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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Shopping Park Slave Coming Soon!

That's right, another story on the way!

Another story is coming, currently entitled "Shopping Park Slave." The idea is, when wealthy mistresses go shopping, they bring their female slaves along and leave them chained to devices in an adults-only park where the slavegirls can entertain Masters and be entertained by them, while the Mistresses shop and have lunch or whatever.

I had to work the AIs hard to get this artwork. I'll write up the fun later.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Face When...

 
The face when you go out shopping for a slavegirl and the item finds you...

I made a hard run at finding the origins of this image and had no luck, because it is all over the Internet and has about lebenty-million different origins listed. The image shows up frequently as a Dutch nude, so there's a pretty good probability that the model is Dutch, but no certainty. Also might be named Alina or See Zeeder, though I did some searches for Dutch nudes with those names and came up with lots of responses on "Alina" but none that looked like this model. If anybody has lead on the origins, drop a line in the comments. In any event, what a look that model has! Totally smitten! Either she's a topnotch model or she REALLY likes the photographer.

Leonardo AI Presents Your Mom, Naked and Dancing

 

It started this way. An avatar I constructed for the cover of "The Billionaire and the Dancing Girl." Now that Leonardo AI was capable of making decent motion videos, I wanted to see if it could bring our dancing slavegirl to life. And boy, did it!

I was hoping for a beautiful blond with a nice smile and jiggly flesh unudulating hypnotically. Instead I got your mother dancing naked and leering at me as she did the "How I Met Your Father" dance. I could almost see the grubby bills sliding into her G-string. Plus she is wearing a whole lot more clothing than you might have guessed based on her backside. I think Leonardo AI made those clothes up just to annoy me, and also, everything else. Anyway, sorry about your mother.

I gave the same avatar another shot, hoping to improve things. I should have known better. (BTW, I used pretty much the same prompt on all three images her: "Curvy dancer in silks happily sways, hips undulating, arms swirling, veil flowing, a joyful belly dance unfolds."

Leonardo AI presents your mom as the lead in The Exorcist! Only worse. In The Exorcist the possessed girl rotates her head 180 degrees. In this video, it looks kinda like she rotates her head 180 degrees and then rotates her body 180 degrees to match it. Unsettling! 

But... I had to try again. Third time does it! Or... does it?

It does NOT does it! It got worse... or better, depending on your tastes. Apparently now Leonardo AI is saying, "Your Mom is SO FAT..." How juvenile. Can we just get some honest porn here?

Sunday, April 27, 2025

She Shouldn't Have Made That Left Turn At Albuquerque!

The look that says, "What do you mean I'm in the WRONG SEX DUNGEON?"
 
Kayla Paige in kink.com shoot 4604, "Derrick Pierce and Kayla Paige."

Friday, April 25, 2025

Going Down

You had to take the stairs to get to the basement to use the elevator, but it was worth it: this particular elevator really knew how to go down.

Audrey Holiday and John Strong in kink.com shoot 38897, "The Grinder."

Thursday, April 24, 2025

The Right Wishes CAN Come True!

When Master pulled her legs wide apart, she of course did the customary thing and made a wish, and it came true, Master put his cock right where she had wished he would. Brilliant Mastery!

This is from Kink.com shoot 39454, "Dominating My Girlfriends' Mom's Big Fake Tits" (which would definitely be a candidate for the titlegore subreddit if it were on Reddit) featuring Alyssa Lynn and Michael Vegas.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Relationship Issues

Though she was tied to the post again, she was cheered by the thought that she and Master were getting closer to one another. Yesterday he had done this with a ten-foot pole!

Carissa Montgomery and the Pope in kink.com shoot 35037.

Monday, April 21, 2025

Leonardo AI Motion 2.0 Blows Away Kling AI Motion Videos

This is how it started, a Second Live avatar tarted up in some slave chains and sporting a ballgag. Very nice, I used it for my book cover. But cartoonish, not what it could be. So I ran it through Leonardo AI to get a more lifelike image and damn did I win! 


