Product Description

BDSM is shorthand for two distinct lifestyles that can but do not always come together. B&D stands for Bondage & Domination. S&M stands for Sadism and Masochism. One of the reasons many women are afraid to explore their sexual submissiveness is precisely the BDSM acronym; they are worried one inevitably leads to the other, which is not actually the case. Every BDSM relationship is as unique as the persons involved in it. What dominant and submissive individuals do together is determined by both of them. The idea that becoming a Sex Slave means being forced to live out the full and often extremely painful and offensive gamut of Sadomasochistic activities is completely untrue; it is a negative stereotype and in no way an accurate portrayal of the sane consensual BDSM lifestyle many loving couples have been living for years.

In Bound to Love, Maria Isabel Pita has gathered together nine erotic love stories written by some of today’s hottest writers of erotica. In each story the darker side of sexuality is explored through realistic, well-developed characters deeply in love with each other and otherwise leading normal lives together. The men and women in Bound To Love are involved in serious, long-term relationships in which their deeper feelings for each other are inseparable from their erotic interaction. The stories in Bound to Love are some of the best in their genre precisely because they transcend it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222791 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

A Great Anthology
There are many chat up lines doomed to failure:

My buddy says you're easy.
I write erotica: wanna help me research?
I've never dated someone who's really fat.
This is the first time I've ever approached an ugly girl.

But, perhaps one of the hardest things to broach at the beginning of a relationship is an interest in BDSM. One could admire the honesty of someone whose opening gambit is: "Hi gorgeous. Wanna wear nipple clamps?" But the chances of that line ever meeting success are, sadly, negligible.

Yet even in the hardcore hardboiled world of BDSM aficionados, romance does flourish. And, although the odds are set against them, many couples who enjoy a consensual kinky twist to their adult fun do meet and form loving relationships.

Bound to Love is a collection of romantic BDSM erotic stories that shows romance and rope burns are not always elements from exclusive domains. It is possible to be in a caring and compassionate relationship and still bind, brand and bugger your beloved.

Maria Isabel Pita is an accomplished author with many titles to her credit. Aside from Recipe for Romance (the erotic cookbook) and The Story of M (a memoir) she has seems happiest writing tales of love, blending them easily with the fiery passion that lends realism to the traditional tale of romance.

With Bound to Love she has collected stories from some of the genre's most knowledgeable storytellers of BDSM relationships. Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Brooke Stern, Jonathan Marchant and NT Morley are among the many established names who swell this collection into something above and beyond the ordinary. Each author tackles the subject matter with their own distinctive style, bringing fresh insight into the balance of relationships where love and lashes are gladly given and gratefully received.

For those outside the world of BDSM it is hard to understand the fine balance between devotion and discipline. It's true that most of us have sung along to the lyrics of "Love Hurts" but not many people would argue that Roy Orbison was singing about freshly spanked buttocks. Even those within the world of BDSM are not immune to moments of doubt and puzzlement as they try to rationalise the confusing equation where happiness can come from the swish of a riding crop.

Rather than being a collection of McSpanking stories each writer in this anthology has worked hard to create three dimensional characters who are driven by desires that break the regular societal taboos. The compassion, depth and intelligence are blended with credibility, insight and (of course) eroticism.

Bound to Love is an articulate and arousing collection of stories. The anthology deals with the many dichotomies that are borne in a relationship where flowers and flagellation take equal place as tokens of affection. If you like your BDSM intelligent, erotic and romantic, you're bound to love Bound to Love.

Ashley Lister

Finally a readable BDSM book ...... for all of us
If you are the kind of reader that looks for BDSM books where a young girl invariably gets trussed, clamped and then has the living daylights beat out of her. this is NOT the book for you... but .... if you enjoy contemporary erotica of amuch gentler tome where the bondage is in many cases more 'perceived' or mental, then this IS the book for you.


Edited by Maria Isabel Pita, one of my favorite erotica authors this book contains nine short stories, eight of which are by new authors whose writings certainly stand well above the crowd.


