Status Updates From Histoire d'O | Story of O (...

The B&D, yes, good. The D&S: perfect, no notes. The S&M… yikes. I’m sorry, there’s a balance here and the book sometimes upsets it by becoming too cruel/disturbing. I’m not really soothed by the assurances that O is actually into it, at least after the fact. I’d say that disturbing stuff hasn’t been *too* frequent, but it has cropped up (no pun intended) a few times and has made me uneasy.

I mean… it is living up to expectations. 😳 I looked at some reviews of the book on GR and a number of them objected that the sex scenes were too tame. I don’t agree with that complaint. They seem plenty explicit to me.

Latest audiobook. This is BDSM erotica which has been on my radar for a while. I have mixed feelings about it so far, as I imagine must be the point. O’s treatment is both titillating and disturbing in equal measure. Also, the first 53 minutes of this audiobook was foreword and introductions, which is kind of insane to me. Luckily, I had it playing at 1.5x speed but sheesh.