Holy crap, Batman! Leonardo AI, without even being asked to in the prompt, removed her ballgag and all her brass bikini accessories and gave her a smoking hot redhead face! I would have been fine with the brass bikini and the ballgag, but whatevs! And this is the image I decided to try out Leonardo AIs new motion 2 image motion generation system on. My prompt was "A woman rises to her feet and dances happily."


Just incredible, a far cry from the Lovecraftian horrors Leonardo AI used to generate when you innocently asked it to convert still images to videos. I've gotten a lot of pleasure from mocking Leonardo AI's feeble excuse for videos, but this video changes EVERYTHING! It doesn't have any problems with morphing. There's some blurring as her hands move, but not a lot of it. But most of all, the nudity remains intact! She's got breasts and a pussy and there's noting covering them. Just a gauzy cover for her butt! And her face is so beautifully conveyed, wonderful smile throughout. What's more, this is the first and only video I generated. A whole new world beckons! But then there's the acid test... is Leonardo AI motion video as good as Kling AI motion videos? Let's find out!


This is a promo video created by Kling AI. I really like it. The motions are realistic, beautiful and not blobular at all. The brests have skimpy covering but that's more than made up for by the wonderful Gainax bouncing the breasts do as she moves. And such a great smile! No wonder I liked this. So I tried recreating a very similiar figure dancing with Leonardo AI.


I used pretty much the same figure for my Leonardo AI motion video, but with a gray background, asking for a dancing woman in a beautiful springtime park in the prompt. The text prompt didn't really work, it put the figure on a stage with a floral decor. But will you LOOK at that skimpy excuse for a bra being strained by those huge breasts doing such very natural looking gainax bouncing! And the hands, so beautifully done. Better than Kling? I think so!

I'll close with this more-or-less random screenshot from the Leonardo AI video above. Wonderful pose, wonderful expression, and look how beautifully and accurately the hands and the one foot are portrayed. Curling so naturally! Kling AI, I kinda hate to say it, but Leonardo AI has made you their bitch.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Interference

"No, no, there's no interference on the line, that's just my sub screaming in ecstasy. Or pain. You never know."

Alina West and Seth Gamble in kink.com shoot 38398, "The Loan Shark's Daughter."

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Get Prison Bitch 3 for Just $2.25 in Celebration of April 20


 #BDSM #Erotica Celebrating April 20 (420) by putting my latest novel "Prison Bitch 3" at half price. Just click on the link, enter coupon code TC97R and pay just $2.25 to get the explosive climax to my Prison Bitch trilogy! Just click on the pic to be sent to Smashwords!

Friday, April 18, 2025

Swinging Sex Indeed!

 
Finally, Cirque de Soleil gives the people what they want, actual lesbian bondage sex in midair!

From "Isis Love and Satine Phoenix" which is kink.com shoot 4221.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Prison Bitch 3 Cover Censored By Direct2Digital

 I got a note this morning from Direct2Digital stating that my cover art was too pornographic. As is usual with censorship, it was very vague about what was offensive on my cover. For reference, this is the cover they censored:


As you'll note, all naughty bits are covered by red smoke. The complaint said no nudity is allowed on the covers, and listed various body parts that are not allowed: nipples, butts, butt cracks, glory trails and nudity. It's kept vague to make artists censor their work more heavily. If you aren't quite sure what's allowed by the guidelines, you tend to censor yourself more heavily, making censors happier. Censors are a diseased and twisted part of the human race that can only get off sexually by not allowing others to see sexy images or read sexy things.

