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Dorothy Freed has been involved in the BDSM scene since the 1970s. In this memoir she writes openly, nostalgically, and lyrically about exploring her sexuality, including her experiences as a submissive and a Domme in a decades-long committed D/s relationship.
This collection of interlinked vignettes gives the reader a front row seat to her diverse kinky adventures, providing sexually charged anecdotes that shed light on BDSM and her observations and reflections about the lifestyle. It is laced with humor, warmth, and rich descriptions of San Francisco and The Scene as it progressed over many years. It’s a celebration that proves that you’re never too old for passion.
Dorothy Freed is the also author of Perfect Strangers, A Memoir of the Swinging 70’s. The story begins in upstate New York and transports Dorothy to San Francisco. Perfect Strangers is a upbeat, tongue-in-cheek account of being sexually liberated, personally empowered, and of starting over. Foreword by Carol Queen, PH.D.
In addition to memoir, Dorothy Freed is also the author of numerous erotic short stories. Her genre ranges from BDSM to unabashed female sexuality, from the perspective of being in her 70’s. She has been published in a variety of anthologies such as those edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Rose Caraway and Joan Price.
Praise for Life After Promiscuity:
“Life After Promiscuity: A BDSM Love Story” is jaw-dropping from one true-life adventurous scene to the next. An inspiration, D finds real love in her Sir and Dom for life, and together, they find sexual liberation by way of honoring and fulfilling each other’s erotic desires in the sex clubs of San Francisco’s SM scene in the ’70s & ’80s, and today!
— Rose Caraway, Host of The Kiss Me Quick’s Erotic Podcast.
Since reading Dorothy Freed’s first memoir, Perfect Strangers, I have always wondered how she evolved from an adventurous but not-especially-kinky sexual explorer into a BDSM maven and writer of many excellent erotic stories. This book answers all my questions. A series of vignettes that detail the thrilling sexual development of her lifelong relationship with her Sir, Life After Promiscuity is part memoir, part sizzling erotica, and a fascinating look at a lifetime of love, devotion, and kink.
–LN Bey, author of the erotic novel Blue. LN’s short stories have been published in No Safewords 2, Erotic Teasers, Best Bondage Erotica 2015, and other anthologies.
This interconnected series of stories, each a hot BDSM scene in its own right, celebrates a decades-long love affair. Cum for the erotica, stay for the love. Everyone can only hope to stay as hot as this couple.
–Lynx Canon, founder of Dirty Old Women and author of The Alien Captives Trilogy.
In Life after Promiscuity, memoirist Dorothy Freed gives us a compelling sequel to her first book, A Perfect Stranger. In the earlier volume Freed discovered her erotic power while a single mother in 1970s San Francisco. In this volume, love and lust are woven fine. The new memoir begins when Freed awakens to kink and meets the lover who later becomes her husband. The couple explore their mutual passion for BDSM during many happy years together. The author takes us on a sensual tour of clubs and private parties, right up to the couple’s seventh decade.
These erotic stories capture the sights and sounds of the Bay Area in the late twentieth century and remind us that passion is our birthright throughout our lives.
–Stella Fosse, author of Aphrodite’s Pen, The Erotic Pandemic Ball, and Brilliant Charming Bastard
This true-life account offers in glorious abundance what all-too-many fictionalized portrayals of the BDSM lifestyle lack: genuine emotion, authentic eroticism, and real, honest-to-goodness joy! Unblinking, honest, and engagingly positive in tone, Freed’s down-to-earth style with its occasional flash of self-effacing humor enlightens as satisfyingly as it entertains. Life After Promiscuity brings BDSM out of the dark subbasement of taboo, demystifying a vibrant world that has too often been willfully misunderstood or shamefully misrepresented in popular culture.
–Terrance Aldon Shaw (author of The Seven Seductions)
In Life after Promiscuity, Dorothy Freed has given us a gift we didn’t know we were begging for! She has favored us with a sensational true-life love story, divided into two dozen tasty morsels. Her stories are not only delicious, but spicy enough to make our eyes, and assorted other parts wet. Hot and sweet! Honest and sensual. My stereotypes were expertly whipped into submission! –Gene Clements, Author
Praise for Perfect Strangers:
“Dorothy Freed walks readers through the swinging 70’s, showing the very personal impact of the sexual revolution on her life as she goes from wife to erotic explorer.”
—Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Vol’s, 1-3 and over 60 other erotica anthologies.
“Perfect Strangers: A Memoir Of The Swinging Seventies, a decidedly sex positive memoir, takes the reader along for the ride as newly divorced Dorothy Freed undertakes an erotic journey into the real contours of the sexual revolution, seeking to discover her pathway to orgasm. Her story demonstrates just how hot the process of writing oneself whole can be.”
—Jen Cross, founder /facilitator, and author of Writing Ourselves Whole, co-editor of Sex Still Spoken Here, and co-facilitator of the Erotic Reading Circle.
PERFECT STRANGERS spotlights the sensitive issue of female sexual satisfaction. My adventures in the Land of Oz—otherwise known as mid-70s San Francisco—take place in an era when casual sex seemed as easy as a handshake; but for a woman to achieve orgasm, vaginal or otherwise—well, good luck with that!
My sex-positive tale touches on issues pertinent to countless women. My target audience is every woman who has ever faked an orgasm, every woman who has divorced, dated and struggled to start over, and every woman who has dared to live out a sexual fantasy—or dreamed of doing so. Available on Amazon.com
Dorothy Freed 