* Winner NLA-I 2014 Short Story Award * Imperfect Journeys is a collection of diary and journal entries about BDSM life from the pen of Master Peter, a man who doesn't fully appreciate the nuances of BDSM but who doesn't let that get in the way of him seeing the whole world in terms of domination, submission and play scenes. In two parts, we first see the events of a typical day through the notes in his personal diary. Then, through his journal entries we read his thoughts on his BDSM explorations with his unfortunate slave. Strangely, these explorations never seem to turn out quite as you...

BDSM is commonly seen as simply being about rope bondage, torture, sex, The Story Of O, and leather-clad dominatrices. When it's portrayed in books and media the focus is often on individual and intense experiences with little attention to any relationships the participants may have with each other. Certainly in some cases BDSM may only be a minor thread running through an otherwise ordinary relationship, but for some people BDSM can be a major and necessary part of their lives with their partner. The term BDSM is an acronym which stands for Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission,...

In this second book of the BDSM Relationships series, Peter Masters takes as a starting point the principles and psychology of BDSM which he talked about in book one, and then places them in practical contexts, looking at how real-life BDSM activities and relationships serve to satisfy the wants and needs of practitioners. In particular, he takes the three BDSM pillars described in book one, looks at the effects that different BDSM activities and relationship types have on these, and shows the effects on both the wants and needs met by BDSM, and on the BDSM relationships themselves....

In this third book of the BDSM Relationships series, Peter Masters looks at many of the common pitfalls and obstacles which can get in the way of a satisfying BDSM-based relationship. It's rare that a deficiency in practical BDSM skills, such as flogging technique or ability to tie knots, causes a relationship to fail. Instead they mostly fail due to people problems. These can be misconceptions, assumptions, unreasonable or wrong expectations, poor communication, not appreciating the wants and needs you have yourself and the wants and needs your partner has, not understanding the depth of...

This book brings together in one volume Peter Masters' BDSM Relationship series: Understanding BDSM Relationships, BDSM Relationships - How They Work, and BDSM Relationship - Pitfalls and Obstacles. The first book, Understanding BDSM Relationships, looks at the principles and psychology which underlie BDSM itself and, more importantly, which underlie the relationships between people who practice BDSM. He defines tools which can be used to recognise, understand, analyse, and diagnose what's happening and what's not happening in BDSM relationships. The second book, BDSM Relationships - How They...

Frequently, the easy part of discussing BDSM is where you talk about practical matters of safety, or where you talk about choosing the right implements and equipment, or where you compare different types of rope or knots. But many people also want to talk about aspects of BDSM which aren't so easy to discuss such as how BDSM relationships work - particularly between scenes, about domination and submission as opposed to just topping and bottoming, about what's involved in mastery and slavery, about honour, trust, consent and many other things which aren't nearly so easy to nail down. In this...