Craving a little painful love? The sting of a hand or paddle upon flesh? In Hurts So Good, Alison Tyler concocts a cornucopia of kink with tantalizing, taboo tales of lovers and partners paying the price with their bodies. For readers who dream about turning on, turning over, and taking their punishment or about exploring the dark fantasies of S/M, this heart-pounding, welt-inducing collection delivers all the pleasure pain can bring.
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"Whether you dream of turning the other cheek and taking your punishment, slap for slap, or feel like exploring the darker sides of your s&m fantasies, then this heart-pounding, welt-inducing, sensually painful collection will give you all the pleasures that pain can bring!"
—JADE Book Reviews
"Alison Tyler knows why pain and pleasure go together so well. She knows why and she's recruited authors to help her explain the details." - Ashley Lister, Erotica Readers & Writer's Association
"Alison Tyler knows how to mix up the tales in her books and always offers a wide variety of different experiences on any one topic, I love her collections and always look forward to the depth and eroticism that many of the stories have that she chooses for her collections." - Roxanne Rhoads, Lucrezia Magazine
In praise of Got a Minute? 60 Second Erotica, "The moments Tyler has collected here are all-embracing and all-inclusive, with heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, and gay fantasies bumping up against each other from one moment to the next, the precise poetic prose on one page followed by quick and dirty dialogue on the next, and rough romp after that." Sarah Estrella, The National Examiner
"Hurts so good—at face value, it seems to be a contradiction. But the art of power exchange—the heart and soul of BDSM—is its own special type of alchemy, creating a dreamy world where pain equals pleasure and bondage means freedom.
Consider the position a submissive willingly puts himself in: bound and helpless, facing all of his dreams and fears as well as his mistress’s lash. Never mind the leather—clothed or naked, he is stripped down to his most basic physical and emotional needs in his quest to relinquish control and expose himself to an extreme range of feelings and sensations.
As time seems to slow, drawing out the moments between beats of his heart, he confronts his warring desires and his world is reduced to what she allows him to experience: the snug embrace of his restraints, the ticklish tease of her fingernails being drawn across his flesh, the hot rush of her breath against the back of his neck. Anticipation is a heady elixir, whetting his erotic appetite even as nervousness swells inside him.
Without warning, the snap of leather against skin offers a loud report, like a bright flash of lightning before the rumbling thunder strike. A split second later, the impact of that expertly placed lash resonates as a sharp spark within him, the heat building as she takes him higher and higher with each additional stroke.
And as he accepts her gift of pain—testing his will and striving toward the bliss of release—he is the furthest thing from weak.
It takes tremendous strength, resolve and trust to put yourself completely in the hands of another person—one whom you know with absolute certainty is going to push your limits, physically and emotionally. But it’s this swirl of sensations and feelings that combine in a perfect storm of kink and makes the seemingly impossible not only occur, but happen in a way that creates a sexy good time for everyone involved. As the editor of Penthouse Variations magazine, I receive letters every day from readers who not only understand these seemingly conflicting worlds but experience their pleasures first-hand.
The sensual stories that Alison Tyler has assembled in this collection delve into the dynamics of relationships filled with such unrestrained passion, revealing a world of beautiful contradictions that will thrill and inspire you.
Some of these tales show how the everyday can be instantly transformed into pulse-quickening moments laced with eroticism. Sommer Marsden’s Panty Lines and Jay Lawrence’s Provocation reflect the experiences of couples that work episodes of power play into their daily lives, momentarily enjoying the thrill of the game and then returning to their usual roles.
Other stories in this anthology, like Morgan Aine’s Party Manners and Xan West’s First Time Since, reveal the emotions at play beneath more intense D/s relationships. These authors tell tales of deeply passionate experiences, and the payoff for these characters is directly commensurate with the depth of their emotional investment. These darker fantasies complement the light, allowing this collection to reveal a full spectrum of experiences within the world of S&M.
Read through these sinfully decadent tales and let their words wash over you. Each story will build upon the next, their erotic episodes fleshing out a complex portrait of passion as they embrace the pleasurable paradox of kink and its many luscious possibilities."
Barbara Pizio
Executive Editor
Penthouse Variations
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
—JADE Book Reviews
"Alison Tyler knows why pain and pleasure go together so well. She knows why and she's recruited authors to help her explain the details." - Ashley Lister, Erotica Readers & Writer's Association
"Alison Tyler knows how to mix up the tales in her books and always offers a wide variety of different experiences on any one topic, I love her collections and always look forward to the depth and eroticism that many of the stories have that she chooses for her collections." - Roxanne Rhoads, Lucrezia Magazine
In praise of Got a Minute? 60 Second Erotica, "The moments Tyler has collected here are all-embracing and all-inclusive, with heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, and gay fantasies bumping up against each other from one moment to the next, the precise poetic prose on one page followed by quick and dirty dialogue on the next, and rough romp after that." Sarah Estrella, The National Examiner
"Hurts so good—at face value, it seems to be a contradiction. But the art of power exchange—the heart and soul of BDSM—is its own special type of alchemy, creating a dreamy world where pain equals pleasure and bondage means freedom.
