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Summary: Nope, Julie was right. It WAS a twinkie!
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I was with Julie that day and yes, it was a twinkie that Christie had in her hand. She must have gotten confused with the yoodle she had just eaten right before. "Creepy" Christie "two-ton" Sexton is still as large and stinky as ever and hasn't change at all since high school. Plus, even though she got her degree in psych now, she still works at the GAP!
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Summary: An honest and objective review
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I've read the book and it is very good. I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I give very few movies or books 5 stars because to me that means perfection. This book is not perfection but it is quite book on a number of levels.
Ms Sutton's research is solid as she quotes from many reliable and credible sources. This is particularly true in the chapter on why women are the superior gender. Ms Sutton also gives the reader a history lesson on how FemDom has evolved in Europe and the US since the Victorian era. There is also a chapter on spirituality that would impress those that attend regular Bible studies. Her interpretation of scriptures might not be agreed upon by all but I found her point of view to be convincing.
The majority of the book is about sexuality and if you are inclined toward this particular sexuality, you will find this book to be very enticing and sexually stimulating.
Overall, this is a solid book and seeing that it is Ms Sutton's first published work, I think she did a wonderful job.
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Summary: Slaves Should Buy This Book!
Review: As a dominant young woman, I was gratified to come across Elise Sutton's website and learn of her published book. Feeling an affinity for her work and mindset, I decided to buy her book. And while you little worms out there writhe and squirm, complaining about an "offshoot" of her website -- let I remind you this is a free country; if you don't want to "pay," then don't. (It's as simple as that!)
Now about the book: I find it noteworthy -- and Elise Sutton to be a pioneer. And all you complaining submissive men should get your priorities straight and support her -- as she has supported you all these years in expressing yourselves and your innermost desires.
The book is broken up into 16 sections, included here are chapters on "The Male Submissive Nature" as well as "Cuckolding," etc. This book seems to be the culmination of years of patient study. She includes portions of "real-life" letters to underscore well thought-out insights regarding cultural gender roles, male psychology, and the evolution of female/male relationships as more and more women come out of the closet, so to speak, to take charge of the power that is naturally theirs. I found this entire book well worth the money, and -- again as a dominant woman establishing my rightful place in the world -- empowering. Women need to take charge with loving authority; we also know that there are a substantial number of men, ever-growing, that are waiting for us to do so.
Pick up a copy! Now! Another book I need to recommend -- completely unrelated to Ms. Sutton, but very much on my mind since I purchased a "used" copy off Amazon is "The Losers' Club" by Richard Perez -- another exceptional, highly entertaining little book I can't stop thinking about, further proof that femdom is getting a more prominent -- and permanent -- foothold in popular culture.
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Summary: A LOOK AT THE GROWING PHENOMINOM OF FEMALE DOMINATION
Review: Bringing her expertise as not only a psychologist, but also a dominant female, Elise Sutton has written what I consider to be the best non-fiction book on female domination. Rather than going into the quality of writing here, as well as Ms. Sutton's insight into the subject matter (the other reviewers have done a terrific job with that), I'd just like to touch on some of the different chapters that delve into the vast area of female domination and how many couples choose to apply this growing trend to their own lifestyles. At the beginning of the book, Ms. Sutton carefully explores her own unique experiences in this field and the psychology behind man's desire to be controlled in the bedroom and outside of the bedroom by a strong, dominant woman. The author examines the history of female domination and the masochistic desires of the male, mostly from the mid-Eighteen Hundreds to the present. She then goes on to show how modern-day couples use female domination within their own marriages, incorporating discipline, English corporal punishment, cross-dressing, orgasm denial, cuckoldry, mental and verbal humiliation, water sports, and leather to add spice and variety to their lives. Ms. Sutton is the first to say that each couple is different and therefore must find what best works for them. The author also stresses that for any of this to work, there must be love, intimacy, communication, and trust between the man and woman. With honesty and open communication, the couple is able to experiment and thus find the things that bring excitement and a stronger sense of love and devotion into the marriage. One thing that certainly stands out is the growing phenomenon of female domination. As time goes by and the female species becomes more powerful in the work place and in less need of a male counterpart, the urge to incorporate female domination into one's marriage increases. During the next hundred years, the balance of power may very well shift to the female and man may find himself on his knees before his lovely Goddess, desiring nothing more than to please her in whatever way she desires.
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Summary: Marvelous, Spectacular, Fantastic!
Review: Can you tell that I loved this book? What a masterful work of literature Ms Sutton has created to educate the populace about a prevalent sexuality which is rarely discussed in a serious forum. This is an important book because it examines a common male longing and relates it to a growing societal phenomenon.
Female Domination (or as Ms Sutton refers to it, Loving Female Authority) is the natural progression from feminism. The social implications of the male desire to be in submission to women are significant. Ms Sutton does a superb job in linking the male fantasy for female domination with the societal ascension of the female gender.
