Female Submission: The Journal of Madelaine [Hardcover]

Claudia Varrin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2006

Female Submission: The Journeys of Madelaine is the true story of Claudia Varrin's time spent in London as a sexual female submissive to a well-known British master. Unlike Erotic Surrender, the first book of this two-book set, which was written to empower the female submissive and make her feel pride in her sexual preferences, this book relates her actual day-to-day experiences while living with the master. Using the journals that Madelaine wrote in every day so as not to forget her experiences and emotions she felt as a sexual submissive, Female Submission provides a through the glass darkly look at real-time female submission, written for women by a woman.

The journals from which this book is written are very detailed and vivid, and many of Madelaine's experiences were extremely wild, edgy, and on the most advanced level of play. Private fantasy enactments, exciting public scenes in nightclubs, and frolics both fun and fearful at exclusive dungeon parties spice up the every day activities Madelaine was assigned to do as the master's slave. As Madelaine explored her submissive nature more deeply, she was able to access the most hidden desires in her own mind and enter into the downward spiral necessary to bare her soul and debase herself for her master without degrading herself or losing her self-esteem. As the book progresses, the scenes get wilder and emotions become deeper, making Madelaine into a submissive who would do anything for her cruel, handsome master and strive to make his base, and sometimes savage, desires her own.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Varrin vividly communicates the delight that can be found in the delicious depravity of sensual submission." -- Skin Two Magazine

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A modern-day Story of O

Under the tutelage of an experienced British master, Claudia Varrin--as the slave "Madelaine"--relinquished her whip to explore the deepest heart of surrender. What she found was a level of sexual exhilaration beyond anything she'd even imagined.

Here is her moment-to-moment journal as she enters the downward spiral necessary to bare her soul and debase herself for her master. Madelaine's experiences were extremely wild, edgy, and on the most advanced level of play: private fantasy enactments, public scenes in nightclubs, frolics both fun and fearsome at exclusive dungeon parties--almost nothing was off-limits. Madelaine found her sexual boundaries pushed further and further as she accessed desires unknown even to herself. Exploring her submissive nature and her emotions more deeply, she was changed into one who would do anything for her cruel, handsome master, ultimately striving to make his base and often savage desires her own.

Read as a vicarious pleasure, a primer of new fantasies, or as a companion to Varrin's Erotic Surrender, this sexy volume is a must for everyone who is captivated by the outer limits of human sexuality and pleasure.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (November 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806527072
• ISBN-13: 978-0806527079
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,417,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but not a suggested first read, July 29, 2010

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hundistliebe - See all my reviews

This review is from: Female Submission: The Journal of Madelaine (Hardcover)

I would like to praise this book but I cannot. I found it rigid and only consumable by my mind and eyes in short durations. I have read over a dozen non-fiction books on Dominance/submission (and the variations) in my own journey as a submissive female and I must say that I found this book to exist clumsily somewhere between reading like erotic fiction and something that wants to join the ranks of an expository on a D/s relationship and the psychological dynamics therein. I would like to be able to honor Claudia Varrin's years in the bdsm scene with a soaring review but I cannot. Not considering myself an expert on bdsm by any means, I have no clue what Varrin's intent was with this book; if there was one, outside of a poorly edited personal account that is hard to relate to and almost unrealistic. It could have been a beautiful story but Claudia seems to focus more on describing herself with soaring accolades than trying to help the reader respect her Dominant as she did. I found it almost impossible to appreciate the Dominant or find any dignity in the way she described him. Varrin relates his ailments and fragility more often than she discusses the method behind his sometimes brutal relationship with her. I would go so far as to call some portions of it chaotic and out of control; nearly unsettling. It is not the scenes I found unnerving but the whole relationship and the fact Madelaine's account of it is intended to be a reflection of a D/s 'relationship'. This is more of a series of accounts between a Top and Bottoming top as opposed to a loving Dominant and giving submissive. As has been suggested in reviews on other sites I would not recommend this book to a new submissive eager to explore the scene and her place within it and with a Dominant.