Of course there is an obvious butt crack on the cover, belonging to the woman lying on the floor. I thought it would be OK since the woman is clearly wearing a thong. The waist bands are very clear and obvious. And the darkness at the top of her butt crack looks exactly like what the top of a thong generally looks like when seen from the rear. But clearly, this is not how the censor "saw" it. So I made some changes on my cover to cover all possible contingencies, and that's how we wind up with the new cover as seen below:

The new "improved" cover for Prison Bitch 3. All naughty bits covered with smoke. The woman hanging from the ceiling is just a bunch of body parts, and the image of the woman in the foreground isn't much better. It is, in my opinions, worse in every respect than the cover I went with. I mean, I could write some bullshit about the cover being more dramatic because it puts more focus on the women's faces, but that would be bullshit. It's a worse cover than the original one. And it's also much worse than the cover I imagined when I made up the cover. This one:

Oh, look, boobies! Not all THAT different from my initial cover, but I think all the naked women and the red smoke and the guys with guns work together when the women are actually, visibly naked. Plus, this is erotica, dammit! Those two brown nipple dots aren't going to destroy anyone who's sane. And setting your standards for insane people is insane!

And the hell of it is, I have a lot of VERY NAKED covers. For example:


And this:

These covers are current covers that are just fine by Direct2Digital. I have no idea why. In any event, my apologies for the cover art. It was not my idea.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Slavegirl Lingo 101

 
This is what slavegirls mean when they talk about "Getting the hookup."

From "The Neighbors: Housewife Bound & Fucked in the Ass by Kinky Neighbors!" starring (from left to right): Isis Love, Chanel Preston and Ramon Nomar, kink.com shoot #101158.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

A TRUE Porn Star

 
A TRUE porn star is a woman who can be stripped naked, tied hand and foot, get fucked orally and anally by two different Masters at the same time, and STILL manage to give the cameraman the eye! Certainly puts true Scotsmen in perspective!

Jada Stevens, Mr. Pete and Mark Davis in "Married to the Mob" kink.com shoot 14647. 


Monday, April 14, 2025

A Great Promo Video from Kling AI And A Couple of Very Bad Videos

I started this Kling video by removing the text from my book cover art, getting this image.
The original artwork. Surely the basis for an interesting video!

Watch it and weep... for joy! On my third attempt I got this very usable video. The prompt for this one was: "A room filled with smoke, lit by red light, with women screaming as men enter the room firing weapons. One woman dangles from the ceiling kicking her legs wildly, one woman lies still on the floor, another woman is bent over, frozen in fear."

The first time I ran the art through Kling AI I went with a simple, straightforward prompt: "A room filled with smoke, lit by red light, with women screaming and struggling to escape as men enter the room firing weapons at other men." and I got this:

This is actually a pretty good video. Except for the woman in the foreground who kinda... deflates. I did not ask for that! But I do like the way the blonde's expression changes, and the way that bit of drool dangling from her chin sways as she sways. Interesting stuff! But unusable because of Deflating Woman. 

This one KINDA works, but although the woman in the foreground doesn't deflate as severely as in the last video, she does deflate some. And why does the soldier stick his rifle barrel in the butt of the woman lying on the floor? I did not ask for that! Let her pine for the fjords in peace! Prompt for this one was: "A room filled with smoke, lit by red light, with women screaming and struggling to escape as men enter the room firing weapons. One woman dangles from the ceiling kicking her legs wildly, one woman lies still on the floor, another woman is bent over, collapsing as she is shot."

Finally I came up with the prompt you see in the first video, which did "work" for me and I hope it works for you. That concludes our lesson in Bad AI Videos for today!

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Cover Story: "Prison Bitch 3" The Hell Of Leonardo AI And Other Tribulations

Once again too impoverished to hire a cover artist, I sallied forth with my limited skills and helplessly left-brained brain to create a masterpiece and came forth with, well, probably not a masterpiece.

I’ve always liked the weird aesthetic of the old Men’s Adventure magazines, or “sweat mags” as they were also called. They weren’t really bondage porn but they were VERY prone to stories about Nazis, World War II-era Japanese soldiers and other seriously evil types tormenting scantily clad women whose only crime was beauty.

