Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission

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Authors: Rachel Kramer Bussel,Donna George Storey

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INTRODUCTION: SURRENDERING TO PLEASURE—AND POWER
 
I
’m not surprised to learn that female submission is a hot topic. For the many women who fantasize about giving up control, bending over, hearing the click of a pair of handcuffs, or engaging in kinky role-play, that desire can consume them—and lead them to some wicked fantasies.
The stories here run the gamut, from couples engaged in hardcore kink to the psychology of submission, with everything from coming in public to submitting to a Krav Maga teacher.
Whether you know you’re a submissive (sometimes or all the time, or just in your head) or you’re simply curious, this book provides an opportunity to read about things you might want to try, some you’d never dare, and some that will likely stay in your mind (and other body parts) for a long time to come. For me, the best erotica not only arouses my senses and my libido, but takes me all the way into the character who’s experiencing such deliciously exciting erotic encounters. It teaches me about myself and about what gets other people off. It gives me fodder to bring back to the bedroom and makes me surrender to its heated words.
These encounters are mostly focused on the women, the brats, the subs, the bad girls, but in them, you will find the most wicked of tops—wickedly insightful, wickedly mean, wickedly sadistic, wickedly keen on prompting pleasure out of these women who have chosen them to surrender to. These are the men who know the right time to push a woman’s buttons—and boundaries—to concoct vivid experiments in kink. Some of these tales are from their point of view, offering insight into what it’s like to desire a woman, to be bound and at their mercy.
I shouldn’t have to say this, but I feel I must: these stories are not about men violating women. They are not about women being abused or mistreated. They are about women accessing a side of themselves that many of us bury, precisely because we feel it’s not “feminist” enough or is somehow otherwise politically incorrect to want to kneel, bend over, open our mouths, spread our legs, submit, and surrender. As Dominic says in “Power Over Power” to his student, Jackie: “You’re looking for power. In your own way, getting fucked rough like that will make you feel powerful. Is that right?” Vince echoes this to his wife in “Veronica’s Body,” when he instructs her, “Don’t ever back down from me.” He wants a woman who can meet him in bed as an equal partner even as he whips her until she trembles. When he disciplines her, it’s an act of love as much as, if not more than, an act of kinkiness.
Good BDSM erotica makes you understand all the emotions that can come into play when, well, playing: there can be uncertainty, nervousness, fear, excitement. I selected each of the 22 stories in
Surrender
because they’re blazingly hot and because they illuminate some aspect of submission that I think is important.
The authors of the stories you’re about to read understand the art of submission and the thrill of surrender, whether that is personal space, sight (“Without Eyes” by Terri Pray) or culinary choices (“Lunch” by Elizabeth Coldwell). What the women here want is to give up part of themselves to gain something else. They may still be skittish, but overcoming their fears, surrendering to them, yields beauty, pleasure and, in its own way, power.
In the very creative opener by Donna George Storey, “Dear Professor Pervert,” a student learns several very kinky lessons about how to get off—and follow orders. With “Daddy’s Girl,” Teresa Noelle Roberts takes the topic of Daddy/girl play (which, I fully confess, is not something I normally enjoy reading) and turns it into a kinky role-playing tale that stays hot throughout while also explaining the Daddy dynamic. Emerald delivers a riveting tale of power play in “Power Over Power,” where a Krav Maga instructor shows his student that the heart of her true power lies in her owning her submission and baring more than just her body.
In “The Chair” by Lolita Lopez, the title object becomes the ultimate sex toy for Cal to use in teasing and tormenting Lily, while Susan in Terri Pray’s “Without Eyes” goes from being irate to being on her knees in moments.
Anticipation is often the hottest part of a scene, with the sub wondering when and how the action will happen. In “The Hardest Part,” Alison Tyler offers up the exquisite torture of waiting for your kinky fantasies to come true:
I’m over his lap. I’ve been needing a spanking for too long, and he’s been making me wait. In spite of everything I’ve done, he’s ignored the signals. I’ve been bratty. I’ve been bad. I may as well have worn a t-shirt with the words SPANK ME in bold scarlet letters across the front.
 
