The Price of Submission - True Stories From a Life In Leather

health, fitness, sexuality · EN-US

The Price of Submission is a personal, candid, and sometimes irreverent journey through nearly three decades in the kink scene, told from the perspective of a leather fetishist, masochist, and submissive. Hi. I'm Leather Captive. From my earliest fascination with the fetish illustrations of John Willie to my experiences with professional dominatrices, I tell the stories of the sessions that were incredible, the sessions that went spectacularly wrong, and the strange, funny, uncomfortable, and occasionally profound moments in between. But this isn’t BDSM 101, and I’m not here to teach anyone how to be kinky. This is one person’s story of fetish, fantasy, pain, power, money, desire, and what it means to be submissive in a capitalist society where even surrender can come with a price tag. I’ll also look at how the kink scene I’ve known since the late 1990s has changed in the 21st century. I’ll offer my observations and criti