I apologize if this has been mentioned before, or if it's not that much of a satisfying find; there's not much of it, but it certainly fires my imagination.
The <i>Kushiel</i> series, written by Jacqueline Carey--at the moment consisting of <i>Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen,</i> and <i>Kushiel's Avatar</i>--is a wonderfully written series, set in an alternate Renaissance Europe where the worship of love has replaced Christianity, about a woman who "experiences pleasure and pain as one". Many of the scenes in the book deal with bondage and SM games, which I know doesn't appeal to everyone, but there is a scene in <i>Kushiel's Chosen</i> that alludes to this forum's interests:
(Paperback, pg. 127)
"One story entire was given over to their pleasures, and in truth, it was as well stocked with toys as any seraglio of the Night Court. There was a flagellary with whips and crops and tawses, pincers and feathered ticklers ... [a]nd all of these things Apollonaire and Dianne de Fhirze used on me, trading off in a well-orchestrated game, so that I must needs please the one while the other tormented me nearly beyond bearing."
(A brief scene follows where the male participant of the menage is all pleasured out and begs for the game to cease.)
"... a fresh wave of pain lanced my body, doubled and suspended as it was. 'Do <i>you</i> say it is enough?' she said ominously, trailing a pinion-feather along the soft skin of my inner thigh, between my legs, parting my damp and swollen nether lips with the tip of it.
"One would think, after hard usage, the nerve-endings would grow dull to such finesse. Mayhap it is true with others. It is not true with me. I whimpered and closed my eyes, breathing the words of my response. 'As you wish...my lady.' "
I thought it was pretty cool, at least.
(All work is copyright of the author, and all of the important stuff like that.)
The <i>Kushiel</i> series, written by Jacqueline Carey--at the moment consisting of <i>Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen,</i> and <i>Kushiel's Avatar</i>--is a wonderfully written series, set in an alternate Renaissance Europe where the worship of love has replaced Christianity, about a woman who "experiences pleasure and pain as one". Many of the scenes in the book deal with bondage and SM games, which I know doesn't appeal to everyone, but there is a scene in <i>Kushiel's Chosen</i> that alludes to this forum's interests:
(Paperback, pg. 127)
"One story entire was given over to their pleasures, and in truth, it was as well stocked with toys as any seraglio of the Night Court. There was a flagellary with whips and crops and tawses, pincers and feathered ticklers ... [a]nd all of these things Apollonaire and Dianne de Fhirze used on me, trading off in a well-orchestrated game, so that I must needs please the one while the other tormented me nearly beyond bearing."
(A brief scene follows where the male participant of the menage is all pleasured out and begs for the game to cease.)
"... a fresh wave of pain lanced my body, doubled and suspended as it was. 'Do <i>you</i> say it is enough?' she said ominously, trailing a pinion-feather along the soft skin of my inner thigh, between my legs, parting my damp and swollen nether lips with the tip of it.
"One would think, after hard usage, the nerve-endings would grow dull to such finesse. Mayhap it is true with others. It is not true with me. I whimpered and closed my eyes, breathing the words of my response. 'As you wish...my lady.' "
I thought it was pretty cool, at least.
(All work is copyright of the author, and all of the important stuff like that.)