Kinky Poll : Fisting
How kinky a reader are you?
Is there an element of kink that is your absolute favourite to read about?
Or do you skim read the bits that make you squirm?
We thought a “Kinky Poll” would be fun…. and of course your answers are totally anonymous 🙂
Fist up.. um, I mean FIRST up is fisting. This is something that I find both sexy and quite terrifying. The level of trust required is huge, and I think this is what can make it so very powerful to read. Check out this blog, Powerful Pleasures, for a little bit of info on the practice of fisting.
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We have quite a range – dare I say a handful? (Okay, enough of the silly wordplays. Promise!) 😛
Mark Cooper, in Mark Cooper versus America, is only just learning that he may in fact have this particular kink; and the cyber fisting with Mallian, in Dirty Deeds, is as sexy as hell; in between are some powerhouse characters in some amazing books. Which have you read? and which blew you away? or alternately… you can pick the option that covers your particular outlook – “never read it” or “WILL never read it”.
We would also love for you to comment – tell us what you think of this particular kink in books that you have read. Below is a little bit about each book we have covered – and we know there are loads more out there!
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Special Forces is an epic work of military gay erotic fiction, which is available for free online.
The three cycles are finished and published: Soldiers, (Ch 1–19) and Mercenaries (Ch 20-53) and Veterans (Ch 54-70). Special Forces has 70 chapters in total.
It is the epic story of a Scottish SAS soldier and a Soviet spetsnaz soldier. Two enemies who meet in the line of duty during the early days of the Soviet Union’s last war in Afghanistan. Behind enemy lines respect and finally love grow … but that’s only the official version.
The reality of these two men is dark, brutal, fuelled by aggression and insane lust. Steeped in pain and killing, with death as their shoulder companion, these Special Forces soldiers meet in 1980. Their intense hatred caused by rape, revenge and torture turning into fucked-up lust and years of secret encounters in the rat-infested labyrinth of Kabul and the Afghan mountains. Time, despair and desolation smoothing down the sharpness of hatred, its venom drained with each physical encounter, the lust helping to form an understanding that only two men of the same kind can share. Enemy Mine and Brothers in Arms – on two different sides.
This novel spans across over twenty-five years of their lives. It’s harsh and violent, but life is cruel and they just do what they need to survive.
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Roe Davis is a man who works hard, keeps to himself, and never mixes business with pleasure — until he takes a weekend away from his new job at Nowhere Ranch and runs into the owner at the only gay bar for two hundred miles. Getting involved with the boss is a bad idea, but Travis Loving is hard to say no to, especially when it turns out their kinks line up like a pair of custom-cut rails. As Loving points out, so long as this is sex on the side, no interfering with the job, they could make it work.
The truth is, there’s good reason Roe never settles down and always spends his birthdays and holidays celebrating alone. Shut out in the cold by his family years ago, Roe survived by declaring he didn’t need a home. As his affair with Loving grows into more than just sex, Roe finds out what happens when he stays put a little bit too long: the past always catches up with you. Eventually, even a loner gets lonely, and home will grow up through whatever cracks you leave open for it — even in a place called Nowhere.
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Mark Cooper is angry, homesick, and about to take his stepdad’s dubious advice and rush Prescott College’s biggest party fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. Greek life is as foreign to Aussie transplant Mark as Pennsylvania’s snowstorms and bear sightings. So, when the fraternity extends Mark a bid, Mark vows to get himself kicked out by the end of pledge period. But then he’s drawn into Alpha Delt’s feud with a neighboring fraternity.
Studious Deacon Holt is disappointed to learn Mark’s pledging Alpha Delt, his fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa’s sworn enemy. Mark is too beautiful for Deacon to pass up an invitation for sex, but beyond sex, Deacon’s not sure. He wants a relationship, but a difficult family situation prevents him from pursuing anything beyond his studies.
Mark and Deacon’s affair heats up as the war between their fraternities escalates. They explore kinks they didn’t know they had while keeping their liaison a secret from their brothers. But what Romeo and Juliet didn’t teach these star-crossed lovers is how to move beyond sex and into a place where they share more than a bed. That’s something they’ll have to figure out on their own—if the friction between their houses, and between Mark and America, doesn’t tear them apart.
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Two seasoned operatives finally meet their match: each other.
