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Tough Love: The True Story of My Submissive Adventures

by Kate Julia White (Goodreads Author)

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read in July 2016

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Katie said: " Suppose you come home from work one day and find your husband online checking out a very kinky website and instead of freaking out, you say "Honey, that's so hot, let's check it out together." That's the premise of Tough Love.

Kate Julia White's a wit Suppose you come home from work one day and find your husband online checking out a very kinky website and instead of freaking out, you say "Honey, that's so hot, let's check it out together." That's the premise of Tough Love.

Kate Julia White's a witty writer whose memoir nails the social norms of both British suburban living and the kinkster/swinger lifestyle. She worries a bit about the other PTA moms uncovering her kinky lifestyle at times -- like when the home where she's attending a swingers party turns out of be on the same street where her kids recently attended a birthday party. She doesn't sweat the possibility of discovery for too long, explaining "as long as you keep your guests from stealing parking spaces and stay within acceptable noise levels, there's not much your average English person will do, more than gossiping, even if they are curious or annoyed."

Reading her memoir is like having a glass of wine with a friend who's a bit of an over-sharer. On one hand, you're so enjoying listing to her sexual escapade and thinking "you did what????" On the other, you're thinking, "Wait, which guy is this again?" because she's told you about so many encounters it's hard to keep them straight.

As others have pointed out, the book could use a bit of pruning but as long as you don't read it in one sitting, or expect it to have a narrative arc, you could view the length as getting more crazy stories for your money.

And they are really crazy stories about what happens when she responds to men who post online ads looking for women who want to have dominant/submissive relationships, what happens when you go to a partner-swapping party and your spouse wants to, shall we say, "engage with" another couple but you're not so keen on the spouse you'll be engaging with, and how being naked in a group of 20-somethings makes you feel about your post-pregnancy (x2) body.

Note: I provided this review after reading a copy of the book White sent to me through the BDSM group on Goodreads. ...more "

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