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ORIGINAL: Misstoyou

I like the idea, and I think you can translate the experience to "vanilla." I can envision it going from the technically simple (even starting with "mental bondage" ?) to the more complex. But Stephann is right. Perhaps you should tell us what elements/chapters you've already thought about, and then see if we can expand or supplement your ideas.

** Edited to add that if you're serious about making it a vanilla book, I think you would need to discuss techniques that apply to both sexes.

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ORIGINAL: earthycouple

um...Well there are such books available already.  Midori springs to mind.  So I say there is a market

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ORIGINAL: PairOfDimes

Oh, an "intro to bondage" book? Check out Chanta Rose's Bondage for Sex--is that the sort of thing you want to do? There seems to be a good market for bondage books. However, I think most people who are absolutely new to kink go for "survey" books--books that cover a little bit of bondage, a little bit of spanking, a little bit of roleplay, and so on. Think of it as a Whitman's Sampler of kink. An entire book about a particular technique seems better suited to people who are already pretty well convinced that they like bondage (or genitorture, or electroplay, or whatever) and those books tend to cover very beginning techniques ("This is how you tie a single limb cuff,") and go partway into more advanced techniques as well ("This is how you do a shrimp tie,") perhaps because elementary bondage wouldn't fill a whole book.

As for writing from a submissive man's perspective--most bondage works irrespective of sex or gender. Genital bondage doesn't quite work the same way for outy parts as for inny parts, but that's only a very small, niche element of bondage. And men and women do have different centers for suspension, but that's hardly something you would want to cover in an introduction to bondage! Really, though, men are typically bigger and need a little more rope, but other than that, both men and women have arms, legs, torsos, etc. that work about the same.

By the way, this model isn't limited to kink. Cookbooks, for example, work this way--you buy Joy of Cooking (a survey book) to get started, you try several recipes and realize that you want to learn more about French cooking, so you buy Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

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ORIGINAL: thetammyjo

My first bit of advice is to read every book written about consensual bondage that is all ready in print or has been in print.

Only write your book if you can offer something that is original or there will be little reason for someone to buy your book over another book about consensual bondage.

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ORIGINAL: michaelOfGeorgia

do they have an "Idiots Guide To Bondage"

LOL

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ORIGINAL: cleaningsub

i am a writer and i have decided to try and write a vanilla instructional bondage instructional book.  i got the inspiration from LilyRedd (Thank you very much).  My question here is what would you like to see in a book like this?  i plan on having lots of collaberators so please feel free to contact me.  i know this is a huge undertaking and i am not even sure how far to take this.  Any suggestions would be most welcome.

al

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ORIGINAL: cleaningsub

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ORIGINAL: thetammyjo

My first bit of advice is to read every book written about consensual bondage that is all ready in print or has been in print.

Only write your book if you can offer something that is original or there will be little reason for someone to buy your book over another book about consensual bondage.

Thank you. i have already started looking at books and trying to go at it from a different angle. What that angle is, i am not sure yet which is why i am asking you guys.
Thanks,

al

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ORIGINAL: thetammyjo

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ORIGINAL: cleaningsub

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ORIGINAL: thetammyjo

My first bit of advice is to read every book written about consensual bondage that is all ready in print or has been in print.

Only write your book if you can offer something that is original or there will be little reason for someone to buy your book over another book about consensual bondage.

Thank you. i have already started looking at books and trying to go at it from a different angle. What that angle is, i am not sure yet which is why i am asking you guys.
Thanks,

al

Since you mentioned a vanilla audience I think you aren't talking about an entire book just about bondage. Maybe a column in a magazine or a chapter or partial chapter in a general sex book -- there are a lot of those.

You'll want to look at vanilla books that offer sex advice and tips too.

Think about it. If they are vanilla they aren't likely to get a book about bondage but instead experiment with mild restraint that they find in the general sex books or in movies, videos, things like that.

Getting into bondage means they are crossing the line from vanilla to kinky. They may never do more than bondage but I personally would say they've gone beyond vanilla.

So identify your audience and remember to write to them not to you or to us.