Labor Day Weekend, Huzzah!

Have a great Labor Day weekend, everybody! Even the slavegirls are marching to unite workers! (The artwork on the flag is from the Democratic Socialists of Amerca, who are big fans of workers and regular Americans.

Freebie story coming soon!

Image copyright September 2026 by Pat Powers

Sexy Slavegirls Swarm Smashwords Summer Sale

 

Naturally, most of them are looking for books by me. Three of the book covers in this image are mine.

Copyright 2026 by Pat Powers

The Smashwords Summer Sale is now underway and as this virtual online store camera definitively shows, it is being swarmed by mostly naked slavegirls desperate to find great erotica by great erotica writers like Pat Powers.

To prove this is a real virtual camera photo, three of the book covers in this photo are covers of books by Pat Powers. If you are an obsessive person with lots of time on your hands, you can have lots of fun trying to identify them. Also one of the slavegirls in this photo is not a typical slavegirl.

Most of my books are half price and there are several freebies, including two full-length novels. Some great deals to be had here. Here's the URL for my books, have fun there if you are so inclined -- and of COURSE you are so inclined! The sale runs from today, July 1st to July 31st.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/patpowers1995

Only Fitting

As they were untrained slavegirls, it seemed only fitting that they be kept in an unfinished kennel.

Image source: An image search came up with the image as part of a photoset on Exquisite Slave. Exquisite Slave identified the models as Audrey and Abbey, and had a link to Powershotz.com, the apparent origin of the image. But the link did not lead to any products at Powershotz.com.

"Easy" Cover Redo

I had the semi-brilliant idea to run some of my old cover art through Civitai to see if I could get some easy book cover upgrades going. Many of my early and middle period book covers were created with Second Life avatars, and it shows. AI can give a smoother, creamier, richer appearance than Second Life avatars and art. BTW, the brown circle thing they're in is a Second Life bronze collar, with lots of dangly chains. It looked so much better around a neck. So I ran the base art through Civitai and here's what I got:

Well hell to the yes on this image. Granted, there were a few issues, but overall, dayum. Great looking art. The redheads were transformed to brunettes but I loved their faces and their bodies were dynamite. It was nice of Civitai to give the avatars legs. Civitai was also very generous with fingers for their images. There was also the problem that I wanted one of them to look alarmed and one to look welcoming. (The book is about a woman who is both attracted to the prospect of being collared and dreading it as well, hence two identical woman with different expressions.) Clearly I had my work cut out for me.

After several iterations on Civitai, I discovered that the system simply could not or would not parse the prompt asking for one woman to look frightened and the other to look friendly. It could, however get two women to both look friendly, or both look frightened. And since I had created several iterations in the process of finding this out, I had plenty of pics of two woman scowling and of two women smiling. Time for a face transplant! That would give me my smile and cover up the mangled face on the base art. I chose the artwork above for my base because it was the one that had the hand raised in the same pose as the original. Granted, that hand had too many fingers. Then again, the hand on the other woman's hip had even more extra fingers. And then there's the other other hand extending beyond her hip for no apparent reason. And finally the little knot or shield or jewelry, while PERFECT in my view, would not work for an erotica book cover. Genitals must not only be hidden, but very obviously hidden, so that no one will ever suspect that women have vaginas. I had my work cut out for me. But look what I got when I was through:

Ta-da! Just compare this art with the original cover art. Huge difference. Granted it took hours to get to this point. The face transplant was, ironically, the easiest thing to do. All that hair hides a multitude of sins. Much more difficult was the multifingered hand on the waist. I had to do a hip transplant from another iteration to cover the hand, then tediously rework the art to make the hand extending beyond the the hip disappear. I also had to do tedious reworking to make the woman's arm properly appear to be behind her back. And reworking the raised hand to make it look less obviously wrong was also tedious. It still looks kind of wrong but fixing that would involve redrawing her hand and I wasn't up for that, since it would have been even more tredious. Creating a tiny black thong patch to make the women on the left's pussy very obviously covered was much more of a quick and easy job. The secret of women having vaginas on book covers remains safe!