The eroticism of the book is the icing on the cake. Rarely will you find a book that can educate, entertain and arouse the sexual senses at the same time. Ms Sutton has achieved that trifecta with this book.
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And for the record, I am a female who is young, intelligent and beautiful. I proudly practice the female domination lifestyle and I know other beautiful women who do likewise.
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Summary: I couldn¿t put it down. Best read I¿ve had in a long time!
Review: Female Domination is an underground sexuality that is gaining in popularity. What was once a topic reserved for fantasy literature is now making its way into the mainstream of society. Elise Sutton may very well bring Female Domination all the way into the mainstream of society with this book. The book captured me from the preface and introduction all the way through the final chapter. The introduction is worth the price of this book alone. The author grabbed my attention and I thought she was reading my life story as she described the internal sexual desires of the male gender. Once she had my full attention, Ms Elise Sutton took me on a journey into the reality that is Female Domination; past, present and future. What the reader will discover is that the reality is even more fascinating than fantasy. The reader will learn of such secret clubs and organizations as The SM society, the Alice Kerr-Sutherland society, The Eulenspiegel society, ClubFEM, and People Exchanging Power. These are all real organizations that practice Female Domination but these are merely small components in the big picture of the world of FemDom. Most FemDom is practiced in private, within the marriage relationship by normal, ordinary people that one would never suspect. Elise Sutton takes the reader into the private lives of these people and behind the closed doors of their bedrooms. Do women really spank and whip their husbands? Do women really deny their spouses intercourse while demanding they be pleasured and denied nothing in the sexual domain? Are some husbands feminized and expected to do the bulk of the housework? Do women really utilize humiliation techniques in order to train their husbands to be better servants? Do some men really view themselves as slaves and their wives as their Mistress, Queen or Goddess? Elise Sutton takes the reader on a fascinating ride into the real lives of real couples and reveals that the answer to the above questions is "affirmative". Yet, the reader will come to admire and even respect these couples because it is obvious that the lifestyle they have chosen to live is mutual and based on love and trust. It is the man that wants this lifestyle and in most cases, yearns for it. Elise Sutton reveals that Female Domination and male submission is a lifestyle based on the male desire for Loving Female Authority and that serving a woman is a blessing and an honor. The male desire for FemDom has existed since the dawn of human history but what is different today is that women are coming into power and are beginning to desire to rule the men in their lives with female authority. Thus Female Domination has moved from being a male fantasy over into becoming an ever-present reality for many couples. This book is a fascinating read and a real education into a growing alternative lifestyle. Like Ms Sutton poetically states in her book, "society is changing one female/male relationship at a time".
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Summary: A TOUR DE FORCE IN THE STUDY OF SEXUALITY
Review: Finally someone has written a book on Female Domination that can be taken into the classroom, into the bedroom, and into the Church Discussion Group. Ms. Sutton has created an amazingly insightful, erudite and sexy book, based on scores of real life experiences, that covers everything from emotional ties to bondage ties to how God might view (and bless) consensual, Femdom relationships. You go, Girl....I mean Ms. Sutton.
- Brett
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Summary: Does not speak to the heart, soul, or mind of this woman!
Review: I am a 38 year old sexual female dominant, successful small business owner, and more importantly a mother and wife. My husband and I have been in a D/s relationship now for some ten years. It is indeed a very loving, sensual, and caring relationship. This book was given to me as some-what as a gag gift by one of my friends who learned of the lifestyle that my husband and I live. I set the book aside for a while because of work but just finished it about two weeks ago. It does not surprise my to find some of the very negative reviews about this book here. As a woman and mother to children of both genders, I find the message in this book very damaging to women. Ms. Sutton has a very negative agenda and ironically something of an anti-sex slant. In the first part of her book she describes her personal experiences with BDSM and her husband, Henry. We read of Henry's extreme submissiveness in his marriage, which Ms. Sutton shows extends outside of the bedroom and extends even in their public lives. Reading about Henry was not at all sexy. I find such a man, as I know many women would-both dominant and otherwise-highly unattractive. A man should be strong. Ms. Sutton, however unwittingly, is equating submission with weakness. There is definitely a want to see men weak and even pathetic. I do not understand this nor do I find it an attractive quality, let alone a sexual turn-on. In her book she writes how women will rule the world soon and men will become "trophy husbands." She very much wants to see males as second class citizens. Aside from the superior, condescending, pedantic tone, what was most angering to me as a woman was that Ms. Sutton was attempting to speak for all women. Despite tritely saying the obvious that each couple is unique, she offers not real range of lifestyles of beliefs and approaches. The underlying philosophy is the same and the book quickly becomes repetitive and boring. Even in the subsequent chapters, which