I think that aesthetic would go very well with softcore bondage porn or even hardcore bondage porn. The raw, lurid qualities of the covers translate well into porn. And I had a scene in my story that fit right in with the sweat mag aesthetic, so I was all over it.

What I wanted was a scene of prison guards and raiders shooting it out in a red-lit room filled with smoke and naked or scantily clad screaming women in bondage. For the record, here’s what I came up with:


But getting there was a real pain in the ass. The easy part, it turned out, was getting the naked, scantily clad screaming women. Usually that’s an issue with most commercial art AIs. And Leonardo AI as usual did morphy tricks with hands, feet, breasts and whatnot, but for some reason it wasn’t all that prudish about nudity. Au contraire, as I explained in my post about the Jinkie Jenkins promo cover.

To get the various naked women in bondage I used several mostly naked Second Life avatars and ran them through various bondage poses. I got quite a few images, some of them pretty good, some of them unusable and most of them kind of in the middle. I picked out three and ran them through Leonardo AI to see if I could get them humanized. And mostly it worked.

It worked most spectacularly on the SL avatar that had the best expression. This one:

I have an attachment for my Second Life avatars that allows me to place various expressions on their faces. The horrified and shocked look on the avatar’s face worked beautifully. But the distortion on the mouth was too much for the SL avatar to handle. Although the expression was approximately correct, the mouth was misshapen, ruining the whole effect.

Fortunately, when I ran the avatar through Leonardo AI it corrected the mouth perfectly. It also added to the shock and horror of the expression and made the flesh more smooth and lifelike.

I also wanted a body lying on the floor. That proved very easy, the SL avatar in a sleeping pose worked fine. The hands were especially nice, and I was afraid that when I ran it through Leonardo AI it would do its usual hi-jinks with the hands. But it did not, they came out beautifully, and the flesh came out fleshier, too.

Those hand are just exquisite. I suspect because the fingers are fully extended and roughly in parallel. Very unlike AI art to get them so right. Butt came out nice, too, not like the pussybutts.

So we had our picture of a dead woman. Except, in case there’s some rule against dead women on the covers of erotica, I want it clearly understood that the woman is not dead, she is merely pining for the fjords, as sex slaves sometimes do.

Finally, there was our woman hanging from the ceiling, who is of course Kim Halstead, the protagonist of the story. Her SL avatar was problematical. Her feet were a mess and her torso was kind of twisty.

So I ran it through Leonardo AI hoping for improvement and I got some. The torso came out fine, the face and hair were more lifelike, but the feet were still a mess and in fact her calves had some weird new bulges to them. Also her facial expression was wrong. She was supposed to be terrified. But the ballgag prevented her mouth from conveying her terror, and her eyes were staring calmly at the viewer and her brows were relaxed, giving her more of a "What’s-all-this-then?" expression. Which works in some cases of women wearing ballgags but not this one. So I had to go in there and use my vaunted artistic skills to make her look horrified.

The torso on this Leonardo AI output doesn't look twisty, but the feet are still a mess and there are all sorts of strange lumps on her calves that weren't there before. Plus, her expression is what art directors call "All Wrong."

Leonardo doesn't "get" ballgags at all. So I got a few like this. But at least the horrible ballgag and mouth distract from what's going on with the hands.

This is the best result I got from Leonardo AI. The fingers are dodgy and the she doesn't look terrified or horrified, just... concerned.

New and improved! I didn't spot the issue with the expression until I already had the background art and a lot of the smoke laid in, plus I'd altered the darkness of the image to fit in more with the "smoke-filled room" atmosphere. That's why the image is so much darker than the others. I erased portions of the old eyebrows, drew in new ones, widened the eyes and put in a little drool from the ballgag for good measure. (Also it subtly makes her look more helpless and out of control.) And I lopped off an extra finger or three that were on the original.

