"No Pain, No Gain" is a collection of short stories united around their narrator's search for satisfaction through sexual submission. The pseudonymous author, a film-industry insider, has spent his own life questing after strong and beautiful women who will dominate him - sometimes for money, but mostly for love. Inspired by the results of his search, "No Pain, No Gain" turns the usual male memoir of sexual conquests upside-down and inside-out.