Give

I wrote “GIVE” several few years ago; at the time, I was in a longterm relationship without D/s, and the D/s side of me apparently couldn’t be repressed entirely. So I began to write down my thoughts, and the book slowly took shape. 

I went to school for anthropology and playwrighting; I write songs, and will hopefully soon be putting up a link to a performance of my one-person musical, “What Sharp Teeth”. I’m best known for my events – The Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire and the Steampunk World’s Fair, to name two.

At the time of this writing, I’m 34 years old and live in Hackensack, New Jersey, right outside of New York City. I polyamorous and in two longterm, lifestyle D/s relationships.

…As I write that last bit, it sounds to me almost like the “proofs” people put on the back of books on relationship counselling – “so-and-so has been married for twenty years to her partner…” I don’t intend it that way; “GIVE” is, indeed, hopefully useful to (among others!) people who do some sort of lifestyle D/s. But it’s primarily about the exchange of power between consenting parties. It’s not about the specifics of developing a given relationship; it only offers tools for making chosen power a part of that relationship. But I will say this… without those tools, I wouldn’t have had the courage, myself, to go after the relationships I now have. I hope they may, in some or many ways, be equally helpful to you.