Beauty & Submission [Paperback]

Maria Isabel Pita (Author)

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About the Author

Maria Isabel Pita is the author of three erotic BDSM novels – Thorsday Night, Eternal Bondage, To Her Master Born (re-printed as an exclusive hard-cover edition by the Doubleday Venus Book Club) and four erotic romances – Dreams of Anubis, Pleasures Unknown, Recipe For Romance and The Fabric of Love. She is also the author of the non-fiction book, The Story of M – A Memoir, the vividly detailed account of her first year of training as a slave to her Master and soul mate continued in Beauty & Submission. Maria lives with her beloved Master, Stinger, and their dog, Merlin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Magic Carpet Books (November 9, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0975533118
• ISBN-13: 978-0975533116
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,301,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maria Isabel Pita was born in Havana, Cuba. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was four months old and she grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. Reading, writing and history have been her abiding passions ever since she can remember. In college she majored in World History and minored in English Literature and Cultural Anthropology. Since then she has traveled extensively and authored a series of critically acclaimed paranormal and contemporary romances. "Guilty Pleasures" is her best-selling collection of romantic stories set all through history. Maria is also the author of the historical epic "Truth is the Soul of the Sun-A Biographical Novel of Hatshepsut-Maatkare" and of "A Concise Guide to Ancient Egypt's Magic and Religion."

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not so hidden fantasies explored and discovered ..., November 30, 2004

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beauty & Submission (Paperback)

Written by one of America's hottest contemporary erotica writers the author takes us on a real life tour of her private world of sex slaves, swinging and BDSM. In contrast to most readers pre conceived notions where the `sadism' part of BDSM lifestyle is usually a description of a master beating the living daylights out of his slave, Maria Isabel Pita describes her relationship with her master as a pretty well wholesome practice of living out her fantasies ......


Yes there are rules and considerations to a good relationship and the results can only be understated as very very satisfying. Being a master erotica writer the author manages to describe her life in a manner that takes the reader on a delicious and vicarious trip into a world that generally are only deep and hidden fantasies of most women ....


This real life exploration of a sex slave/master relationship make these fantasies not only seem more plausible but also delicious .....

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Submission, December 19, 2004

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Frances LaGatta (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beauty & Submission (Paperback)

What struck me the most all throughout the reading of "Beauty and submission" is the power and bravery behind Maria Pita's prose. She is undoubtedly a wise old soul. Yet, in the same instance, her no-holds-barred honesty about the lifestyle and personal odyssey with her beloved Dom has a youthful innocence that refreshes and renews like rain in the springtime. Love is new, and forever renewed, by each other. Life obstacles faced by most vanilla lovers face are present along with the countless obstacles any alternative lifestyle will bring. Every such mountain is a challenge scaled with intelligent and triumphant results. Missa's enormous heart, and huge capacity to love and submit to her man in the purest sense, will stay with me (and I'm sure all her readers) long after this book is closed. This real life romance makes fictional renditions pale in comparison.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where was the editor?, May 18, 2006

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His bird (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beauty & Submission (Paperback)

Technically this was an exercise in tautology, and albeit the author admits that they are events not presented chronologically/linerally, the whole thing came off as a repetitive scrapbook of free associative ramblings. Cultural allusions were off and revealed just a shallow dip into areas of interest; just deep enough to create a character for a sexual fantasy.
Every D/s relationship defines it's own perimeters, but this is the most silly top from the bottom (with a side of kink) i've ever read. Any girl who needs to prover her worth and devotion by degrading any and all around her isn't creating a deeper bond of submission, but pathetically wallowing in a misplaced sense of value (with a heaping side of self-image issues).