Product Description

Are you looking for something novel in your sex life, a new and exciting way to express your most intimate feelings? The Art of Sensual Female Dominance is an introduction to a different, more daring love-style. Leather one night, lace the next, D&S can provide the techniques and confidence to turn you into a different woman every night, the possibilities limited only by your imagination. Besides bringing adventure to the bedroom, female dominance can be liberating and life-changing, putting you in touch with your female power and heightening your self-esteem.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93416 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Author
Many [players] feel that, with planning and the love of a caring partner, D&S can be a safe way to heal, change, and grow. Although each partner is strong enough to stand alone, each needs the other for the acceptance all humans crave, for validation, for someone to trust with the erotic fantasies in their secret heart. As you play at D&S, never forget that you are holding your partner's trust and fantasies in your hand, and extend around him the protective shield he needs at this time. Enjoy your time at the "top," but remember the one who put you there.

From the Back Cover
Do you have a strange fascination with riding crops, even though you've never been on a horse? Do you gaze lovingly at ship's moorings, sensing there are better things to tie up than boats? If you do, then here is your permission to explore the dark side of your fantasies!

The Art of Sensual Female Dominance is a tasteful, insightful, and often amusing guide for women who want to incorporate domination into their love relationship and for those who just wish to play and have fun. It is a woman's intoduction to a different, more daring lovestyle that can spice up life in the bedroom and out. Claudia Varrin is a sophisticated lifestyle dominatrix who is highly regarded for her expertise in the multi-dimensional aspects of dominance. Writing from her D&S heart as well as her personal experience, her book discusses communication and trust in the D&S relationship as well as risk and safety factors. The book includes illustrations helpful for beginners, anatomy depictions for discipline and trampling, and true stories relating some of her favorite experiences with male submissives. Miss Varrin will guide the budding domina in the step-by-step techniques necessary to conduct the first D&S encounter and to get in touch with the inner power and self-control required to dominate another person.

About the Author
Claudia Varrin is a former professional dominatrix and an active and well-known member of the fetish underground. She is the author of Female Dominance, The Female Dominant, Erotic Surrender and other books and articles that reflect her belief in the rewards of consensual D&S sex. She travels widely to BDSM events and conventions, fetishist workshops, and other gatherings of the erotically open-minded in the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. She lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Women Really Are Better Writers Than Men
The audience for this book will quickly discover that this woman knows how to write and she knows her subject backwards and forwards, and inside and out. This is a more advanced look at D&S and S&M than the majority of those on the market. While most of the techniques described in minute detail in this guidebook are far beyond this reader's personal experience, there is always something useful for anyone to learn from reading it. It does answer some of the nagging questions that everyone curious about the scene seeks to know--even if they aren't going to personally try those most advanced experiments in extreme sensation, domination, fisting, humiliation, slave training, water sports or exhibition and group party games. Ditto for actually trying pony training, caning, using the bullwhip and violet wands.
This book purports to be intended for women to turn their consenting monogamous adult male partners into happy, sexually satisfied silly putty. The boast is justified. As a male, this reviewer doubts that many men could describe the "in's and out's" of the psychology of humiliation, mind games or other detailed techniques for driving males crazy with desire half as well as this former dominatrix-turned-author. There is no question from the material covered in the book that this woman has vast experience with her subject matter and she doesn't hesitate to share her knowledge in excruciating detail after detail. Even the readers of these games will know instinctively that what she is describing works--sometimes it even begets results just from reading her thoughts as she transfers them to the printed page.
Because this book is much more advanced than most on the subject, a lot of time is devoted to playing safely. Two different anatomy charts of the male body are included with the danger zones for each activity clearly marked. It's like a scene out of the old movie classic "Spartacus" where the ex-gladiator drill sergeant is using Kirk Douglas's body to paint the various kill and injury areas to show the other would-be gladiators.
One doesn't have to read far to understand how fragile the human body really is. It's obvious why Varrin goes to the trouble of pointing out the danger points for some of her extreme S&M games. For instance she reminds the reader never to use the violet wand above the waist and to know if your partner has any kind of heart trouble or a pace maker. Electricity is always dangerous even in mild doses.
Like any serious writer or practitioner of these D&S and S&M scenes, communication, knowledgeable consent, detailed planning, safe sex, and more communication even during and after the scene is completed are indispensable. The reason for the increasing popularity of this kind of play is simple: done correctly it can make a sexual tryst last for hours or even all night and into the next day. Where else can a loving couple have seemingly endless sex? And because it is so satisfying, great care must be taken to protect one's playmate from any kind of injury or real, unwanted harm including utter exhaustion.
This book will definitely provide enlightening reading for interested would-be participants as well as the people who are simply curious about the practices described. It's one of the better tomes on the complex subject. And while it's primarily intended as a guide for women to use on their willing, kinky male lovers or husbands, most of the techniques can easily be adapted for any combination of males and females. Even games for "hen parties" are suggested. How many male submissives have lust-filled dreams of being the focal point of a house or dungeon party comprised entirely, or mostly, of skilled dominatrixes with him as the door prize or party favor for all of them to sample?

Loved it
I think this book is great. Its great for the beginner Domme or the couple who want to spice up their sex lives. You can take it all or take bits and pieces. She really makes it feel ok and comfortable about trying BDSM. She is really guiding you by the hand in a first experience if you don't know what you are doing. And she covers the more advance activities briefly.

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For the novice, with lots of filler and some misinformation
This book is geared toward the extreme novice; I found it to be very fluffy, filled with a lot of anecdotal padding. Some of her information is outright wrong (A year to heal a clitoral hood piercing?! Has this woman *been* to a piercing parlor? Seriously, just ignore everything she says in the chapter on exotic practices.) and much more of it not especially useful. Her estimation of what play belongs in the realm of the expert player is just silly in cases. If you have any bdsm background to speak of, save your money.