With my naked women quota fulfilled, I needed the background art, the room in which the gunfight was being held, filled with smoke and lit by red lights.

Generally, Leonardo AI and other art AIs don’t do well with crowds and people shooting guns. I would much rather have gone to Deposit Photos and used it for background art. But Deposit Photos (and most other image services) generally are weak on images of gunfights inside a room or a building. There are lots of images of soldiers fighting in the outdoors, but very few interior shots.

So it was back to Leonardo AI. And it is better than Deposit Photos about giving you soldiers fighting in a room. The problem was that the soldiers often pointed their guns at their allies, rather than the enemy. And they sometimes did not hold the guns properly. The guns also tended to morph and generally look sus. I had wanted an image of two groups of men firing guns at one another with screaming naked women caught in the crossfire.

But what I wound up settling for was one group of men carrying guns and running toward the viewer. Only one of them was pointing his gun at an ally! Then I placed the naked women screaming in the foreground.

And the thing I had to tie it all together with was smoke. Yeah, that red smoke covers up a lot of sins, and I’m not just talking about Kim’s nipples and genitals. I’m also talking about those ugly feet and calves. And the screaming woman’s breasts. And her hands. Smoke is my new favorite cover art element!

OK, not EXACTLY what I wanted, but there ARE soldiers in a room.

OK, SOMEBODY'S about to get shot. Just not any identifiable enemies. This happened a LOT.

After all this work I wound up with a cover that was a lot closer to my original intent than I expected. Was it as good as I would have gotten if I’d hired a decent cover artist? Of course not. But I do like it. It does have that sweat mag cover feel to it. Will readers like it, too? I guess we’ll find out…

Saturday, April 12, 2025

When Protagonists Collide in "Prison Bitch 3: Red Hell In Club Rape!"

Lexi Belle looking lovely as she enjoys the feel of the vibrator wand tucked between her legs with the wand head placed where it will do the most pleasure. It's one of several images I used to help establish the mood for some scenes. At least, that's what I tell my wife, but I don't think she buys it...

Lexi Belle from kink.com shoot 5660.

Mack Beacher is a takeoff on Jack Reacher, the hero of a series of books by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Beacher is introduced at the very end of “Club Rape” the second book in my Prison Bitch trilogy. He’s very much an action hero, a traveling investigator who breaks up crime rings and such as he finds him in his travels around America.

The relative of another victim of Club Rape tell Beacher about the goings-on at Brookhaven Prison while Beacher is visiting Lubbock, Texas, and that’s enough to get Beacher to Brookhaven. He gets a job as a guard there and quickly discovers that all the rumors about Club Rape are true and he sets up plans to raid Club Rape in a way that Casto can’t adapt to.

That’s all early in the story, no real spoilers. Point is, Beacher is coming at Club Rape like the protagonist of an action hero story, but he’s not really the protagonist of the Prison Bitch series, Kim and her friends are. To him Kim and the other victims are almost non-player characters in their story, but they don’t see themselves that way. This conflict becomes important later in the story, which is really about what having a good life means. It’s the literary aspect of the story, pitting what “winning” means to an action hero versus what it means to the heroine of an erotic thriller.

I like to think this adds depth to my story, but whether it does or not is of course, the reader’s judgment to make. Along those lines, I made sure Beacher wasn’t a cartoonishly shallow character. He’s got a code and he lives by it, and if he has to accept responsibility for unfortunate events, he does so. He’s not normal, he’s an action hero, but he’s not shallow.

With all this action heroing and so forth going on, you might think it was difficult for me to find ways to have lots of kinky bondage sex scenes in my story, but no, it was quite easy, actually, and the scenes helped build the characters and themes as well. It’s a win win win! Hopefully this will make for a compelling sexy read. Only one way to discover the truth… get the book here!

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Great Antique Shop Find!

 
When Abella saw the device at the antique shop she thought she'd found some incredible old farmhouse implement. Her Master didn't know what it was used for originally, but he had his own ideas about it.

