Reviewed by Erika von KZ and her incestuous brother


This quite stylish text caters for sight, taste, smell and touch and offers bits of elegant conversation. The writer is clearly well read and refers to de Sade (though he gets Juliette's character wrong), the Kamasutra and the French artists Crepax and Pichard.

The author seems to be familiar with the "golden rule" of erotic art - be it text or drawings - that the number of persons acting must be odd. Thus, in Chapter One, we start out with two (mature) women and a teen-aged toy-boy. When one of the women reduces her participation to that of observer, the one toying with the boy starts fantasizing about abusing a teen-aged girl (who happens to be her own daughter), thus brining the number of actors back to three - albeit that the third person is present only in her mind. But, as Rachel Welsh said, "The brain is also an erogenous zone."

There is, however, a longish text with just Nadine - a very young woman - and a male tormentor, the household's valet. Only at the end of this bit do we learn that Nadine's mother is perfectly aware of her daughter being maltreated by the valet. It would have been more fun having Mom observe the proceedings between daughter and valet, thus creating a triangle.

There are also drawn out and irrelevant musings by people of very little interest, lengthy presentations of "historical data"(?), a very long mock trail during which - surprise, surprise - Nadine is found guilty, and a full, oh so full, time schedule for the blacksmith (chains) and what not. Some readers may love Nadine's cruel mother who voluptuously enjoys watching her naked daughter being maltreated and asks that the victim be left without a gag so that she can enjoy her shrieks under the whip, but we really never get a close look at this lovely mom.

The author belongs to the school of thought who wants us to believe that being severely whipped excites the (female) victim. Sancta simplicitas.

Despite an obvious need for a radical reduction in size there are quite a few very tasty morsels.