GUEST POST: Jesse C. Scott

Non-Pornographic BDSM Fiction, by Jess C Scott / jessINK Thanks so much for hosting me today, Cami! PLAY is is a collection of non-pornographic BDSM short stories I completed in 2011. Themes include a rape fantasy, bondage and knife play, and erotic asphyxiation. As a person who’s long been fascinated with aspects of the BDSM lifestyle (bondage, in particular), I never really found the pornographic portrayal of the BDSM scene to be titillating or fulfilling. To be honest, I’ve never really found pornography to be satisfactory, because sex at its best is never just about the physical. It’s something mental and spiritual that transcends the ordinary, and BDSM (when done right) greatly “enhances” any kind of sexual activity. It was a bit tricky at first, writing “non-pornographic” BDSM fiction, since more care had to go into the writing (too much explicitness would deem it as “pornographic”). It did require a certain amount of effort to depict scenes that focused on subtlety (and sub-conscious forces), though I thought this fit in with the BDSM lifestyle well. There’s a lot of power play going on when BDSM is concerned --I chose to explore this in a liberal and open-minded manner. Of the five stories / novellas in the BDSM-themed  PLAYanthology, my favorite is the third story in the middle (Rockstar, where Hideki brings on the knife and bondage play to help Daniel come face-to-face with his dEniAl).While I make no guarantees for future work of a similar  theme, the S/M elements in PLAY were more mild  than extreme. With this initial collection, it was important  to me to concentrate on the relationship aspects of the story,  where a deep and unconditional, more serious type of love  was developed (as opposed to the romantic fluff common in  mainstream pop culture -- not that there’s anything wrong with  that per se, but it just wasn’t what I was aiming to achieve  with this set of stories). One of the reasons I like to write is because of  the combination of purpose and passion it offers me. I  enjoy inspiring others to favor social/spiritual values over  shallow/materialistic values. This includes “freeing” others from the  limiting constraints of pornography, which happens when  one understands that the erotic life is not determined by explicitness or lewdness (this was a big motivating factor, to present PLAY in a non-pornographic way). ===== Author Bio: Jess is a professional non-conformist with a fresh,  youthful world view. She is an author of relationship-based  erotic fiction (and other unique projects, including a series  that features “cyberpunk elves”). She’s cool, supportive,  and writes with both intellect and a lot of emotion. She has most recently co-authored Teen Guide to  Sex and Relationships with Matt Posner (Spring 2012).  For more info, please visit http://jessink.com/teenguide.htm Jess can also be found on jessINK, Facebook, and Twitter.