Fiction. Erotica. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Mapped out on a playing field of ticklish male flesh, MY NAME IS RAND follows a young man on his search for the ultimate erotic adventure. Betrayed by his own skin into a helplessly eroticized state, he becomes a captive of a bizarre torture camp where men practice extreme tickling. After several near-death experiences he stumbles across a hiding place where several desperate men plot escape while taking physical solace in each other. Sweatily detailed in its depiction of men driven over the edge, this nightmarish novel is a bondage epic, a horror comic, and a totally original speculation on the nature of time and consciousness.
Author of the memoir 'A Report from Winter'--a death-in-the-family story that is also a gay love story, set against the beauty and harshness of a Maine winter.
Courtois grew up in Maine and now lives in Kansas City with his partner of more than 20 years. His previous work includes an erotic novel, 'My Name Is Rand,' that was published in 2004. Visit his website at www.reportfromwinter.com. "
Wayne Courtois delivers an Odyssey of extreme-bondage and tickle-torture sure to elicit gasps and groans in equal measure. My Name is Rand explores new sexual territory where men are bound and tickled to the point of madness, submitting completely to their master’s desires. This goes well beyond the typical S&M scenes you’ve become accustomed to; Wayne Courtois takes you on a strange and intensely erotic journey you’ve never yet imagined.
The narrator starts off exploring his unique fetish with a tickle-master met online, but is abducted before he can return home. He is removed to The Compound, a tickle-torture camp where people are literally tickled to death. He is run through a gauntlet of tickling and bondage that leaves him near madness, and then left to face the nemesis of Dred Junior, a psychotic who can mentally tickle you. The narrator stumbles upon a hiding place where other inmates are planning escape, and they take spiritual and sexual solace in one another.
Already becoming a cult classic among foot and tickle fetishists worldwide, My Name Is Rand is a powerful and delirious novel which will introduce you to a whole new world of sex play. Welcome to your new fetish.
I had no idea tickle torture was a thing before I read “My Name is Rand,” and although my tastes run toward the vanilla (with a couple of other flavors), the concept has no appeal in reality whatsoever. In fantasy, however, I would entertain the notion. And like Jeff Mann, who makes BDSM sound like fun, Courtois does the same here. Entertaining, educating…I was (dare I say it?) tickled.
Tickling is absolute torture to me; seeing it written as such, with a sexual edge, is sure to make me uncomfortable...so, yeah - I'll wait 'til I need it for a challenge. Maybe.