Abella Danger in kink.com shoot 41449, "HR Nightmare."

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

So Romantic

 

When Master chains you to his bed even when he's already got you tied up and gagged... that's when you KNOW he's thinking... "she's a keeper!"

From "The Loan Shark's Daughter," Kink.com shoot 38398, starring Alina West and Seth Gamble

Monday, April 7, 2025

Woopsies!

 

Finally here she was, tied down good, totally helpless, ready to be fu... oh, right, there was supposed to be something else. There was supposed to be a guy here to fuck her! And untie her! She KNEW she'd forgotten something!

Image source: kink.com shoot 30710, "Rougher, Harder, Crazier!" featuring Kenzie Vaughn and James Deen.

Sunday, April 6, 2025

New "Jenkie Jenkins, Snoopy Reporter: Captured By Gangsters" Promo Art Via Leonardo AI

Had to share this. This is what happens when Lenardo gets things right. This is from the same avatar I used for the cover art. Leonardo removed the nipple shields and the ballgag and created breasts with nipples and everything. Wow. (See SL Avatar below.) And if you want to buy the book, a very popular one of mine, here's the link.

Amazing! This is the SL avatar art I sent to Leonardo AI which then created the female figure above. I did not ask fot the nipple shields to be removed, not the ballgag, nor the thong, nor the leg shackles. My exact prompt was: "A redheaded woman kneels on the floor." The background art was from a prompt, and was harder to get than the avatar image. It kept wanting to have a central focus on one or two people, even though I asked for background art with no central focus. I don't think Leonardo understands "background art" at all.

Leonardo AI Introduces: The Pussybutt!

 

This is where it all started. I uploaded this image of a Second Life avatar to Leonardo AI just to see how Leonardo would deal with it. I used Image to Image in Legacy mode to create a lifelike, kinda/sorta image of my avatar. I already had a pretty good idea that Leonardo AI would deal with the image badly. But how badly, and in what way? It took only seconds to find out!

What I got was... the pussybutt! In almost every case, Leonardo AI decided that at the juncture of the upper butt cheeks there should be a pussy. But it's more, much more, well maybe not a WHOLE lot more, but definitely more. If you close in on the upper portion of the avatar, it becomes evident that what has happened is that the Leonardo AI apparently decided that the image wasn't looking down at a woman bending over in front of the viewer. Instead, it decided that the viewer was sitting behind the avatar, looking up at her naked butt cheeks and lower back and upper thighs which had been flipped upside down and remounted to her torso in a surgery too awful to even have a name.

I am an experienced AI creator. I had expected hands to become feet and feet to become hands. But I never expected the pussybutt. I also never expected a breast to morph into an arm with a foothand at its end. Makes the hand that morphed into a foot look prosaic.

We'll close with the one image where a pussy butt didn't appear. This one. Apparently on this occasion Leonardo AI recognized the string thong the avatar is wearing for what it is, and did the inappropriate thing. Of course. Now the string thong slides between the avatar's butt cheeks and disappears into a seriously misplaced anus. If you look close you can see that Leonardo AI even dirtied up the bit of string that's halfway into the seriously misplaced anus. That's commitment! And you also have to wonder, if the thong string is in the anus, what would be holding the bottom of the pussy cover in place? It could be flapping around all over the place. Unless... unless the string at the front is shoved into the woman's vagina. Though that would make hiding the vagina more difficult, if not impossible. Maybe... maybe the front strong could be tied to a dildo thrust deep into the vagina, a dildo with a large triangular shield on its end that stays out of the vagina and shields it. Is this... is this how fashion designers think? Am I becoming a defacto fashion designer here? Scary! Anyway, the string could disappear into another, normally placed anus. She would just have two anuses. Nothing wrong with that! It's almost enough to make up for the hand that became a foot and the foot that's becoming a hand and the breast that has morphed into a flesh connector of some kind between the avatar's rib cage and her knee. Of course. I think I'll stop now before I become a Lovecraftian fasion designer, and before Leonardo AI creates something even more Lovecraftian for me to wonder about.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Cowboys Have It Easy

Cowboys have it easy. They can lift themselves by their bootstraps. Slavegirls, however, are required to lift themselves by their butthooks.