Consider the position a submissive willingly puts himself in: bound and helpless, facing all of his dreams and fears as well as his mistress’s lash. Never mind the leather—clothed or naked, he is stripped down to his most basic physical and emotional needs in his quest to relinquish control and expose himself to an extreme range of feelings and sensations.
As time seems to slow, drawing out the moments between beats of his heart, he confronts his warring desires and his world is reduced to what she allows him to experience: the snug embrace of his restraints, the ticklish tease of her fingernails being drawn across his flesh, the hot rush of her breath against the back of his neck. Anticipation is a heady elixir, whetting his erotic appetite even as nervousness swells inside him.
Without warning, the snap of leather against skin offers a loud report, like a bright flash of lightning before the rumbling thunder strike. A split second later, the impact of that expertly placed lash resonates as a sharp spark within him, the heat building as she takes him higher and higher with each additional stroke.
And as he accepts her gift of pain—testing his will and striving toward the bliss of release—he is the furthest thing from weak.
It takes tremendous strength, resolve and trust to put yourself completely in the hands of another person—one whom you know with absolute certainty is going to push your limits, physically and emotionally. But it’s this swirl of sensations and feelings that combine in a perfect storm of kink and makes the seemingly impossible not only occur, but happen in a way that creates a sexy good time for everyone involved. As the editor of Penthouse Variations magazine, I receive letters every day from readers who not only understand these seemingly conflicting worlds but experience their pleasures first-hand.
The sensual stories that Alison Tyler has assembled in this collection delve into the dynamics of relationships filled with such unrestrained passion, revealing a world of beautiful contradictions that will thrill and inspire you.
Some of these tales show how the everyday can be instantly transformed into pulse-quickening moments laced with eroticism. Sommer Marsden’s Panty Lines and Jay Lawrence’s Provocation reflect the experiences of couples that work episodes of power play into their daily lives, momentarily enjoying the thrill of the game and then returning to their usual roles.
Other stories in this anthology, like Morgan Aine’s Party Manners and Xan West’s First Time Since, reveal the emotions at play beneath more intense D/s relationships. These authors tell tales of deeply passionate experiences, and the payoff for these characters is directly commensurate with the depth of their emotional investment. These darker fantasies complement the light, allowing this collection to reveal a full spectrum of experiences within the world of S&M.
Read through these sinfully decadent tales and let their words wash over you. Each story will build upon the next, their erotic episodes fleshing out a complex portrait of passion as they embrace the pleasurable paradox of kink and its many luscious possibilities."
Barbara Pizio
Executive Editor
Penthouse Variations
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Intricately secured by ropes, locked in handcuffs or bound simply by a lover's command, the characters of Hurts So Good find themselves in the throes of pleasurable restraint in this new collection by prolific, award-winning editor Alison Tyler. In "My Mainstream Girlfriend," Stephen Elliott melts under the firm hand of a woman who takes what she wants. The narrator in Tyler's own kinky "All in the Wrist" delights in the bratty bottom she takes home from the bar. The nice girl visiting a dungeon in Rachel Kramer Bussel's shivery "Crossed" reminds us "it's not a matter of who comes the fastest but who comes the hardest." Always playful and dangerously explicit, these arresting fantasies will grab you, tie you down and never let you go.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Intricately secured by ropes, locked in handcuffs or bound simply by a lover's command, the characters of Hurts So Good find themselves in the throes of pleasurable restraint in this new collection by prolific, award-winning editor Alison Tyler. In "My Mainstream Girlfriend," Stephen Elliott melts under the firm hand of a woman who takes what she wants. The narrator in Tyler's own kinky "All in the Wrist" delights in the bratty bottom she takes home from the bar. The nice girl visiting a dungeon in Rachel Kramer Bussel's shivery "Crossed" reminds us "it's not a matter of who comes the fastest but who comes the hardest." Always playful and dangerously explicit, these arresting fantasies will grab you, tie you down and never let you go.
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Called a trollop with a laptop by East Bay Express, Alison Tyler is naughty and she knows it.
Over the past 20 years, Ms. Tyler has written more than 25 explicit novels, including Learning to Love It, Strictly Confidential, Sweet Thing, Sticky Fingers, and Something About Workmen (all published by Black Lace), as well as Rumors, Tiffany Twisted, and Melt With You (Cheek). Her novels and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish. Her stories have appeared in more than 100 anthologies.
