Sarah on BDSM romance

Sarah's guest-blogging at James Buchanan's blog (over-18s only, on James Buchanan's blog) about BDSM romances. In case anyone is unsure what's meant by "BDSM," Wikipedia gives the following explanation: "The compound acronym, BDSM, is derived from the terms bondage and discipline (B&D, B/D, or BD), dominance and submission (D&s, D/s, or Ds), sadism and masochism (S&M, S/M, or SM)."

Sarah's reached the conclusion that "If the author is brilliant with no experience in BDSM, she (let’s assume she for the ease of use, okay?) can still write a brilliant book" but

Where the author is a good author (but not brilliant) or enjoys a little slap with her tickle and thinks that’s kinky enough so doesn’t bother to do much or any research: that’s where things turn sticky, and not in a good way.

She goes on to elaborate on some of these less than good ways and would "love some feedback on these conclusions, especially since I’m going to write a paper about them at some point" so please do head over there if you think you might have some feedback to offer her.


The photo came from Wikimedia Commons and is the work of Tibor Kádek.