So my easy book cover took... hours. Like, most of the day. Sigh. If you want to read the story itself, and it's one of my most popular books, you can check it out here.

The Joy of Collars and Collaring 1: A Collar For Everyone Who Wants One

"That enough collar for ya, girl?"

Collaring has a great deal of psychological meaning for many kinky folks. For some it is an analogue for a wedding band for kinksters, symbolizing the collarer's ownership of the collar wearer. And for others, it's just another bit of bondage gear. There are no civic structures for kinky relationships like there are for vanilla relationships (i.e., marriage) so these things vary.

This turned out to be important and useful when I decided to create an alternate world where everyone is into dominance and submission. I figured most would be into maledom/femsub stuff, like here on Earth, but there would also be femdom/malesub relationships, as well as gay relationships, asexuals and so forth. There just wouldn't be any, or very rarely, vanilla sexual relationships. It's not that there is any bigotry against vanilla sex, it's just that most people on Collar World wouldn't find it nearly as fun and sexy as kinky sex.

Plus, I didn't want bigotry to be a major theme in the world. “Bigotry is bad”is a good lesson but one well known to most who are into kinky sex. I wanted it to be more of a thought experiment: what kind of world would a world with just kinky people in it be? How would kink culture express itself if it were the dominant culture?

And that's where collaring comes in. To start with, of course, there's a personal collar, where a Master or Mistress gives a sub a collar proclaiming her or him the property of said Master or Mistress, with text that typically says, “XXX, property of ZZZ.” It would probably be the most common sort of collar, and the most sought-after collar.

There would also be Free Use collars, for women who want to have sex with just about anyone, anytime, with some kind of clearly visible hatching that lets Free Use collars be easily identifiable in a crowd or on the street.

There would also be institutional collars, or work collars, that let people know the wearer is on business. Women who have personal collars might have a work tag they hang from one of their personal collar rings, or maybe they'd wear two collars. It would be a matter of taste and practicality.

But work collars would also serve to let women who want a collar but aren't currently in a relationship go about their day without being collared by Masters looking for slaves.

And there would be asexual collars for men and women who don't want to be bothered, or whom are actually asexual, and Temple of the Collar collars for those in service or claiming shelter at a Temple of the Collar, as in the opening of Collar Dread. (I'll save a full explanation of the Temple of the Collar for another post.)

Of course, most Mistresses and Masters wouldn't wear collars at all. They'd be putting collars on the submissives. The lack of a collar would suffice to declare their status.

The point is, on Collar World most people can find a collar (or lack of one) that they are psychologically comfortable wearing. Everyone who wants to feel owned, and most women on Collar World do, can feel owned, generally by a personal Master or Mistress.

I did do one thing in my Collar World stories that I had to for the sake of their salability in the marketplace. And I made some other changes as a result, but more about that in another column. I think I've laid the groundwork here.

The Collar: Advanced Science Fiction Thinking

Some of my most advanced science fiction thinking has been on the topic of collars and collaring, for my Collar World series, which is six books long now, counting works in progress. Already published are “Stolen Collar, Stolen Heart,” a novel, “Collar Dread,” another novel, “Crazy Aunts and Scary Uncles,” a 38,000-word novelette, and “Campus Slut Run,” a 9000-word short story. In the works are “The Visitor from Incel World” (a completed novel, but in editing) and Conquest of Incel World, which I'm about 60,000 words into, but will likely run to 80,000 words or more.

You can find the Amazon links to buy them all at my International Bookstore site.

I've invested a lot into Collar World, but that's primarily because I did some world-building before I set pen to paper. One thing I gave a lot of thought to was the technology of collars.

Currently, collars are inert pieces of metal that are often beautifully designed for aesthetic and functional reasons, but in my Collar World series, they're much more than that.

 This slave collar looks like it could hide the guts of three or four cell phones inside it and still be plenty thick enough to be an effective restraint.

In Collar World, collars are filled with all sorts of tech wizardry. They have GPS locators so their wearers can't get lost, they function as cell phones and as credit cards. They can also record video and conversations. Basically, anything a cell phone can do, a collar can do.

