Erobintica has just written a blog post about Rachel Kramer Bussell’s recently published anthology Please, Sir: Stories of Female Submission. She muses on the attraction of submission and asks the writers of the various stories to comment on what their intentions and motivations were for the stories they wrote. Not only is it well worth reading the post, but the comments are also very interesting as many of the anthology’s authors and the editor have responded.
My story in this anthology is ‘The Negotiation’. It was a markedly different voice than the one I usually use. It has almost none of the human complexities that I usually thread through my stories. It is, in fact, a piece of satire, using the language of corporate takeover to describe sexual power dynamics.
“‘I think we have moved past the initial stage of the negotiations,’ he panted. Between her legs, the woman felt the hot, sticky head of her opponents cock; he snugged the tip deep into the furrow of her cunt and teased it back and forth tantalizingly.
‘This isn’t a buyout, is it?’ she panted hoarsely, struggling beneath him. All her strategies, all her carefully laid plans had come to naught. Her position was untenable, her gambit lost.
‘No,’ her opponent grunted, pushing his thick pulsing cock into the tight wet velvet cave. ‘This, my dear,’ he gasped, thrusting in deep and holding himself there, buried to the hilt, ‘is a hostile takeover.'”
What fascinates me most about mainstream society is its unwillingness to acknowledge the domination and submission that goes on, on an almost constant basis, in practically every area. Nice people don’t want to call what they do to each other in the everyday world ‘BDSM’ and no one is wearing leather or wielding a riding crop but, for all intents and purposes, these power dynamics are acted out in the courtroom, the boardroom, the school room, the city council, the prison, the church, the senate. Everywhere.
I guess, my point was, that at least in the realm of BDSM, we are honest enough to admit what is going on and, because we are honest, we have a measure of control over who does what to us.