Cillian works for the mysterious Special Branch 20: an organization that runs black ops commissioned by the British government. His specialty is deep undercover assignments with virtually no support. He’s been alone for so long that he no longer knows anything else.
Mal’s also used to being alone. Wanted in several states and even more countries, he’s not allowed in the vicinity of any of his former Navy SEAL teammates. And his current assignment is to track Cillian in order to discover the spook’s endgame. Except he’s no longer sure which one of them is getting played.
Cillian isn’t about to let the mission that’s consumed him for the past several years crumble because an outsider is poking around where he doesn’t belong. But Mal forces his way through Cillian’s defenses—and into his heart—exposing a devastating betrayal that could destroy them both.
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Jeffrey Kuyper was a once-in-a-generation talent and I was his muse.
Jeffrey’s death shocked the art world and upended my life. His last portrait is an intimate reminder of our final weeks together. Now it’s up for auction and I want it more than anything. When a cold-mannered man in a dark suit outbids me, I’ll agree to anything to buy it from him–even a weekend in his bed.
I like reading fisting.. ugh, maybe “like” is the wrong word – but in any written sexual act it is only as intense or beautiful or powerful as the protagonists. If I am in love with the guys and the scene is written well – then really, I can read anything 🙂
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Oh Dear Barb, this is one hell of a topic 🙂
Well, of course I’ve read fisting, my firstm/m book was Soldiers from Special Forces for crying out loud. Will I ever read again? Hell yeah. I think I’m that strong stomach reader when it comes to kinks that will not skim read something easily. I draw a line with watersports and scatting, but beyond that I can read and enjoy easily a vast range of kinks. That is not to say that a perfectly healthy kink can’t turn your stomach upside-down when it’s badly written, but then again even a simple lovescene can do that in that case.
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Amen!
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I can take it or leave it. It won’t put me off a book that otherwise looks good, but it’s not something I seek out. I’ve been known to skim over scenes that are too graphic, but it hasn’t put me off the book as a whole. If I’m just reading the emotional journey then I’m more likely to stay with it.
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Yep. I agree. Actually the only thing I do skim or totally dnf is unexpected girlie bits LOL
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While it certainly won’t put me off or stop me reading a book that has it in it, fisting really does take the sexy out of the equation for me. It doesn’t stop me enjoying the book, but I will always skip those scenes.
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I get what you are saying – for me, fisting is not so much about the act as it is about a powerful connection (no pun intended) and the massive level of trust between the 2 guys – that is what hits me. Hard.
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I have no squick factor. I read anything and everything. BUT (pun intended) fisting makes my belly flip. Some scenes I’ve read are hot as hell, others not so much. And I think the difference would be the trust I feel between the 2 characters (I hear ya Barb).
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I first read about fisting in a Madeline Oh M/F BDSM story, and then found John Preston (!)
It doesn’t disturb me b/c I think this is the most intense type of action within a BDSM relationship, needing an inordinate amount of trust between the Dom/sub. So it can be incredibly emotional. 🙂
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I guess you could say I don’t have a problem with it since I have read 4 out of the 5 books you have listed in your poll, plus many more not listed. 😀 I agree with you, Barb. Reading about it can be hot, but what fascinates me the most is the level of trust between the characters.
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I have read it. In the instances where I have run into it, I have stayed with the story. However, if I know in advance that it will be a part of the sex scenes, I will avoid the book entirely. Not for me.
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I’ve read it plenty of times and it doesn’t bother me. Now sounding? I know I don’t have the parts and sometimes I have to skim over it, but I’m getting used to that too. Man, I’m sounding like such perv. Oh well. 🙂
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Oooh sounding is coming up soon 🙂
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And…. I knew I liked you 😉
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I’ll have to chime in on that one! I think I really like you too. ❤
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I think the first fisting story I read was Sean Michael’s Jarhead series. I don’t like all the raw dirty talk from that series, (not my kink) but his description of preparing for and completing a fisting scene was both educational & hot. I don’t want to experience it or watch it, but I really like to read about fisting, sounding, toys and many other kinks. I like it when authors discuss preparation, consequences and reality. I know these books are fantasy, but I appreciate when the authors have the characters prepare for the more intense acts as people would have to in real life. It teaches novices like me the facts of life that teachers never shared!
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