Posted by Lancelot Knight on 23rd Apr 2010

Prodigal Wives by Lizbeth Dusseau

Prolific writer Lizbeth Dusseau has brought together three novellas of the spanking genre.

The common thread in these novellas is a wayward wife who engages in extramarital affairs. In two of the cases, the wife has a yearning for a good spanking, but her husband is unaware of the “special” needs of his wife. But as they say in the spanking field, “All wells that ends well.”

These stories very definitely are a part of the romance genre, as well as focusing on spanking, and as such these will, I think, appeal especially to women. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of lush bottoms to be turned pink, then red for the men to fantasize about.

As always, Dusseau’s special concern is with the relationships of couples, their dynamics and tensions and needs and wants. The spanking scenes, of which there is a variety, always fit into the context of the story, and they are never gratuitous.

The last of the three novellas, “Another Kind of Submission” is especially interesting in that it deals with the issue of how a woman can, at once, be subservient to a dominant, how she can revel in the kinky aspects of spanking as a sexual spark, and yet remain her own person, an individual with self-esteem, self-respect and her own ideas.

For those with a fondness for the punishment of bare bottoms, this book will more than satisfy your craving.