A new chapter of The Lust World

Following on from yesterday's new episode of the Chronicles of Triple P I have posted a new Chapter of The Lust World here.

The Chronicles of Triple P: The Day after the Ball

I have posted another new episode of The Chronicles of Triple P here.  This is the longest Chronicle by far, some 25% longer than the next longest, but only covers one day.  This is because I has a lot of  of contemporaneous material to draw on.  This included a five page entry in my journal, a draft letter I wrote to A about it but, wisely, never sent, a letter back from a friend at Cambridge responding to a letter from me where we discussed girls in some biological detail (he had just done It for the first time),  a half completed short story I wrote that summer based almost entirely on that day and a long letter H wrote to K, which she showed me recently.  K told me that she was enjoying my reminiscences but not necessarily all the stuff about 'fluids'. A typical K comment!

The rather unexciting photograph at the top of this chapter (and this post) was the view from the fire door to the corridor my room was on in the first year down the staircase.  Most of the pictures I use I took at the time but at this point I had yet to get a proper SLR camera and, sadly, never took a picture of my rooms in the first year.  I took this one last summer, when back for my College gaudy but it hasn't changed at all apart from the domed light, which I think is new.  Above is the opposite view looking up to the door to the corridor where my room was.

This was the paved area outside the entrance to my staircase, which was formed from a group of eighteenth century houses on the High Street.  It was at the furthest corner of college from the entrance and many people at College never ventured there.  It was a rather dirty white when I was there not this rather tasteful green colour.  Up on the first floor, in the centre of the picture, is the room K and I had for the College gaudy.

In this view, looking down from the open window above the door in the picture immediately above, is the paved area between my staircase and the modern one of C and K on the left.  The arch on the right takes you past the organ scholar's room, through to the quad, which you crossed to get to the law library, the nice bathroom and H's room

Chapter 27 of The Lust World and the return of Chapter Notes.

I have just posted the next chapter of The Lust World, Chapter 27, here.  The following Chapter is almost ready as well but I will probably wait to put that up after Christmas.  In the meantime, I need to finish the next Chapter of The Chronicles of Triple P. 

I have also started up my new The Lust World Chapter Notes blog, which includes some of my research for the story.  I have to repopulate it but have made a start here.

A new chapter of The Lust World

I have just posted another new Chapter of The Lust World here.  This episode features a sort of raffle using an Ottoman  helmet as a hat.  The current chapters were written a year or so ago but I am rewriting them to match subsequent developments in the story and due to requests from some of my particular friends.  Yes, B, there will be a bound and beaten man!

I was hoping to have at least six  months without any travel but it looks like I will be going to Dallas in February.  Better than El Salvador, anyway! 

The Chronicles of Triple P - The Sisters: Part 2

Magdalen Bridge with punts, 1980

I have just posted the first new Chronicle since my old account was closed, here.  I had already written about a quarter of this when my earlier account was deleted so lost it and have had to reconstruct the beginning, at least.  This is based on a quite an  extensive journal entry I wrote shortly afterwards and some letters I wrote to A to which she responded, giving me some more detail.  The events were so memorable that I can still recall most of them very clearly, even thirty seven years later!

This episode features punting and this is a photo of the punt rollers, mentioned in the piece, between the upper and lower Cherwell which I took the following summer.  The girl at front left is really rather splendid and is wearing an unusually short skirt for the time.  In Oxford, the flat deck is always at the bow but in Cambridge it is at the stern and it is on this that Cambridge punters, like J, stand.

The Lust World -another new chapter

Today I added another new chapter of the Lust World which you can read here.  So far this brings the total posted to about 300 pages of the story and I have written 775 pages so far.  I have not posted for several weeks as I have been in Africa, Texas and Central America for the last two weeks or so.  I have also not been able to post in my other blogs either.  I am away again for another three days but, hopefully, normal posting will be resumed next week! 

Another Chronicle of Triple P (my first new one for some months) is also well on the way and should be posted in the next two weeks.

The Lust World: a new chapter

Although it has been less than a week since I posted the previous chapter of my erotic adventure story, The Lust World, the last chapter, which saw the action move to Lord Hoxton's stately home in Hampshire, has already attracted the most views of any of the previous chapters.  So, in order to keep the momentum going, I have now posted Chapter 21 here.

Several people have written to say that they did not enjoy the last chapters, one in particular because of the BDSM element.  However, as he rightly said, this was a popular theme in Victorian and Edwardian erotic literature and in art and photography too and so I wanted to include it.  The readers of Edmund Molloy's book in 1913 would certainly have expected such scenes. distasteful as they now may seem to some modern views.  I do think that the difference is, whether it is consesnsual (as in the story).  In period erotica it is rarely so and I read a piece (form The Pearl, I think) where the violence was really quite nasty and was not, as in much of the erotica of the time, about the person being beaten really enjoying it.  

Illustration by Luc Lafnet (Jim Black) (1899-1939)

Also, several people who are following the story do like these scenes and have requested them.  Personally, having been brought up in, essentially, an all female household I was rather shocked to discover that there were women who enjoy light bondage and spanking.  One girlfriend, in particular, really did like being tied up and pushed around a bit which I found very difficult to do.  I am, however, someone who can separate fiction from reality.  I enjoy reading military fiction, by the likes of Bernard Cornwell, but I certainly have no desire to be in the army, fight and kill.  It doesn't mean that I don't enjoy reading battle scenes, however.  

Likewise, in period erotica, there is a great deal made of women being taken against their will.  Often this is portrayed as women protesting against advances when they don't mean it (the implication often being that surrendering would mark them as a slut and therefore protesting, despite their desire, is seen as what nice girls would do).  In this literature, there are also some scenes of women being taken against their will and, of course, then finding that they enjoy it.  This is, if you will, the John Norman, Gor novels approach and even when I read my first Gor novel as a teenager I realised that this was unpleasant nonsense and that women weren't like this at all.  Nobody wants to be forced.  That said there is a large body of Gor themed fantasies (many by women) on the internet.  

However, these are all stories.  They are not real life.  A crucial difference.  The whole point of fiction is that you can portray things that you would not undertake in real life.  The Lust World is a fantasy and is written to appeal to the fantasies of some of my particular friends, for whom it was originally written.  Sexual fantasies vary from person to person and it is something of a juggling act to fulfill the fantasies of different people.  My own fantasies are easy to spot, as they all feature ladies with lovely, firm bottoms! 

On a lighter note, one of my readers has saved all my Chapter Notes, which detail some of my historical research (I don't always get it right - someone pointed out an error regarding Spitzbergen recently) but I do try to ensure period accuracy on key issues.  I will probably set up the Chapter Notes blog again.