Erotic Surrender - Claudia Varrin

Reviewed By: Kashiko Black
Review Date: June 23, 2012
Category: Instructional, Informational, BDSM, Kink, Heterosexual, Sex, Submissive

Fetishes/Kinks Found Within: Anal, Bondage, Control, Golden Showers, Oral sex, Power Exchange, Role Play, Rope Bondage, Spanking, Toys, Water Sports

Back Cover Summary:

In an age of liberated sexuality, sexually submissive women often feel misunderstood or ignored. Now, Claudia Varrin, professional dominatrix and a private submissive, shatters the myths about S&M relationships and emphasizes the emotional and physical benefits that can be derived from sensual submission. Erotic Surrender guides you toward a newfound sexual enrichment that can ehighten intimacy and trust between partners, inside and outside the bedroom. Discover: the art of bondate, discipline, and humiliation; the pleasures of objectification, body worhsip, and sensory deprivation; erotic scenarios for age regression, fetishes, and role play; the joys of embracing pain and the limits of punishment; sensual mantras, pillow talk, and the secret codes between slave and master. Turn your fantasies into a cathartic reality, lose your inhibitions, and redefine your boundaries. Now you can safely explore the outer reaches of your sexual imagination by giving yourself totally to your partner... and to the empowering pleasures of Erotic Surrender.

Reviewer Comments on Rating:

This book is a best suited to a beginner looking into the submissive roles within heterosexual couples. It paints BDSM in a softer light and gives plenty of personal narratives/role play scenarios. I found this book difficult to read through and found many points in which I was exasperated. The author makes several references to BDSM and sex as a "dark garden". I personally did not care for this imagery as I did not identify with it and many of the places where it was used I felt were not entirely appropriate or helpful. She also made several mentions of sex magic, sometimes referring it to a pagan sense and other times not with no explanation. She gives the impression of the spirituality of BDSM without every really discussing it until a short portion at the end of the book. I felt many of the things she spends a considerable amount of time on required no more than a mention (how many of us need explicit showering directions?) and other subjects that should have warranted more attention (such as safety or sub space) received just barely more than a mention. I found this book had nothing to offer to anyone who is not at the basic beginner level and due to some of the oversights I would only recommend this book to a beginner as a supplement to other literature.