The Story of M...

by Maria Isabel Pita

In M., Maria Isabel Pita tells the truth about being a beautiful, intelligent and intensely sensual woman who refuses to fall into any politically correct category. She is not a feminist, and yet she is fiercely independent. She is everything but a mindless sex object, yet she is willingly, and happily, a masterful man’s love slave. M is erotically submissive and yet also profoundly secure in her own being, and she wrote this account of her ascent into submission for all the women out there who might be confused and frightened by their own contradictory desires just as she was. M is the true story of the author’s first shockingly kinky and profoundly instructive year with the man of her dreams. Her vividly detailed story makes it clear we should never feel guilty about daring to make our deepest, darkest longings come true, and serves as living proof that they do.

Genres: BDSM, Nonfiction, M F Romance, Sexuality, Memoir, Erotica

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

I was born in Havana, Cuba. My family moved to the U.S. when I was eight months old and I grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. Reading, writing and history have been my abiding passions ever since I can remember. In college, I majored in World History, and minored in English Literature and Cultural Anthropology. My most recent works are the Biblical Romance, "Dreaming in Egypt-The Story of Asenath" and Joseph, and the non-fiction "Lucid Dreams and the Holy Spirit."

Before becoming a practicing Catholic, I wrote several erotic romances. An experienced lucid dreamer, I am a member of the International Association For the Study of Dreams, and a regular contributor to the Lucid Dreaming Experience Magazine.

Reviews

[ElaineY · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Story of M chronicles the first year of Missa's training as a submissive under her Master, Stinger. I bought this in paperback but Beauty & Submission (Year 2 of her traning) I bought in e-format as the print books were going at crazy prices.

I found Maria's story riveting and could hardly put it down. Re-named Missa by her Master, Maria's account instills both excitement and abhorrence at the same time. I liked her honesty as she shared her insecurity over Stinger's sexual encounters with other women and though she is somewhat mollified by his reminder that he never fucks another woman unless it's in her presence, I found myself wincing at the thought nonetheless. Still, it was a relief for me who's never found the BDSM lifestyle appealing, to find Missa is no different from us vanilla girls when it comes to love and the green-eyed monster.

Despite Missa's honesty about her ambivalence with regards to the swinging scene, I couldn't help but feel she is less than totally honest about Stinger. The man comes across as a veritable paragon despite his sexual tastes - which I find nothing objectionable except for the icky practice of sharing partners. There's the realistic part of me that reacts to having sex with strangers - hygiene, STDs etc. I can't get away from this since it's not fiction. In my romantic fiction, I can ignore such realities and escape to fantasy but to live out the fantasy is a completely different story altogether!

I found Missa's account erotic and thrilling as I followed her from one scene to the next. What I missed, though, was more depth where Stinger was concerned. All I know about him is that he's in his thirties and is a biologist. He's pretty hunky for a lab rat, wears a ponytail and there're a couple of photos of him in MIP's website http://www.mariaisabelpita.com/

Overall, I enjoyed Missa's two-part memoir very much and if Beauty and Submission ever gets reprinted, I'll buy it to complete Part 1.

[David Schwan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The tale of a submissive woman, Missa. Missa is not a typical submissive, but rather is deeply in love with her master and their relationship shows that while they have other sex partners, they are fundamentally in love with each other. Missa does things in their relationship that would be outside the typical bounds of Master/Slave.

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first serious Master/slave story I read and it is still the most impressive I've come across. The story feels real and the character's reactions feel honest. It has some very sexy scenes and also some honest, not-so-perfect ones.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

The sex scenes are graphic and hot. There is some major insight here into polyamory...the protsgonist is somewhat shallow in her conceptions of beauty i.e. mainstream, but if you can get passed that, the erotica is worth it...

[Luci · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh. Interesting but I don't like her. I spent the entire book wanting to tell her to get over herself.

[Selkie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty much an updated rip-off of "The Story of O", which in my opinion would not even be worth plagiarizing.

[Rachel · Rating 1 out of 5]

dumb dumb dumb