{"id":2273,"date":"2020-11-09T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mistressayn.com\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:24:33","slug":"venus-in-furs-a-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mistressayn.com\/blog\/venus-in-furs-a-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus in Furs – a book review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I sheepishly admit that I have only recently read the iconic book Venus in Furs.\u00a0 Written in 1870 by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the novella is a FemDom staple and in fact the term masochist originates from the author’s name.\u00a0 I am not sure why I hadn’t read it before.\u00a0 Maybe I balked because it was written so long ago.\u00a0 Maybe I thought I already knew the story, but after learning a bit about Sacher-Masoch’s real life (he desperately wanted to be cuckolded by his wife), I decided to read it.\u00a0 Of course I wanted the Sardax version with all the beautiful illustrations<\/a><\/span> but it took a while to arrive, so I started one of the more readily available interpretations from the original German.<\/p>\n

The book was a quick and relatively easy read.\u00a0 The story, for those that are unfamiliar, is about a young man that is obsessed with thoughts of a dominant and cruel woman.\u00a0 Like many fetishes, Severin’s was born in adolescence when an aunt, dressed in fur, harshly punished him and from that point forward his sexuality was intertwined with that experience.\u00a0 He dreams of a woman he can call his own that would treat him in this manner.\u00a0 Hopefully the incongruity in that statement is not lost on you, as it was Severin.<\/p>\n

Enter Wanda.\u00a0 After admiring Wanda from afar and transferring his fantasies onto her, the two eventually develop a relationship and Severin confides his desires.\u00a0 This is the classic tale of be careful what you wish for and Wanda takes Severin on a physically and mentally cruel journey that he both hates and loves.\u00a0 There is a quite a twist to the end of the story that I don’t want to give away – and it is worth reading to the end to observe the reckoning of fantasy versus reality.\u00a0 \u00a0The story is not salacious.\u00a0 In fact the depictions of sex do not go beyond the occasional kiss or embrace.\u00a0 Instead it’s a journey into mental and physical domination,\u00a0 laced with obsession.<\/p>\n

So I read the version by Fernanda Savage and right on the heels of finishing it the Sardax translation arrived.\u00a0 I thumbed through the book, enjoying the gorgeous art.\u00a0 Simply out of curiosity, just to see how Sardax’s interpretation compared to the other book, I read the first chapter and I was sucked right back in.\u00a0 I can’t quite put My finger on why I liked the Sardax version so much more.\u00a0 Maybe it was because the sentence structures were less archaic.\u00a0 Maybe it was because Sardax really understands Femdom.\u00a0 Regardless, it pulled Me back into the story and I enjoyed it even more the second time around.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t read Venus in Furs, treat yourself and order the Sardax translation with illustrations.<\/p>\n

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