![]() So I’m glad I didn’t try to read Wald’s work when I was, in hindsight, innocent to an extreme, unaware of my own inner masochist. I believe books find us when we most need them-and vice versa. I don’t think the concepts of eroticizing control and “the darker side of desire,” as the cover copy puts it, would have made sense to me. If I’d read it then, I’d surely have been shocked by some of the ideas about power play and control. When Meeting the Master was first published in 1995, I was just starting to tiptoe into the world of reading erotica. ![]() They were fueled by the themes of dominance and submission, yet weren’t limited to a specific genre. Author and Rumpus contributor Elissa Wald made a name for herself over a decade ago, with her powerful BDSM-themed short-story collection Meeting the Master and her novel Holding Fire. ![]()
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