual femdom story, not something I do often. Casting around for a scenario for my lovingly evil heroine and hapless, lucky hero, I remembered a presentation I'd attended at a kink event about male multiple orgasms and how to bring them about. The presenter was a gay dom, and by the end of the presentation, I suspect even the straightest and toppiest guys in there were thinking, "I'd play with him just once...so he could do that to me!" Hell, it made me wish I had a cock, and trust me, that's not my usual line of thinking!

I took some ideas from that presentation, some ideas I'd picked up from my personal interest in hypnosis, and a few ideas from my own twisted little brain and my own experiences as a sub--and a story was born. less

Thank you! To a large degree I'm at the mercy of what comes into my inbox, but I try to have a range, especially in a bondage collection, of scenarios/settings, people doing the bondage/being bound, types of bondage and types of bondage tools. I have a fondness for stories where there's bondage plus something else going on, like tickling or spanking or teasing or hot wax or...okay, I am getting carried away! But I enjoy taking a specific topic and broadening it, if that makes sense. Thanks to everyone here for your close reading. I also recommend searching for bondage items here on EF and seeing what comes up, always a great way to incorporate toys into your erotica. less

I've got a bit from Teresa Noelle Roberts about writing "Suffer for Me".


I wrote "Suffer for Me" because I was suffering from BDSM-erotica burnout. Yes, really. I write quite a bit in the genre, almost all male-dom, but when I set down to work on a story for Rachel, my brain froze up and I couldn't come up with a single creative idea that involved boys tying up and/or spanking girls. (You'll be glad to know I've gotten past that block. The well of warpedness has not run dry!)

Obviously it was time for a change of direction. I decided to write a heterosexual femdom story, not something I do often. Casting around for a scenario for my lovingly evil heroine and hapless, lucky hero, I remembered a presentation I'd attended at a kink event about male multiple orgasms and how to bring them about. The presenter was a gay dom, and by the end of the presentation, I suspect even the straightest and toppiest guys in there were thinking, "I'd play with him just once...so he could do that to me!" Hell, it made me wish I had a cock, and trust me, that's not my usual line of thinking!

I took some ideas from that presentation, some ideas I'd picked up from my personal interest in hypnosis, and a few ideas from my own twisted little brain and my own experiences as a sub--and a story was born. less

Thank you! I was so pleased to see stories about self-bondage, something I hadn't read a lot of before. Also wanted to let everyone know I'm reading for Best Bondage Erotica 2013 through May 1, but earlier stories are encouraged (I already have a few on my short list). Details are at link less