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A review by mxsallybend
Bradley Jones's Chastity by Giles English
5.0
One of the things you have to understand about Giles English is that while he writes very sexy stories about chastity and female domination, he also writes very, very smart stories about the same. There’s thought behind his stories, discussions about what feeds a fetish or defines a desire, and nowhere is that more prevalent than in Bradley Jones’s Chastity.
On the surface, this is a fun (sometimes cruelly so) tale of a young man in long-term inescapable chastity, chasing the high of pleasuring random women with his tongue and various strap-ons while longing to love ‘normally’ again with the impending release of his own pleasure. You see, in this alternate near-future Britain, the government installs free chastity devices that are inescapable, come with a contract (5 years, 10 years, or permanent), and block all sensory pleasure, including anal. It’s a commitment for those who choose to become chaste, and it’s given rise to an entire subculture of women who prefer their lovers that way.
There’s a lot of emotion to the story – including a lot of pain – and a lot of sex. The pain comes from one lover who has a fetish for BDSM, a sadist who loves inflicting physical pain almost as much as she does emotional. Those scenes may be hard to take for some readers, coming with blood and riding the line of dubious consent, but there is a purpose to them.
And that purpose leads me back to the intellectual aspects of the story. Giles asks a lot of questions about where our fantasies and fetishes come from, how and why we express them, and what they ultimately mean. He also explores the question of whether submission can be a selfless act, a sacrifice in belief of dominant women, or a selfish one, only venerating them because the submission is enjoyable. It’s not just a story about what it means for men, though – he also confronts what makes a woman a dominant or a sadist, what they get out of male submission and chastity, and how they view the ideal relationship.
Granted, I don’t necessarily agree with some of the conclusions drawn, but that’s fine because no two people embrace their fetish the same way or for the same reasons. Bradley Jones’s Chastity is a fascinating story in that respect, a passionate one in terms of the sex, and an emotional one with the rollercoaster journey he embarks upon to find love, romance, or just a relationship. Very well thought-out and presented.
https://sallybend.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/book-review-bradley-joness-chastity-by-giles-english-erotica-chastity/
On the surface, this is a fun (sometimes cruelly so) tale of a young man in long-term inescapable chastity, chasing the high of pleasuring random women with his tongue and various strap-ons while longing to love ‘normally’ again with the impending release of his own pleasure. You see, in this alternate near-future Britain, the government installs free chastity devices that are inescapable, come with a contract (5 years, 10 years, or permanent), and block all sensory pleasure, including anal. It’s a commitment for those who choose to become chaste, and it’s given rise to an entire subculture of women who prefer their lovers that way.
There’s a lot of emotion to the story – including a lot of pain – and a lot of sex. The pain comes from one lover who has a fetish for BDSM, a sadist who loves inflicting physical pain almost as much as she does emotional. Those scenes may be hard to take for some readers, coming with blood and riding the line of dubious consent, but there is a purpose to them.
And that purpose leads me back to the intellectual aspects of the story. Giles asks a lot of questions about where our fantasies and fetishes come from, how and why we express them, and what they ultimately mean. He also explores the question of whether submission can be a selfless act, a sacrifice in belief of dominant women, or a selfish one, only venerating them because the submission is enjoyable. It’s not just a story about what it means for men, though – he also confronts what makes a woman a dominant or a sadist, what they get out of male submission and chastity, and how they view the ideal relationship.
Granted, I don’t necessarily agree with some of the conclusions drawn, but that’s fine because no two people embrace their fetish the same way or for the same reasons. Bradley Jones’s Chastity is a fascinating story in that respect, a passionate one in terms of the sex, and an emotional one with the rollercoaster journey he embarks upon to find love, romance, or just a relationship. Very well thought-out and presented.
https://sallybend.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/book-review-bradley-joness-chastity-by-giles-english-erotica-chastity/