profiled the relationships of some forty couples, the stories were culled to clearly fit Ms. Sutton's narrow world view. Ms. Sutton, however, does not speak for women at large. Dominant or submissive, kinky or vanilla, we women wish to marry up-not down. This is not, as the unsaid claim Ms. Sutton is making, however unwittingly, a capitulation to male power but a natural womanly desire to have a good quality man-a real man-who is nurturing, caring, loving, smart, and educated. Ms. Sutton though wants to see a female supremacy over men, and this speaks to me of a woman coming from anger and jealousy and even masked hatred for men-not a natural erotic inclination to dominate as she is claiming. In college I knew some women like Ms. Sutton and had a couple as instructors. These Ms. Havisham types were against motherhood and marriage and wanting to see a punishing role-reversal of what was their shortcomings and personal pains. They warned that men would hold us down. Even sex with men was something to be avoided! Ms. Sutton has this thinking, for in what is the most angering thing to me is that she is against vaginal intercourse, saying that soon women will not want it and instead want to penetrate men with strapons. This is the old Andrea Dworkin stance against intercourse, frighteningly equating it with rape itself. Intercourse with men is also not a capitulation to male power. I love vaginal intercourse. I love the feeling of my lover within me. I would submit a woman that doesn't and feels that intercourse is an unwelcoming act has something profoundly psychologically wrong with her. This sexual view point and disdain for the penis and intercourse begs the question of what would truly motivate this believe and thinking. I sincerely believe that this woman might have been a sexual abuse victim and wishes to symbolically and psychologically castrate men and assume the male role. Moreover, and most angering of all was equating female power and dominance with a strapon. How insulting to femininity! This is in essence saying that real dominance comes from the phallus. As a woman, I do not need such a silly practice to assert my feminine power. I would find a man wanting of such a thing as not a man and seriously see him a poor light. How can you claim female dominance when you have to resort to mimicking a man's form? I used to think Freud had silly notions, but this book makes you reconsider them. Lastly, I fear the anger that this kind of backward thinking is causing in some men. I fear for my daughters. Boyhood is something of a largely neglected area today. Nationwide rape has increased. Males tend to become more reactionary and indifferent I feel when society becomes more isolated and neglects our boys. The kind of world Ms. Sutton wants is not the world I want for myself and especially for my children, and I doubt Ms. Sutton would know anything about that, as I suspect she is not a parent herself and clueless to the full spectrum of human dynamics, sexual or otherwise, between men and women. A woman can have it all today and doesn't need to sexually emulate a man, as Ms. Sutton advertises. I am only happy I actually did not pay for this copy and that it was just a gift. Save your money folks and buy a copy of Different Loving instead.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I am a collector of FemDom media, including books, magazines and movies. If it involves female domination, I usually buy it. It is more than a hobby, it is my lifetime obsession. Therefore, imagine my surprise when I purchased and read Ms Sutton's book. I could relate to this book right from the introduction. I had read the Kalmann Diaries in the 1980's just like Jeremy. I was also moved to arousal when watching Hollywood movies with FemDom scenes like The Choir Boys, Real Men and My Tutor. I visited professional Dommes just like many of the men interviewed in this book. I could really relate to this book.
Most FemDom websites, books, and magazines are solely for fantasy. Women such as Ms Sutton, Lady Misato (of the Real Women Don't Do Housework website) and one of my favorite authors, Lorelei (The Mistress Manual), have brought FemDom into the mainstream by broaching this subject matter with intelligence. This book is not hardcore fantasy but a realistic look at female domination.
Given Ms Sutton's educational background, I was half expecting a book similar to Erotic Power by Gini Graham Scott. Nothing against that book, but Erotic Power was more of an academia research and thus did not appeal to me. Ms Sutton's book was a pleasant surprise because not only is it an intelligent look at female domination, but it has enough eroticism to appeal to a hardwired submissive male, which I am.
If you are like me and love female domination, you will love this book.
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Summary: The best book ever written on this subject
Review: If you are a male who fantasizes about female domination or entertains sexual thoughts about female domination, this is the book for you. If you are a feminist who wants to better understand the current trend toward female dominance in our society, this is the book for you. If you are a BDSM enthusiast who prefers for the woman to be in charge, this is the book for you. If you are a confused wife trying to figure out why your husband surfs FemDom websites and reads FemDom magazines, this is the book for you.
But if you prefer a vanilla sexuality or a traditional relationship or if you prefer the patriarch society of our forefathers, than perhaps you should look elsewhere. And please ignore the 1 star reviews below, for they are all from the same person. "Fed Up", "A real lifestyle domme", "William", "Alan Alan", "Jon Jon", and "Alex Trebek" are the same gentleman, and he needs to get a life.
People who have actually read this book will appreciate the author's passion, convictions and intellect, whether they agree or disagree with her philosophy. This book is well written, well researched and it will make you think as long as you keep an open mind.
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