Image is from "The Training of Claire Robbins, Day 3" starring Claire Robbins, kink.com shoot 28939.

Friday, April 4, 2025

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Here's lookin' at you!

She was a charming and incredibly flexible woman but he never could get used to the way she could twist her neck like that.

Image source is Roxanne Rae (face) Lauren Phillips (butt) and Derek Pierce (cock) from kink.com shoot 40171.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Rich Bitch, Prison Bitch Trilogy Picked Up By Hillmark Productions As Part of Sassy Prison Rape TV Series Aimed At Young Adult Viewers

 
by: Pat Powers

Special to: Hollywood Inside Scoop

April 1, 2025


“Why not rape?” asked Hillmark Senior Vice President in Charge of Acquisitions Cherry Sassoon as I sat with her and discussed the new Hillmark series based on my semi-incredible “Prison Bitch Trilogy.” “That was the question that always hovered over the table when we had discussions about what new properties to pick up. We knew we were doing a fine job of covering the market for insipid, almost humorless romcoms. And we’ve got the romantic cozy mystery market sewed up, too.

“But we also knew that there was a huge market out there for rape erotica, bondage erotica, incest erotica and bestiality erotica that we were underserving, in the sense of not serving them at all, in any way,” Sassoon continued.

“Isn’t serving those markets mostly illegal?” I asked.

“Not in the purely legal sense,” said Sassoon. “The only porn that’s straight up illegal is the underage stuff. Hillmark will never touch that market, because our own viewers would tear us limb from limb if we tried.”

“That does sound awful,” I observed painfully.

“Oh, it was… I mean, it would be,” said Sassoon. “Anyway, we decided that the most popular way to go was rape. There were all sorts of good reasons for this. About 70 million of them, in fact.”

“Seventy million?” I asked. “Where did you get that number?”

“That’s the number of copies of “Fifty Shades of Gray” sold worldwide in its first YEAR of release,” said Sassoon.

“But Fifty Shades of Gray isn’t about rape, it’s about a consensual BDSM relationship,” I said.

“Oh, that’s just tedious rapey-wapey timey wimey stuff,” said Sassoon. “Rape, BDSM, bondage, romance, they’re all pretty much the same. You say potayto, I say puhtato. The old timey romance writers knew the truth of it.”

“All right, I’ll bite,” I said. “How is romance the same as rape? It would seem to be the complete opposite.”

“No, rape is the ultimate in romance,” said Sassoon. “The old time romance writers had a subgenre called “bodice rippers” which were basically historical rape romance stories. The male MC, typically a pirate or a sheik, kidnaps a proper English or American woman and is so overwhelmed by her beauty and grace and charm or whatever that he rapes her. Then they make up and fall in love and he apologizes to her and rapes her some more and then proposes marriage and they both live rapily ever after.”

“But I wrote the “Prison Bitch” trilogy, god help me, and there are no romantic rapes at all in it,” I said. “All the rapists were psychopaths and sociopaths of various stripes.”

“Oh yeah? What about that Paul guy at the end?” Sassoon asked. “He is supposed to be very romantic.”

“He’s not a rapist, he’s a consensual lover, very big on safewords and so forth,” I said. “Did you even read the books?”

“Of course not, that’s why you hire English majors, women with no lives, to read stuff so I don’t have to. They condensed the trilogy into this one sheet of paper here,” Sassoon said, holding up a battered, stained piece of paper with a few paragraphs typed on it. “This kind of time-saving is why I’m an executive. Plus having the wit to see the romance behind all the rape.”

