I have encountered enough flogging and paddling of buttocks, calves, genitals and thighs to last me a lifetime. Pleasure and pain were so much intertwined in this tale and what surprised me too I was actually able to be shocked. The captors are all described as tall, big, or imposing. It’s about power. The difference in status between the Lords and Ladies and the slaves are emphasized through clothes, positioning, and even size. Even though this book is nearly all sex, all the time, it’s not REALLY about sex.
Reading about “organs” and “buttocks” and such was strange. “Cock” is probably as colourful as it gets. Okay, so what about the sex? First of all, I’ve never read an erotic story with such clean language. All these young people fucking and no one gets pregnant? No diseases? Girls never menstruate and guys are always at attention the second they’re required to be? But, you know, fairy tale, so I can live with all that. There is no explanation as to WHY she falls in love with the Prince in the first place or just blindly accepts her fate. Like a horse!) Supposedly Beauty is okay with being beaten, raped, and humiliated because she’s In Love with the Prince, and he’s so dreamy she’s just constantly in a state of impending orgasm. The castle is full of slaves like Beauty, and the Lords and Ladies who use and abuse them (and grooms – the slaves all have their own groom. The dark eroticism saturated the pages along with Beauty’s inner struggles and I was fascinated with what Anne Rice would make of this familiar fairy-tale.īeauty is taken to the Prince’s castle in some vaguely middle-age European kingdom. To say I was surprised after closing this novel would be an understatement, I am so used to reading my share of romantic – erotica with a romance driven storyline – but apparently I had yet to encounter a true erotica novel where the variety in sex was the main course.įrom the second page, where the Prince tore the gown off Beauty and breaking the spell while having sex, I knew this would be a novel that would test even my boundaries. The claiming of sleeping beauty is a sexually charged, very explicit, dark and not the average run-of-the-mill novel and to my astonishment was published in 1983.
“He mounted her, parting her legs, giving the white inner flesh of her thighs a soft, deep pinch, and, clasping her right breast in his left hand, he thrust his sex into her.” For contextual reasons I will state now that “Beauty” is 15 and when the sex scene on page 2 occurs she is also unconscious. Review: Before I begin the review I want to air a word of caution although this novel has a BDSM element, and most people would think of Fifty Shades of Grey this novel does have some ethical questions raised, for example, the rape of a minor in the opening chapter.
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