Explorations: Emily and the Paradise-Step of Prophettown (Explorations #13)

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The thirteenth book of Explorations continues the Tales of Prophettown: the trail of strange stories about this polygamous BDSM religious community leads Emily to the edgiest D/s story she's ever read: family discipline, water-sports, punishment-machines, pseudo-incest, all feature as customs of Prophettown designed to make men feel dominant and women feel submissive.

The real Emily, writing this story for her fantasy-self to read, finds herself unable to stop exploring these frightening edges of her imagination. She is as always there in the margins, trying to learn more about this essential part of herself that sometimes seems marvelous, and sometimes terrifying.

This book of Explorations contains the following sorts of fantasy that you may wish to avoid: Mf, Mmf, MFff, anal, sex-machines, spanking, whipping, intense pseudo-incest, and water-sports . It's intended for over-18 audiences who, like me, are interested in exploring the lines between pleasure and pain, dominance and submission, and fantasy and reality. All characters depicted are consenting adults.

The Explorations series is a unique take on BDSM above all because of the strong individual voice of Emily Tilton herself, manifestly shaping the fantasy-elaborations of the series. Because Emily is interested in helping herself and others understand how BDSM can be lived within a mostly vanilla existence, the way most of us have to live it, Explorations has a unique element that Emily hopes will set it apart and make it useful: Emily has created a fantasy-version of herself , whose fantasies and "realities" are the central subject of the stories of Explorations--but the real Emily also keeps her authorial, real voice in the margins, explaining and analyzing, and revealing from time to time the much more mundane, real version of the things Emily has transformed in the story of her fantasy-self. This doubling of the "I" in the first-person narrative of Explorations makes the series worth exploring all on its own.