“So, the rape story is going to become a romance, I see,” I said. “Any other intriguing changes to the story in the books?”

“Oh, yes indeed,” said Sassoon. “We’re thinking we need to pull back on the whole rich bitch storyline. What with all the Luigi stuff that’s happened in real life, it’s kind of obvious that our readership may not be in the market for stories about wealthy people unless it’s a fall from grace type story. So we’re thinking of having Kim be a welder or a beautician or something.”

“But “Rich Bitch, Prison Bitch” IS a fall from grace story,” I said. “It’s right there in the title. Kim starts out a rich bitch and winds up a prison bitch in every sense of the word. She goes from shady banker and party girl to everyone’s favorite rape victim. You can’t have a bigger fall from grace!”

“Sure, there’s a fall from grace of sorts in there, I suppose,” said Sassoon. “But it’s not enough of a fall to make up for her early wealth in these days. So that is not happening. She’s a welder, or a sassy waitress like AOC, something like that. And she get picked up for shoplifting milk for someone else’s baby, and goes to jail and gets raped because, of course, she’s a beautiful welder. Well, ex-welder.”

“And how is the rape going to be handled?” I asked, dreading the answer.

“Two ways,” said Sassoon. “We have two markets here, older readers who want to recapture the gauzy pleasures of old-time bodice ripper romances, and more modern readers who are down to watch fucking. For the older readers we’ll have a version where, as soon as they get past the chaste kissing stage, which basically is as soon as the sex starts, we’ll cut away to a visual metaphor. Like maybe a pillow tightly wrapped in rope being poked repeatedly with an eggplant with sexy moaning and grunting in the background. Something along those lines.”

“Sounds boffo to me,” I said agreeably. “What about younger viewers?”

Oh, we’ll give them a long, steamy erotic buildup lots of near-nudity and some full nudity, but no genitals, you know, and no genitals in action,” said Sassoon. “I mean, they will do some fucking, but only R-rated stuff, you won’t see tab A going into Slot B nor any of the other slots. And what you do see won't last too long.”

“How do you plan to tie her up?” I asked.

“Well, about that…” said Sassoon. “We where thinking maybe a blindfold would do the trick for delivering the kinky.”

“Mrs. Sassoon, the people who read my book read it BECAUSE of all the bondage and rape, not despite it,” I said. “They wanted those extreme sexual bondage scenes, they enjoy them. If you back off from the sexual bondage they are not going to stick around for the story, riveting though it is. You’re not going to get those seventy million viewers you wanted.”

“Well maybe not seventy million,” Sassoon agreed. “But we’ll get quite a few. While I’m sure your readers enjoyed your books, my summary of Fifty Shades of Gray indicates it was pretty damn tame.”

“Oh, it was, I read it,” I said. “Eight chapters until they got around to kissing, very tame indeed. But when they did get down to it, they got down to it big time. She was cuffed, blindfolded, tied up and being fucked in the movie. And the movie had very, very good box office.”

“Ah,” said Sassoon. I could see the dollar signs flashing in her otherwise empty eyes. “That’s a very good point. Can’t let censors destroy artistic qualities, now can we?”

“You’d be surprised how much the sort of people who read my books care about artistic qualities,” I observed.

“The summary does say your books are full of artistic qualities,” said Sassoon, nodding sagely.

“My readers wouldn’t have it any other way,” I said.


Note: the day after the interview with Cherry I received a call from Hillmark’s HIP (Hot Intellectual Properties) department head. She explained to me that Hillmark had chosen the script based on my story to be converted into the first story in a brand new series about a coven of detective witches who try to change the bad reputation of witches by solving crimes and doing good deeds using their special powers. Also, a giant spider will be a regular character in the show. They’ll start by rescuing the inmates of Brookhaven Prison from Club Rape. This will necessitate further changes in the script, but I am assured that the spirit of the story will be fully served, whatever that means.

I’m so glad I got my check in advance!