 This collar could probably hide just one cell-phone-equvalent's worth of electronics but one is all that's needed.

The collar can be linked to a dedicated controller, a screen or a desktop controller via cord, bluetooth or wifi, depending.

I don't see why any of this tech isn't possible right now with present day tech. Of course, the collar would have to be a large, thick one, either a leather collar with pockets to hold the electronics or a large metal collar with a hollow interior to hold the electronics. A thin wire necklace collar wouldn't do, though I'm sure if tech collars became popular, Apple would design one.

This isn't completely original with me. In Second Life they have virtual collars that can do all this and more besides, restricting the wearer's sight, hearing and ability to move around in the game, and making their body assume poses whether the wearer likes it or not.

But real life collars that have most functions of a cell phone are, to my mind, definitely possible. Frankly I don't know why we haven't seen them for sale in the specialty websites yet. Well, I do have some guesses, mostly based on ignorance.

For example, I remember reading about the electronic fields created by cell phones was at one time a concern, that having the phones on one's body could lead to sterility, etc.  I don't recall anything ever coming of that, so it probably is not a big deal, but I don't KNOW if that's true. Could be some concerns with wearing a microwave/bluetooth/wifi emitter around your neck. I don't know. But the guys at scifi worldbuilding might.

There may also be cultural barriers. If collars as phones or credit cards for subs became a common thing, phone services might not be willing to carry collar phones, and/or banks might not be willing to process credit transactions from collars.

I don't know that that's the case, just guessing that there might be problems. Banks tend to separate themselves from the sexy.

There might also be physical stresses on the electronics in a collar, but ordinary cell phones have to endure a lot of stress too, and they mostly do all right. And frankly, I think a large metal collar would provide much better protection for the electronics within it than your average cell phone casing, and still keep its wearer securely attached to the bed/post/whatever.

Well, there you have it. Advanced collar tech for the busy sub on the go. Probably not feasible because people get so freaked out about sex in our current culture. But there's no TECHNICAL reason why they couldn't exist, that I know of.

I've also given a lot of advanced science fictional thought to how widely accepted collars for slavegirls (as on Collar World) might work. More on that later.

In the meantime, one of you builders of collars get out there and make my techno-collar visions come true.

Gorgeous Arabian Nights Slave Girls From 1979

Gorgeously constumed slavegirls in the hardcore flick "Arabian Nights." Image source: post on the Vintage Erotica Forums.
This is a very nice pic of some properly gorgeoused-up slavegirls, a production still from a British hardcore short film called "Arabian Nights" made in 1979. You can find out more about it, not at the Internet Movie Database, but at this blog post that has all sorts of details about it. It starred big-busted cutie Nicki Stanton. I'm not absolutely sure which one is Nicki, I bet though she's the one with the largest breasts. You can watch the whole film here at Xhamster.

I put the post up because it reminds me a lot of the cuties at Electric Blue No. 44, as covered in my book Hottitude of Servitude now available on Amazon and very much worth reading. The girls in Arabian Nights are properly decorated, with elaborate headdresses, necklaces, belts, beads, bangles and whatnot. Clearly some costumery shop or belly dance shop was shopped hard for this production. Good to see some pride in a hardcore film. They still did things like that in 1979, instead of going to a hotel room with a video camera and two actors.

Like the girls in "Electric Blue 44," however, the girls in "Arabian Nights" are missing one key element and that's bondage gear. Collars, chains, ropes, gadgets, etc. That's what says "slavegirl" instead of simply "naked cutie." Slavegirls need fricking bondage gear AND glamorous slavegirl bangles, armlets, and similar accoutrement to achieve maximum hottitude. It's a simple matter of common sense.


A naked slave girl chained to a wall is forced to watch another naked, tied slavegirl get fucked. The sex is just as hardcore in "Arabian Nights" but there is no bondage. Unfortunately, in Training of O there is no glamor. Somebody will get it right someday. Maybe. Image source: Training of O. com.