The Q Letters: True Stories of Sadomasochism

by John York and "Sir" John

Book Overview

An account of the S/M scene by a man who has participated in it for more than twenty-five years. Known in the S/M world as 'Sir' John, he has kept a careful record of his experiences in the form of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087975821X
• ISBN13: 9780879758219
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Too good to be true?

An amazing book, with a Dom "too good" to be real...to be honest, it's as if a woman wrote this book because the Dom is just as most submissive women would want him to be. If this John Q is real, I'd love to meet him...he's what I've always been looking and waiting for. In any case, a great read, thanks to the author whatever his/her sex.

Too good to be true!

I agree with another review that said "The Q LEtters is the best book about S/M since the "Story of O". Even better because it's true!!! It is not just that it's so informative about BDSM it's incredibly sexy and exciting! I have read a number of "fantasy books" about BDSM, and this one tells it like it is. Really is!! Sure, parts of the book are Scary, but after reading some of the letters in the book that Sir John got from his "SLAVES", it's obvious that they were sometimes "pushes" a little, but they made it clear that was Exactly what they wanted! wow..> He made them SO happy. I can only hope to have such a Master! Read this book if you have ever wondered about S/M. Very Satisfying..

"The Q Letters" s a MUST read!

...It is a detailed, exciting, fascinating, and sexy "history" of the adventures of the most expert and total Master ....Even better, you'll read letters and diaries written by many of his slaves, and learn about their adventues, too, and how they felt about being Sir John's slave.If youu're interested at all in BDSM, this is a MUST read!

Good book for the honestly curious.

While an interesting read to anyone familar with sadomasochism from the inside, this book realy offers more to those who are curious from either a psychological or a sexual interest. Far from being scary or unrealistic fantasy, it's frank and honest about a subject still too often considered taboo by a part of "polite" society which then goes on to ineptly try to practice it.

I felt like a bell that had been rung for the first time.

When I went quietly searching for a book on this topic, this was the only one available. After months of wandering alone inside my dark places, trying to distinguish by blind touch the form and feel of these new discoveries and questions inside of me - this book flipped the switch in me, and suddenly, there was light. Some of this book is difficult to read, but the Author very seductively and subtley weaves the chords of the psychological, spiritual and emotional evolutions that permeate this journey. This unfolds both from the perspective of the Master's journey to live inside the truth of who and what He is, and the variety of motivating sets of urgent love and other aching longings that drives the submissive to offer her gifts. If one can get beyond being distracted or frightened by the details of the physical explorations and hear the voices resonating within these tales, one will hear the hearts that long and need to know this kind of love -- and do. This book has changed this reader forever: and she does not know whether to thank the Author or curse the day she learned to read. If you are searching and wondering about your sexual DNA -- read this story: and not only the words on the page. From the persepctive of a novice who is concerned about safety, this book is not a "how to." Those questions will be answered elsewhere. Rather it is a delicious wine-tasting of BSDM/ so let its tastes and textures float in and entice your mouth and be careful about what you swallow.