Q: How does "The Vanilla Dominatrix" relate to your novel "The Chastity Belt"?

I wrote my erotic femdom novel, "The Chastity Belt", a long time back, and really it was a way of thinking through my own approach to BDSM. None of the... love interests... were really self-aware kinksters.

Each of the three women uses Mark's very real disempowerment to fulfill their very real and particular need:

• Felicity needs to flirt and get her rocks off. (Send-Receive)
• Moira needs to torture and use Mark without consequences. (Mostly Send Only because she's not interacting with him, just hurting him.)
• Cassandra, at first enjoys making love without a penis (Send-Receive), but really needs the catharsis of hurting and and mistreating Mark (Send Only) before finally treating  him as her service orientated slave (Shutdown).

So, each of these women ends up as a Vanilla Dominatrix, though with the possibility of excursions into Fetish.

However, they end up doing this full time. In reality, I'm very keen on the part-time slave approach.