In “Rapunzel” by Jacqueline Applebee, when a woman agrees to give up her long locks, she bares herself in an unexpected way (any woman who’s ever submitted to a hairdresser’s chair knows the tension and masochism involved!), while in “The Royalton-A Daray Tale,” Tess Danesi makes a blindfold fantasy come true in an upscale hotel.
With “The Sun is an Ordinary Story,” Shanna Germain takes something you wouldn’t expect to read about in an erotica book—cancer—and offers up a vitally human story about the transformative power of kink and how getting back to playing rough makes one woman feel more alive than ever.
In my story “Belted,” the narrator wonders what it is about her lover that turns her on quite so much:
Is it the belt that makes you come? The leather, the thrash, the pain, the jolt? Is it the force behind it? Is it the noises he makes as he does it, the hitches of breath that are nothing like your shuddering sobs but are music to your ears nonetheless—is that what makes you finally go over the edge? Is it him holding you down, him promising you pain that may or may not come?
 
I love stories that delve into the psychology of BDSM, and few writers do that better than Elizabeth Coldwell. With “Lunch,” she will not only have you eyeing your fellow deli customers with a keener eye, but also show you the erotic potential within even the smallest decisions, once you’ve given up the decisionmaking power to someone else.
Erotica impresario Thomas S. Roche gives us “Schoolgirl and Angel,” in which a top and his sub find a new plaything at a dungeon party, one who’s a little more mouthy than they’re used to. Serena winds up taking off her panties in public, among many other things, in Teresa Noelle Roberts’ “First Date with the Dom.” With “In Control,” online negotiation between SLUTSLAVE and her master turns to him using chopsticks to tweak her sensitive nipples before moving on to heavier equipment. Author M. Christian captures the silent but powerful interplay between top and bottom, those moments that say more than sometimes words ever can: “She lifted her head, looking long at me, breathing heavy and hard. Her eyes flicked with a bit of fear but more than anything, a kind of plea:
More.”
Sometimes a bratty girl doesn’t even know she’s begging to be put in her place, or how much she might like someone else taking control. In “Wild Child” by Matt Conklin, an older man sees beneath the veneer of the young woman sitting next to him on a plane, all too happy to show her what true rebellion is all about. In “Brianna’s Fire” by Amanda Earl, a slave is put to the test, while “Forceful Personalities” come into play in Dominic Santi’s contribution when Christa takes a while to submit, even though she wants to desperately. That tension between wanting to be as slutty as we are in our fantasies, and actually doing it, plays out in numerous other stories as well. In the aforementioned “Veronica’s Body” by Isabelle Gray, a husband and wife manage to leave behind their everyday personae in order to communicate on a more intense level, one that deepens their marriage as she lets him use her, both of them getting off on the experience. Sightseeing isn’t just for those wearing fanny packs! A tourist attraction provides a welcome opportunity for public sex in Justine Elyot’s “The London O.”
In Fiona Locke’s “Pink Cheeks,” a woman who’s been lurking in another online forum finds out what happens when someone she sees every day finds out her naughtiest secrets. Finally, in Gwen Masters’ “How Bad Do You Want It?” she asks the title question, which I might turn over to you, dear reader. I have a feeling you want it very, very badly, “it” being all the most out-there, I-could-never (yet I can’t stop thinking about them) fantasies that flirt at the edges of your mind when you are getting yourself off, alone or with a partner.
I invite you to surrender to these stories, whether they make you blush or squirm, whether they make you curious, wet, excited, or even a little uneasy. I want these stories to show you the range of ways a woman can surrender, and prove that us submissive women are in no way shrinking wallflowers. We are sexy precisely because we have the strength to say “yes” to the “degrading” thoughts that float through our minds and power our orgasms.
 
Rachel Kramer Bussel
New York City
DEAR PROFESSOR PERVERT
 
Donna George Storey
Assignment #4: Bring yourself to orgasm without using your fingers, hands, vibrator or other sex toy. Record the experience in your Masturbation Journal, following the usual guidelines. Your last submission showed much improvement—the use of imagery and language was excellent. Keep up the good work. Sincerely, Professor Pervert.
 
I
click CLOSE MAIL and smile. The professor probably thinks this one’s going to be a challenge, but I already came up with the answer ten years ago—back when I was in college the first time around. Doing a “no-hands” is actually pretty easy. You bunch up your pillow, straddle it like a lover, and work your hips just so while you play with your nipples. It feels great, plus you get a good core workout.
Of course, I’ll be required to confess that I’m bringing prior experience to the assignment, but I figure I can make up the lost points with an extrasteamy journal entry. I was pretty inhibited at the beginning, but the professor’s right. I am improving.
I stroll over to the linen closet and take out a towel. Today I have about two hours to complete the assignment and write it up. If I don’t have my paper in his inbox by 9:00 p.m. London time, there will be “penalties.” Afterward I’ll have just enough time to shower and get to campus for my real summer school class, The Twentieth Century British Novel.

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