In 'Summerhouse' by author Johnathan Marchant, one of my two favorite stories, our heroine, a young, agressive, take no prisoners, city lawyer is called back to her summer house in the woods to check for storm damages to her roof. Being too busy for any kind of real social life she explores her deepest hidden erotic fantasies as she prepares to meet the builder whom she hasn't seen for over a year. It's in these fabulously erotic dreams and hidden desires that the author shows us that the bondage doesn't necessary have to be ONLY physical but that we are all one way or another trussed by our erotic secrets.



The other story, 'Necessary To Her Good' by author Marilyn Jay Lewis, after a furtive three page start that I found strange, the author hits her stride when Elisa recounts her story of total submission to her deepest darkest dreams at the hands and .. well you know what I mean .. of Armand. This story is so hot it's worth the price of the book alone ...


It's most certainly great books like this that remind us that the greatest erotice is in the mind of the reader ...

more hardcore BDSM than I normally read!
SUMMERHOUSE by Jonathan Marchant
A phone call from architect David Riggs Mason regarding damage done to her weekend home during a recent storm is the catalyst which will change attorney Joan Roth's life. They first met two years earlier, but he'd been married at that time. Now divorced, he's ready to show Joan that his mastery is exactly what she needs.

STAYING PRESENT by Ariel Graham
Brent and Lily's marriage is based on love, trust, and discipline. They have a contract which is renewable every six months in which she's agreed to allow him to punish her as he sees fit whenever she's disobedient or anger gets the better of her. Brent's forceful yet loving dominance helps soothe her enough to calm down and allows her to focus on the present.

WHAT IT MEANS by Brooke Stern
David and Ansel are a relatively new couple about to embark on their first foray into discipline. Spanking, to be specific. Both admit to an interest in it, but they worry about what it means. Are they perverted for desiring the extra stimulation?

NECESSARY TO HER GOOD by Marilyn Jaye Lewis
A young woman recounts her journey through life craving punishment. She learned as a child that spankings spark a state of arousal and lust. Over time punishment has become a necessity. Can love go hand in hand with the sort of humiliation which she needs?

COMFY by William Gaius
Tim's search for a place close to campus leads him to Rose Ann's door where he agrees to rent a basement apartment. The rent's steep and it's far from comfy but getting to know Rose and pleasing her soon becomes a focal point in Tim's life. Can he convince her that the gap in their ages has no bearing on his feelings?

PONY PENNING DAYS by L.A. Mistral
Seeing her childhood friend, Geraldine causes a woman to reminisce about when she discovered her love for her best friend she'd called Gussy. They rode horses together and she'd often fantasize about Gussy using the crop on her. When it finally happened she was torn between pleasure and fear that it arouses her so much.

JANICE AND KYLE by Reena Anne Hovermale
Janice is interviewing for a new job which she desperately wants. Kyle, her husband and Master, supports her and does everything in his power to encourage her including helping to dress her. Their marriage is constantly evolving and they enjoy trying new things but if she's ever uncomfortable with anything they try she only has to say so.

A NIGHT WITHOUT A MOON by N.T. Morley
Before they marry, Autumn's fiancé fulfills one of her more intense fantasies - a gang bang. His love for her is apparent in the number of details he painstakingly ensures are taken care of and the manner in which he never let's her out of his sight.

NATURAL BONDAGE by Maria Isabel Pita
A submissive compares her love of bondage and discipline with her Master to the give and take present in the nature that surrounds her. When she was living in the city sex was a driving force in her life. Living in the "middle-of-nowhere" she has a sense of peace with her needs and desires.


BOUND TO LOVE covers many aspects of the lifestyle commonly known as BDSM. Maria Isabel Pita has gathered vastly different stories with varying degrees of bondage and discipline which sometimes teeter on the edge of perverse. In every case there is a semblance of love and devotion between the couples involved and all scenes are consensual. There's no shortage of emotional turmoil will make readers stop and think about the stories that they're reading and their true feelings on each one.

Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)