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Adventures in the Pain Trade
by Mistress Alma
illustrated by Bill Ward
Bizarre Books BB – 171
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1979

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It's likely that authors' names on Bizarre Books are pseudonyms. There is no Mistress Alma, but designing a novel as the work of a 20th century dominatrix permits the writer to present events from the female character's viewpoint.

In the first-person narrative, Mistress Alma mentions her humble beginnings and describes first encounters with masochists that lead her to believe she can develop a career hurting and insulting people who want it so bad that they will pay for it. As events develop for her, she creates a business that satisfies the desires of masochists and others. She enjoys the work.

The back cover provides this summary:

Shortly after leaving her home in West Virginia for the sinful cities of the Midwest, Mistress Alma discovered her special talent for devising ways of inflicting pain and degradation on her willing male victims. After spending a year developing her own methods of domination, Alma moved to California, where she lives today and practices her own unique methods of female domination on some of the most famous people in the world.

Mistress Alma's descriptions of three-way pain show incest, domination and other special and exotic sensual techniques leave nothing to the imagination. As one of the most thrilling tales of the Mistress of Exquisite Pain, you won't want to miss Adventures in the Pain Trade.

She learns a lot from Harry Stevens, her first devotee. Working in a bar, she expects all men to want sex. But Harry wants her to dress up in fetish attire and spike heels and whip him. He's excited about her service and rents a house for her, which he visits on business trips. The following describes the kind of abuse that Harry craved:

"Why don't you start by coming over here and licking my shoes, Harry," I ordered, a cold, hard tinge to my voice. "I got them all dusty walking over here. I want you to clean them with your tongue . . . make them nice and shiny again."

He was down on his knees in a flash, crawling over to the bed and taking one of my feet in his hands. He brought it up to his lips and caressed the shiny leather, licking along my instep, then down to the pointed toe. Harry caressed the patent leather with his tongue, marveling at how lovely my legs were, seeing how perfect the swell of muscle and the smooth lines of my ankle were. At the same time, his eyes were darting lewdly up to the nakedness of my hairy crotch. I had worn no panties today, wanting to get him horny quickly for the work I had in mind.

"Lick the sole," I laughed mirthlessly, seeing him flush from the insulting words, unable to stop himself from doing what I commanded. As he did so, I stared at him in wonder. It seemed strange to know that I could make this man do anything I wanted. I was still too new at the S/M game to realize all the possibilities, but I suddenly wanted to punish him for all the abuse I had ever gotten from men. It was as if Harry Stevens suddenly represented all of them in my eyes.

While he was running his long tongue over the dusty sole of my shoe, I lifted my other foot and pressed my shoe down against his pulsating cock under the robe and jockey shorts, massaging it with my foot, stimulating the incredible hard-on further.

"Have you got any more of those weird leather costumes with you?" I asked, remembering how turned-on he had become when I put on the leather corselet the day before.

"Yes," he said, blushing, pointing to one of his suitcases. "I always bring some things along in case I meet someone like you."

"That's good, you stupid jerk," I laughed. "Because I feel like dressing up and putting you through your paces tonight.”

The author provides chilling details about varied punishment utensils that agonize and humiliate Alma's kinky clientele. She uses dildos, genital binders, enemas and collars, plus an assortment of whips and conventional bondage devices. Many scenes include boot and shoe worship. She enjoys sex with multiple characters.

To accomplish close correlation of story and art, the text was reset for the ebook iteration. Few changes were made to the professional prose. About 36000 words.

Twelve illustrations by the Great Bill Ward illuminate the story. His pictures delineate the grand female form of the sexy protagonist, dressed in full fetish regalia, in moods that morph from fun to fury.

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