Bondage Is the Ultimate Intimacy

"I’ve been a bondage fanatic since I first understood that the word obey could be used in a bedroom," Alison Tyler writes in her introduction to Twisted, a commanding collection that proves bondage can bring you closer to your object of desire. Whether by rope or silk scarf or cuffs, your bonds will be even tighter if you surrender to pleasures through BDSM. Twisted is a taut anthology by award-winning editor Tyler, who has found stellar writing with kink at the core. In Sommer Marsden’s "A Keeper," we learn that one woman’s paint stirrer is another man’s paddle. Andrea Dale’s "Tie Me Up" reveals the loving urgency of kink as an expression of romance, while Kristina Lloyd’s sub in "Dry Spell" discovers how obedience pays off in delicious dividends.

These are stories that delve deep into erotic restriction, stories that will make you perk up and take notice...or bind you down and make you behave.