CK Bookshelf

Pull up a chair, make yourself a cup of coffee and grab a book off the shelf to learn more about BDSM and related topics. You can order the books easily by copying the title of the book and pasting it into the search box at the bottom of the page. Want to suggest a book for the shelf? Email our webslave.

The Loving Dominant

John Warren, known as “Mentor” to the many who have read his books or hearkened to his sage advice at his workshops and gatherings, brought his decades of BDSM experience to his classic manual The Loving Dominant. Out of print for several years, this classic is now available once again, now in a revised and updated second edition in a quality trade binding.

	< Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun S/M Lovemaking
		SM101: A Realistic Introduction > Since the early '90s, this underground classic has taught the fundamentals of safe, exciting SM to tens of thousands of people of all genders and orientations.

The Topping Book

This book is an enjoyable read not only because of their light and at times humorous approach, but also because of the illustrations, and their use of anecdotes to bring home a point. Sections include your rights and responsibilities as a Top, a Top Bill of Rights (yeah!), How to get into 'Top mode,' what to do when a scene goes wrong, and most importantly, where to find bottoms!!

The Bottoming Book

Great information about your 'rights' as a sub, negotiating scenes and role play, different kind of scenes and the issues that may come up, and finding a Top.

Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism. BDSM is not something that you just dive into. You need to learn how to do it first. Philip and Molly have written a wonderful book that will teach you how to do just that. The book is comprehensively organized and has a nice sense of humor. It is also more illustrated than the other SM books.

Butterflies of the Night: Mama-Sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve

Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art
In remarkable detail, and with the cooperation of geisha in Kyoto and Tokyo, this beautiful book captures the private world of the geisha, revealing her in her role as a human work of art--the perfect woman artistically, conversationally, and erotically. 95 color photos