Book Review: Life After Promiscuity: A BDSM Love Story
- Ralph Greco, Jr.
- Jan 9, 2024
- 2 min read
As my wonderful co-host, great buddy and fantastic scribe M. Christian will tell you, there was a time that San Francisco rivaled, if not beat (with a paddle) every other city that tried to lay claim to the kinkiest place on Earth. When I visited for the YNOT convention in 2009 I got to view some of that kink at what was then kink.com’s Armory space. And for a few years after, along with Chris lots of the time, got to see those infamous BDSM-related spots the city-by-the-bay was so well-known for.
Dorothy Freed expounds on this aspect of the city, as well being led by her desires (as she says “The clit never lies,”) in her fantastic memoir/novel of self-sexual discovery, Life After Promiscuity: A BDSM Love Story.
The narrator here pulls no punches from the very start, as one would surely hope in a book about this particular subject, and thankfully Freed knows of what she speaks. This authentic delving into her sexcapades makes the near 400-pager a quick, delicious read full of naughty hot action. With her we experience plugging, “public eroticism,” orgasm denial, and lots of spanking for her “Sir”/lover/husband.
Name-dropping the people and places of San Francisco—the infamous Society of Janus, the Cannery at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, and plenty of other spots—the city comes across as much a character as anyone else we meet in the book and being a fan of both kink and the city, made Life After Promiscuity: A BDSM Love Story especially fun for me.
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