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Aswad -> RE: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Books that Click with your BDSM Interests (7/20/2007 7:49:10 PM)
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I'll add my vote for Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth and Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.
The former has Confessors, whose unrestrained touch strengthens the tiniest spark of not-entirely-negative feelings for them to the point where it overcomes every other facet of the person, who is then lost in sheer adoration and an insatiable desire to serve and please. Male confessors are not seen in the series, though, as something in the magic makes them never learn restraint. Further, as mentioned elsewhere, the series has Mord'Sith, a leather-clad elite corps of female terror troops used for capture and interrogation, mostly of hostile wizards. Their absolute joy at their work, along with the detailed descriptions of their various exploits, add a nice touch to the series.
WoT, on the other hand, spans the gamut of human sexual expression, portraying a post-utopian world where any orientation or relationship form is taken as a matter of course. With the exception of sul'dam and damane, as mentioned by nephandi, the other portrayals are fairly discreet, not very explicit or in-your-face, so as to not disturb the less liberal readership (flat-demographic bestseller). Heck, I didn't notice that two of the female protagonists are essentially Romeo and Juliet, until someone pointed it out to me. It's hard to miss the sul'dam and their "pets", the damane, though. Most of the stuff in the books is what one would call "healthy sexuality", though (realistically enough) there are also people who abuse their positions, existing power dynamics and so forth.
Apart from that, it is funny that nobody mentioned J. Norman; is the gap to that community so large?
P.S.: For those who are into pen&paper, both WoT and SoT work wonderfully for kink-positive gaming.
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