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Dewey Decimal Number: 613 EAN: 9780806520896 ISBN: 0806520892 Label: Citadel Manufacturer: Citadel Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: August 01, 2000 Publisher: Citadel Studio: Citadel Editorial Review: Product Description: Are you looking for something novel in your sex life, a new and exciting way to express your most intimate feelings? The Art of Sensual Female Dominance is an introduction to a different, more daring love-style. Leather one night, lace the next, D&S can provide the techniques and confidence to turn you into a different woman every night, the possibilities limited only by your imagination. Besides bringing adventure to the bedroom, female dominance can be liberating and life-changing, putting you in touch with your female power and heightening your self-esteem. Related Items:      see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating:  - Women Really Are Better Writers Than MenThe audience for this book will quickly discover that this woman knows how to write and she knows her subject backwards and forwards, and inside and out. This is a more advanced look at D&S and S&M than the majority of those on the market. While most of the techniques described in minute detail in this guidebook are far beyond this reader's personal experience, there is always something useful for anyone to learn from reading it. It does answer some of the nagging questions that everyone curious about the scene seeks to know--even if they aren't going to personally try those most advanced experiments in extreme sensation, domination, fisting, humiliation, slave training, water sports or exhibition and group party games. Ditto for actually trying pony training, caning, using the bullwhip and violet wands. This book purports to be intended for women to turn their consenting monogamous adult male partners into happy, sexually satisfied silly putty. The boast is justified. As a male, this reviewer doubts that many men could describe the "in's and out's" of the psychology of humiliation, mind games or other detailed techniques for driving males crazy with desire half as well as this former dominatrix-turned-author. There is no question from the material covered in the book that this woman has vast experience with her subject matter and she doesn't hesitate to share her knowledge in excruciating detail after detail. Even the readers of these games will know instinctively that what she is describing works--sometimes it even begets results just from reading her thoughts as she transfers them to the printed page. Because this book is much more advanced than most on the subject, a lot of time is devoted to playing safely. Two different anatomy charts of the male body are included with the danger zones for each activity clearly marked. It's like a scene out of the old movie classic "Spartacus" where the ex-gladiator drill sergeant is using Kirk Douglas's body to paint the various kill and injury areas to show the other would-be gladiators. One doesn't have to read far to understand how fragile the human body really is. It's obvious why Varrin goes to the trouble of pointing out the danger points for some of her extreme S&M games. For instance she reminds the reader never to use the violet wand above the waist and to know if your partner has any kind of heart trouble or a pace maker. Electricity is always dangerous even in mild doses. Like any serious writer or practitioner of these D&S and S&M scenes, communication, knowledgeable consent, detailed planning, safe sex, and more communication even during and after the scene is completed are indispensable. The reason for the increasing popularity of this kind of play is simple: done correctly it can make a sexual tryst last for hours or even all night and into the next day. Where else can a loving couple have seemingly endless sex? And because it is so satisfying, great care must be taken to protect one's playmate from any kind of injury or real, unwanted harm including utter exhaustion. This book will definitely provide enlightening reading for interested would-be participants as well as the people who are simply curious about the practices described. It's one of the better tomes on the complex subject. And while it's primarily intended as a guide for women to use on their willing, kinky male lovers or husbands, most of the techniques can easily be adapted for any combination of males and females. Even games for "hen parties" are suggested. How many male submissives have lust-filled dreams of being the focal point of a house or dungeon party comprised entirely, or mostly, of skilled dominatrixes with him as the door prize or party favor for all of them to sample? Rating: - Loved itI think this book is great. Its great for the beginner Domme or the couple who want to spice up their sex lives. You can take it all or take bits and pieces. She really makes it feel ok and comfortable about trying BDSM. She is really guiding you by the hand in a first experience if you don't know what you are doing. And she covers the more advance activities briefly. www.funsexxxtoys.com Rating:  - For the novice, with lots of filler and some misinformationThis book is geared toward the extreme novice; I found it to be very fluffy, filled with a lot of anecdotal padding. Some of her information is outright wrong (A year to heal a clitoral hood piercing?! Has this woman *been* to a piercing parlor? Seriously, just ignore everything she says in the chapter on exotic practices.) and much more of it not especially useful. Her estimation of what play belongs in the realm of the expert player is just silly in cases. If you have any bdsm background to speak of, save your money. Rating: - If you were fascinated by Lady Heather on CSI.....Then you will love this book! Claudia Varrin is the Dr Ruth of the B&D scene. In addition to being able to understand and explore the world of dominants and submissives, she also provides a terrific amount of psychological insights into men and women. She outlines the worlds of the dominants and submissives and gives rules and safety guides for those who wish to choose this lifestyle. Her insights are also helpful in everyday life: for instance why do so many men stay in relationships with women who are absolutely hateful, demanding and humiliating to them? Why would a strong powerful businessman pay a woman to demean him sexually? Who has the real power in these relationships? The book is good because it is honest and no nonsence about a taboo subject that has always been with us. It provides loads of information even if you are not into the scene. If you have been married 30 years and just want to be the woman on top, or ask for a little zing after reading this book you may find your husband thrilled you bought it and brought things up. The book focusses on the sexiest organ in the body---the brain. Ms. Varrin also has another book out which I have not yet read, but I feel if it is half as informative it too is well worth picking up. Rating: - A Fem Dom's OpinionThis book is a great introduction into the world of Female Domination. It's a bit more on the sensual, erotic side. A great follow-up read for this book would be Claudia Varrin's other work entitled Female Domination: Rituals and Practices. |
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