The Sharp Edge of Love: Extreme Sex! Mythic Romance! Primal Intensity! [Paperback]

Galen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2000

The Sharp Edge of Love tears the cover off our culture's normally masked sexual identity and exposes the raw volcanic core within. This scintillating work tells the true stories of the erotic desires and fantasies of sexually submissive women, questing for their truth.

The Sharp Edge of Love is intelligent and provocative with prose as sharp as the thorns on a rose. You'll explore the full range of human passions from extreme sex, mythic love and primal intensity. It is also a good guide to the ins and outs, the do's and don't's of online relationships, no matter the sexual preference.

"The truth of human sexuality is being exuberantly exposed on the Internet. Centuries of repressed sexual energies, the urge to get kinky, are about to emerge in the new millennium, without the bleak guilt and shame imposed by paranoid and hypocritical moralists. Sexuality has become the free-wheeling frontier of human personality. Think of it as Y2Kink!

The Sharp Edge of Love will serve as your field guide to staking your claim in this new frontier of honest sexual expression.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"... like eavesdropping on a private conversation... these intimate confessions made me blush and turned me on." -- Betty Dodson, Ph.D, Author of Sex for One

"...I became literally obsessed, unable to keep my hands off the book- or myself!" -- Mindcaviar.com, Cassandra Snow

"...a taboo-breakers stroke dream...like A Man and His Maid all over again, only without the British Victoriana." -- Susie Bright, Playboy columist; editor-Best American Erotica

"I found the accurate portrayal of the D/s world, the blur of reality and fantasy, most compelling ." -- Deborah Hyde, Pursed Lips, Novelist, journalist and editor

"This book is a catharsis and a documentary - a must-read for anyone interested in Dominance and submission." -- Erotic Readers Association

"To be unaffected by The Sharp Edge of Love is not to be human... an enlightening experience!" -- Custom Erotica Source, Sage Vivant

"full-on "hot stuff" cover to cover...thought provoking, moisture making, and fun." -- D/s World

If you crave a sexy, true-life account of a Dominant man and his loves, you'll find plenty of satisfaction..." -- JZ Sharpe, ENE

About the Author

Galen is an ardent advocate for sexual freedom, honesty and healing, through his writings, appearances on talk shows, and speaking engagements. He is, as well, a het-Dominant and Mentor active in the BDSM scene, a member of the NLAI, an entrepreneur, marketing relations consultant, multimedia producer, inventor, and proud father.

"Getting honest about our kinkiest desires, is a very hot topic for millions of people. Via the anonymity and safety of the Internet, women in particular are beginning to explore the truth of their sexuality. People in droves are risking the judgement, shame and recriminations of a hypocritical culture, to express their true sexual identity. My goal for the book is that it serve as a gateway, for those who need a nudge to cross through to the honest expression of their sexuality. I want people to know that there is nobility in seeking their truth, sexual and otherwise, and that they are not alone. It's time to raise sexuality to its rightful place as an integral part of human personality, along with emotion, creativity, intellect and spirit."

Galen

Product Details

• Paperback: 573 pages
• Publisher: Galens Realm (July 1, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0970334907
• ISBN-13: 978-0970334909
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,757,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing Look at D/s, December 8, 2000

By 

Todd Hawley (San Francisco CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Sharp Edge of Love: Extreme Sex! Mythic Romance! Primal Intensity! (Paperback)

This book is based on a series of email correspondence the author had with a handful of submissive women who answered ads that he placed on various Internet bdsm personals sites. The correspondence takes on many forms of emotions including love, respect, anger, heartbreak, passion, eroticism, and shows the author to be a man who takes Dominance/submission (D/s) play very seriously.

There are a number of D/s stories in the book, written both by the author and the women he corresponds with, parts of which are highly erotic. As a male Dominant, I even picked up a few ideas in his and the women's stories that I might use in my SM play sometime. *s* The stories do get extreme at times, and while the "extreme" parts may not be things I would be specifically interested in, they are still interesting and fascinating.

An interesting look at D/s relationships, especially when done over a long period of time and distance using mostly email as the communication tool between the two relationship participants.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Letters; Not Novellas, December 23, 2000

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"lvlup_queen" (Somewhere between Fantasy & Reality) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sharp Edge of Love: Extreme Sex! Mythic Romance! Primal Intensity! (Paperback)

If you are looking for a collection of short stories on theerotic world of domination and submission, like me, you will begravely disappointed. This book, while having some redeemingqualities for those who like to read other people's mail, is sadlylacking in everything that defines a book - plot, characterdevelopment, descriptions, etc. What it is is a collection of lettersand e-mails between doms and subs. There are few descriptions ofactual S/M encounters. If there was a way to give a negative ratingthis book would rate one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Sharp Edge of Love, May 25, 2002

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alainn (West Linn, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sharp Edge of Love: Extreme Sex! Mythic Romance! Primal Intensity! (Paperback)

I found this book to be extremely educational. While reading the book (formatted in an 'exchange of e-mail' style) I learned more about what to do and more importantly what NOT to do when entering this fascinating and exciting world. The greatest thing about this book, however, is the clear message about not settling. The clear message that you are deserving and entitled to fulfill YOUR needs and that it's okay to wait for that special Master (or sub)!