(you might not want to read this if easily offended by things of a sexual/explicit nature. You’ve been warned…)
I mentioned previously that I had bought the Anne Rice ‘Beauty’ trilogy. Well, I’ve finished the first one and here are my thoughts thus far:
- being spanked with a wooden paddle isn’t very arousing to me
- non-consensual anal sex isn’t very arousing to me
- I didn’t realise females could get so…wet so quickly (which is funny, I happen to be female, last time I checked)
- rape in general is not overly arousing to me
The first third of the first book was pretty interesting, but it kind of gets repetitive. Slave gets stripped, slave gets spanked, slave gets aroused, slave doesn’t get laid, slave gets punished…and so on.
Don’t get me wrong, some of it is really hot. Particularly when the sex is consensual. I have started the second one and only just noticed that the novels claim to be ‘an erotic novel of discipline, love and surrender, for the enjoyment of men and women’. I should get a male friend of mine (M?) to try reading some of the first one and see what he thinks. But I don’t really consider much of it erotic, it’s probably more pornographic than erotic.
I was also under the impression that BDSM was consensual? It was in Sacher-Masoch’s Venus In Furs…
Hmm. Whatever. I much prefer Anais Nin - her stories are really hot. Hmm, which reminds me, I wonder if T has finished reading Alan Moore’s Lost Girls? That’s a tricky one because it has a lot of paedophilia in it (as well as incest). It’s actually pretty confronting.
Violent_Kitten | 06-Jul-08 at 11:29 pm | Permalink
I haven’t heard of the ‘Beauty’ series, but I think I would agree with all your points.
Lost Girls does sound confronting. Is that the one you were talking about earlier?
nashiitashii | 07-Jul-08 at 12:33 am | Permalink
Arousal can be really quick and easy depending upon the chemistry between the partners. There are partners that I’ve had that could get the same arousal reaction from me as in the Sleeping Beauty novels, and I’ve had partners who’d have to work to get me interested at all. It’s very highly situationally dependent for most of us.
Also, what’s Anne Rice’s obsession with big, fluffy pubic hair?
Grace Notes @ Snarkattack | 07-Jul-08 at 12:41 am | Permalink
@ViolentKitten - I’m pretty sure I posted a link to the Beauty series in a previous blog post. Here we go.
Apparently, ‘non-con’ as it’s called is popular among some people. Wow, makes me feel…prudish. I consider myself fairly open-minded but I just can’t dig it.
Yeah, I did mention Lost Girls earlier this year when I was reading it. It’s just amazing, but yes, definitely challenging.
@nashiitashii - ah yes, actually, you have a point there (I dare say this was actually pointed out to me by a…partner…the other day. Sorry, probably too much information)
As for the pubic hair thing? Bonked if I know. Also, I get the whole oiling up a person’s body (yum) but oiling up their pubes? Whatever, haha.
Violent_Kitten | 07-Jul-08 at 8:49 am | Permalink
Wow, bit of a bummer really to be woken up after 100 years to get carted off into slavery!
Yes true, it does depend on the partner, the time of month and time of life I guess!
Ya, part of me is open-minded and part of me is..not!