Cultivating humility. (Non-Fiction).(SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude)

SlaveCraft

Roadmaps for Consensual Erotic Servitude: Principles, Skills, and Tools

by a grateful slave with Guy A. Baldwin, M.S. Daedalus Publishing

ISBN SBN: 1881943143

Each summer for many years I traveled to a Zen monastery tucked deep into the Big Sur mountains. There I would sit on a small black cushion for endiess hours, legs cramping with pain or sometimes dozing off until a sharp rap from a stick held by the Abbott jolted me awake. More recently, I retied the marital knot with my companion of 18 years under California's new domestic partnership law. Surrender and devotion come in many forms, but neither should be taken lightly. The bounds of commitment are, after all, what defines life's parameters and ultimately its promise.

Pb., $15.95, 184 pp.

In SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude, longtime psychotherapist and leather community leader Guy Baldwin serves as the interlocutor of "a grateful slave" in an attempt to advance our understanding of erotic …