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Title: Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism by Philip Miller, Molly Devon ISBN: 0-9645960-0-8 Publisher: Mystic Rose Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (51 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not the National Geographic
Not the National Geographic
Comment: When I was a kid I'd page through the National Geographic, looking at the pictures, reading the captions, and occasionally reading some of the text on a page that looked interesting. I found myself doing the same thing with "Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns." The book has pictures on almost every page. Text subheads tell you at a glance what each section is about. It's easy to page through it, read the sections that interest you, and skip the rest.
The chapter on what toys to buy will save you many times the price of the book. The anatomy chapter makes it easy to understand where to do what to your partner, and what areas could be injured. The chapter about "flying" or mystical experience is interesting. The chapter about the types of people you'll meet at clubs is funny. The themes repeated in every chapter, on every page, are communication, respect, and safety.
I can't give the book 5 stars because the photo reproduction is awful. It looks like 1980s positive mechanical transfer (PMT), a cheap process made obsolete by computers. I read probably 10% of the text. I tried several times, but the writing rarely held my attention. But that's not a problem -- National Geographic readers probably read less than 10% of the articles, yet enjoy the magazine.
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Thomas David Kehoe, author of "Hearts and Minds: How Our Brains Are Hardwired for Relationships"
Rating: 5
Summary: Everything that you need to know to get started
Comment: If you are new to the scene and want to become familiar with the majority of the techniques that you may wish to try then this book is an excellent guide. To begin, it walks through the terminology, the basic mental and emotional elements in SM play, an overview of "scene" and how S&M relationships can be negotiated. Once the book has prepared you with the basic elements of how to enjoy S&M play, it moves into actual techniques: a safety overview, waxing, bondage, flogging, spanking and humiliation. It finishes with a discussion of how to build, transport and hide your dungeon "toys".
Even if you are an experienced scene player, it is unlikely that you are conversant with every possible type of play, so this book serves as a helpful reminder of the basic techniques. While it does not cover the more extreme types of play - water sports, blood sports or mummification, it is comprehensive in it's coverage of the most standard types of play.
Although this book is written by a hetero male dominant and a female submissive, the words of wisdom contained are applicable to everyone. I personally found that having both partner's perspective was very helpful when trying to construct my own session.
If you are looking to get into S&M, this book is a great start to begin play at home. Miss's Abernathy's Concise Guide to Slave Training is an excellent next step. And once you are feeling confident in your private relationship, SM 101 by Jay Wiseman will give you enough credibility to feel comfortable in visiting "public" scene events.
Rating: 1
Summary: Tedious, boring, touchie-feelie, "Barney SM"
Comment: Maybe this book would be all right for hets - fem sub, male dom - who are just starting to poke around, but I found the book so boring and touchie-feelie and cutesy that I found myself detesting it in no time. I could barely make it through and finished it only out of a strange sense of morbidity. It's like passing by an accident on the highway. You can't just "not look." This book is like a freaking paint by numbers. No, it's worse than that - it might as well be a coloring book. When will the "find it" word game show up? I was expecting a Captain Kangaroo pop up with every turn of the page. I have no idea what people are seeing in this book. It might be passable for beginners who want to be naughty and poke around, but it certainly shouldn't be touted as the "best book" in its class. Well, not unless it's the ONLY book in its class and the "class" has been held back several grades and sentenced to perpetual summer school. Even the cover is annoying with that twirlie script-like font and the "naughty" soccer-mom-like woman blindfolded and waiting to be "taken" in the picture. Can I wretch now? Looks like an ad for dish detergent rather than the cover of a book describing SM. Completely takes the passion out of leathersex and power dynamics but may be good for kindling in one's fireplace.
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Title: SM 101: A Realistic Introduction by Jay Wiseman ISBN: 0963976389 Publisher: Greenery Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Loving Dominant by John Warren ISBN: 1890159204 Publisher: Greenery Press (CA) Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The New Bottoming Book by Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton ISBN: 1890159352 Publisher: Greenery Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook by Jay Wiseman ISBN: 1890159131 Publisher: Greenery Press (CA) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Erotic Surrender: The Sensual Joys of Female Submission by Claudia Varrin ISBN: 0806521813 Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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