When not writing saucy short stories, Ms. Tyler edits erotic anthologies. She's recently completed her 50th collection, Alison's Wonderland (Harlequin, 2010). Her best-selling titles include Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (Plume), Naked Erotica (Pretty Things Press), and Best Bondage Erotica (Cleis Press).
Ms. Tyler is loyal to coffee (black), lipstick (red), and tequila (straight). She has tattoos, but no piercings; a wicked tongue, but a quick smile; and bittersweet memories, but no regrets. She believes it won't rain if she doesn't bring an umbrella, prefers hot and dry to cold and wet, and loves to spout her favorite motto: You can sleep when you're dead. She chooses Led Zeppelin over the Beatles, the Cure over NIN, and the Stones over everyone. Yet although she appreciates good rock, she has a pitiful weakness for 80s hair bands.
In all things important, she remains faithful to her partner of 15 years, but she still can't choose just one perfume.
Over the past 20 years, Ms. Tyler has written more than 25 explicit novels, including Learning to Love It, Strictly Confidential, Sweet Thing, Sticky Fingers, and Something About Workmen (all published by Black Lace), as well as Rumors, Tiffany Twisted, and Melt With You (Cheek). Her novels and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish. Her stories have appeared in more than 100 anthologies.
When not writing saucy short stories, Ms. Tyler edits erotic anthologies. She's recently completed her 50th collection, Alison's Wonderland (Harlequin, 2010). Her best-selling titles include Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (Plume), Naked Erotica (Pretty Things Press), and Best Bondage Erotica (Cleis Press).
Ms. Tyler is loyal to coffee (black), lipstick (red), and tequila (straight). She has tattoos, but no piercings; a wicked tongue, but a quick smile; and bittersweet memories, but no regrets. She believes it won't rain if she doesn't bring an umbrella, prefers hot and dry to cold and wet, and loves to spout her favorite motto: You can sleep when you're dead. She chooses Led Zeppelin over the Beatles, the Cure over NIN, and the Stones over everyone. Yet although she appreciates good rock, she has a pitiful weakness for 80s hair bands.
In all things important, she remains faithful to her partner of 15 years, but she still can't choose just one perfume.
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You don't have to own leather pants to like this book,
By Aurora Hunter "highborn.hunter" (West Hickory, PA) - See all my reviews
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I enjoyed the 21 stories in Hurts So Good. I got the book as an after-Christmas present to myself. The book starts off with The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Nikki Magennis. I have enjoyed her work in other compilations and she doesn't disappoint here either. Next is Sting, by Jessica Lennox, which I loved because I have always found tattoo shops to be very sexy places. (It's the smell) Also, the idea of a sensual encounter turning into a sexual encounter is very exciting. Testing the Water by Teresa Noelle Roberts was a fun story about two friends discovering they had more in common than they thought. I really liked this story because it showed bondage and domination in the context of a typical relationship, contrary to the black leather clad image that TV and movies show of this subculture. She didn't lick his boots or sleep on the floor after the sex was over; they were equals again once the blindfold came off and the paddle was put away. I Promise To Do My Best by Teresa Joseph made me laugh out loud. The idea of adult women dressing up in Girl Scout uniforms and paddling each other is not a turn-on at all for me, but the story was well-written and entertaining. One of my favorites was First Time Since by Xan West. This story contained some of the more graphic dominate/submissive behavior in the book (human urinal), but what it was really about to me was how you slowly gather the pieces and rebuild yourself after a relationship ends. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good spanking, and anyone who is titillated by pushing pain and pleasure to the edge.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Ouch!,
This review is from: Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica (Paperback)
Loved, loved, loved this one! It's got some really good bdsm/spanking/s/m, et al stories. It is totally unrestrained, so be warned. I was looking for something quick and good and was so glad I ran across this one. Allison Tyler is one of the best, that's for sure, and this little gem proves it. Also liked: Sweet Persuasion.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Something Unexpected,
By L. Frijole "garbonzo" (Portland, Or) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica (Paperback)
I must admit that I was a bit nervous when I picked up Alison Tyler's collection of BDSM stories, Hurts So Good. BDSM isn't really my thing, and I was not looking forward to sifting through 200 pages of stories to find something I would enjoy.But I trust Alison Tyler. So I dove in. And I am glad I did. I found that there was a lot to enjoy in this book. The stories are well-written, and the action is steamy. Not every story is going to appeal to everyone (some are more intense than others), but anyone can find something arousing and appealing about stepping in to this world of complex power dynamics. Tyler's love of spanking comes through in this book. I would have liked to see a bit more variety than the number of spanking stories included. However, since spanking is a common fantasy for many people, it seems like a logical place to start. And, who knows, maybe you will find something new you never knew aroused you! Definitely worth a look-see! Take a risk and see what you discover!
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