In this first story of the Explorations series, Emily Tilton introduces the reader to her dark fantasy life of erotic submission, drawing us into the exotic and intensely arousing world of the first days of her marriage. With the help of her new husband Charles, Emily will at last explore the forbidden realms of eroticism that she has always tried to deny that she needs—above all her shameful craving for anal submission, discipline, and ravishment. NOTE: This book is very short. If you like it, please consider continuing on with the story in EXPLORATIONS Books 1-5! In the first book of Emily Tilton's series Explorations, we find Emily in the bathroom of the bridal suite dressed only in her new lace thong. With the help of some very naughty viewing and reading, she now knows she craves anal submission. She hopes that her new husband will dominate her, and at the thought cannot help committing the ultimate offense against his rights: self-abuse. The books of Explorations are short, but are 100% BDSM sex. For the softer side, read Emily Tilton's blog! This book of Explorations contains fiction elaborating the following sorts of fantasies that you may wish to avoid: Mf, D/s, anal, toys. All characters depicted are consenting adults. The Explorations series is a unique take on BDSM above all because of the strong individual voice of Emily Tilton herself, manifestly shaping the fantasy-elaborations of the series. Because Emily is interested in helping herself and others understand how BDSM can be lived within a mostly vanilla existence, the way most of us have to live it, Explorations has a unique element that Emily hopes will set it apart and make it useful: Emily has created a fantasy-version of herself (keeping to the tropes of the genre she knows so well, fantasy-Emily is an eighteen-year-old virginal bride with a self-abuse "problem"), whose fantasies and "realities" are the central subject of the stories of Explorations—but the real Emily also keeps her authorial, real voice in the margins, explaining and analyzing, and revealing from time to time the much more mundane, real version of the things Emily has transformed in the story of her fantasy-self. This doubling of the "I" in the first-person narrative of Explorations makes the series worth exploring all on its own. Come for the hot, dark, edgy, D/s, spanking, anal action. Stay for the exploration.
Author
Emily Tilton, whose books have hit number one on Amazon in six different erotica categories, wishes she could live out her fantasies of submission the way her characters do. Emily's erotica is a narrative version of her nearly lifelong quest to reconcile her submissive erotic orientation with her ethics. She writes erotic romance, but her books are always frankly and unashamedly about sex, because writing about sex helps her understand that fundamental part of her life better. She hopes maybe it does the same for her readers. Over the many years since Emily became aware of her sometimes unbearable craving for spanking, ravishment, and all the shameful things that go with it, she has tried to come to terms with that craving in more ways than she can count. The first of the ways was by reading, voraciously, every piece of BDSM erotica she could find. Eventually, she read "Story of O." As is reflected throughout her work, it changed her life, though the change has been gradual, and continues to this day. The idea that other women might share the lusts she has by turns been ashamed of and defiantly proud of, that a woman like the real Pauline Réage might write so beautifully of those lusts, and work them out so thoroughly and even pitilessly on a character, put Réage's famous pencil in her right hand. Or, to put it in the terms of EXPLORATIONS, which she considers her magnum opus, it put her left hand on the keyboard of her laptop and her right hand in her lap, if you know what she means. Emily started to write spanking stories.
