Foreword

The coding for this story might be a little skewed. I’ll just say that right up front. That’s not intentional. Instead it’s a result of my ignorance. I am not known for writing stories involving the DOM/SUB or BDSM tags. There’s a good reason for that. I don’t get it. I don’t understand why some people like to endure pain or stifling control, and why others enjoy inflicting it. I know it happens, of course. I just don’t fathom how it works, and how the partners still end up being in a meaningful relationship. I know that happens, too, regardless of my ignorance as to why. I know that subs and masters (or whatever they’re called) do have deep, meaningful relationships and that there is genuine, meaningful, positive emotion involved. I’m sure they’d call it love.

Part of why this is such a mystery to me is because I’ve never known anyone who admitted (to me) to being in that kind of relationship. I’ve traded emails with several subs, and I’ve also exchanged messages with women who said they liked to be spanked, but none of them have ever been able to explain why they enjoy this kind of relationship.

I am an author, however, and authors, by nature, have (hopefully) good imaginations. So why not take a stab at exploring this submissive/dominant kind of bond?

So that’s what this is. For those of you who don’t like BDSM, I get it. I’m not a fan, either. But this is probably, actually bdsm (intentional lower case) so I hope you’ll trust the Lubrican style, give it a try, and see if any of this makes sense to you.

And if you are a Dom or a submissive, let me know what I got right and what I got wrong. I won’t change this particular story, once it is finished and published, but I’d still like to know. I can promise you it will inform my future work.

I’ve always been a fan of that TV message: “The more you know”. Maybe you’ve seen it, too, that series of public service announcements featuring short, educational clips by famous people.

I’m not a famous person, but I’d be tickled if this actually helped expand people’s concepts about people often labeled as “different”. I generally don’t think most of us are all that different, down deep.

Finally, the germ of the plot is borrowed from another author called Ronin722. I think he posted his (or her) stuff on the Kristen Archives, but don’t quote me on that. He (or she) wrote a standard, hardcore BDSM story, which I didn’t care for (and didn’t finish reading), but the plot idea got me started wondering what a Lubrican interpretation of the idea might look like.

So, here is that interpretation.

Thanks for reading.

Bob