Now, at
last, I’m recommending a female writer of femdom fiction. And appropriately enough,
I do so on bended knee, acknowledging this woman as by far the best writer I’ve
ever encountered in the genre—and I mean going all the way back to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
(Venus in Furs), John Glassco (Harriet Marbury), and the pseudonymous
“Viscount Ladywood” (Gynecocracy).
She’s an Englishwoman
who writes under the name of “Molly Sands”—and that’s the sum total of data to
be gleaned from her Amazon Author Page. In the last three years Sands has published
three femdom novelettetes (released initially in installments):
All three stories
are beautifully crafted and realized, but the last one, A New Devotion, is to my way of thinking an almost perfect work of
art, from first word to last.
Like its
predecessors, Devotion is an erotic
tour-de-force, in which Sands charts the intricate metamorphosis of a mostly
vanilla couple over the course of a few climactic days into a full-blown femdom
dynamic, complete with major kink and cuckolding.
Yes, it’s a
fantastic sexual voyage, but one that’s emotionally and viscerally real thanks
to Sands’ descriptive powers and mastery of her subject matter. A particular trick
of hers is to shift the narrative viewpoint back and forth between husband and
wife, giving full character dimension to each exciting or explosive event.
Is there a
moral? Frankly, her books are so darned exciting, even on a fifth read, that no
moral is needed, at least for this submissive male reader. But, sure, I can
think of one. How about the warning given by female supremacist psychologist Elise Sutton to submissive or wannabe submissive husbands, who yearn for their lovely wives to dominate them
completely:
“Be careful what you wish for! You
just may get it.”
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Finally, to
whet your appetite, here’s a brief sample of Molly Sands playing fast and loose
with the whole notion of coercion vs. consensuality:
“Well,
James,” Catherine said sharply. “Do you want this to end? Do you want to stop
being my slave?”
He
lifted his head and looked into her eyes. He’d never seen her look so beautiful
and, for a moment, he wondered if she was a mortal woman at all. Such beauty
could only belong to an angel or goddess come to claim him for her own.
“You
need to answer,” she told him, “and you need to answer honestly. Do you want
this to stop?”
“No,”
he said, a current of fear tingling in his blood.
“You
want to be my slave?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll
stop if you want. All you have to do is say the word.”
“I
know.”
“I’m
not forcing you.”
“I
know you’re not.”
“You
don’t want it to stop?”
“No,
Mistress.”
“There’ll
be no going back.”
“I
know that”
“So
this is your decision? You agree to be my slave?”
“Yes,
Mistresss,” he said, laying his head on her soft lap, feeling again the
exquisite drowning feeling he’d come to crave.
“Even
though you know what it will mean?”
“Yes,
Mistress.”
“You
won’t be my husband any more. You’ll be my slave and I’ll be free to do as I
please. Do you understand that? Really and truly, do you?”
“Yes,
Mistress,” he said from a place beyond pride.
“Then
let me hear you ask for what you want.”
“Please,”
he begged her, “please be my Mistress and make me your slave.”
“Very
well, James,” she said in a grave voice, “I will.”
(From A New Devotion
by Molly Sands)
3 comments:
All three of her books are on Amazon under the title: The Rule of Love:Tales of Joy and Transgression.
Like Mark I think Molly Sands is great. I hope she will write more books.
She just describes the male psychology of submission so well.
Hi. Long follower of your blog. I have to concur. Just picked up Cruel Heaven and I must say it's an excellent read. You can honestly feel the mistress/slave dynamics in use and directly relate to the slave. I plan to get the other books as well...
I've just finished A new devotion by Molly Sands and while it's well written enough overall the relationship it depicts is abusive. For example
1. The more power the female character gains over her husband/slave the more she despises him.
2. In one scene she returns home drunk and frustated because she decides not to have sex with another man. She then proceeds to humiliate her husband/slave. She also asks him to fetch a riding so she can beat him. He lies to her and tells her that he was unable to find the crop.
Any dominant who takes up their drunken frustation on their submissive is dangerous.
The book also falls into the annoying cliché of all a dominant woman needs is a man with a big cock to sort her out.
The relationship depicted in 50 shades is often described as being abusive. Well abuse is abuse and passes should not be given merely because it's a femdom dynamic. The author might write well but it's obvious that she knows nothing about a D/S dynamic
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