Reddit mentions of The Sleeping Beauty Novels: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty / Beauty's Release / Beauty's Punishment

It started in high school. I was a huge Anne Rice fan and after reading all of her Vampire and Witch books, I stumbled across her Sleeping Beauty series.

I was instantly hooked and better yet, I had an older boyfriend that was more then willing to play little spanking, light bondage games with me. I always wanted to go farther and farther, but he was a little reserved. I think he was afraid of leaving marks on me, and rightly so.. (there were 6 years between us, when we started seeing each other he was 21, I was 15)

Around 19 and 20 I had very torrid affairs with two much older women, both extremely aggressive. From their things just snowballed... I had a few lovers, a few long term relationships, all lacking in something Before I knew it I was actively searching out dominants and submissives online. I took two lovers: One was a local submissive man. One was a long distance dom.

The submissive man was supposed to let me get my dominant sadistic side out, before I would pack up to live with the dom. He was disposable and I was mean as fuck. I was also his first experience with BDSM. I remember telling him "Don't be so stupid as to fall in love with me. I am leaving in a few months".

Two things happened. Can you guess? I fell in love with my disposable play toy and married him. Long distance dom and I ended badly - I think the last thing I said to him was "don't tell me what to do". Ha!

So years later, here I am. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Anne Rice wrote "erotica" in and around when she was writing the vampire books- I think that Belinda was one of her earlier novels, and then there were the Beauty books, although now I see that she's got her real name on them as well as her old pen name.

I think that depending on the type of books you write you can certainly easily get away with writing porn, and probably for posing it as well.


I'd certainly thought a few times about doing it when I was younger, but now I'm glad that I didn't. Only because I could have had no idea of the directions my life would take, and there were a few situations where if there were pictures around it could have damaged my credibility enough (if they were found), that it could have possibly destroyed a few things which were pretty important to me.

I personally Love the Kushiel series as Burndog suggested. It's a really awesome story and has hot kink to boot.

If you are more interested in erotica, try Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice

The pictures. Not the words. This series of books by Anne Rice's pseudonym is pornography using words. They have decency standards when it comes to pictures. This is mainly because children have access to credit cards and can purchase material intended for adults. Granted it's still hypocrisy, but it's a little less.

I think this plays a role in my complete disinterest...I have my degree in English too, so I have a low tolerance for garbage. I've heard of a trilogy written by Anne Rice, that sounds much more interesting than this nonsense.

The Story of O
Anything by Cherise Sinclair
Carrie's Story, and Safe Word both by Molly Weatherfield
The Sleeping Beauty novels by Anna Rice