Zero Tolerance A Contemporary Bdsm Novel

A Contemporary BDSM Age Gap Office Romance Novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Lynn Burke As the owner of Elite Escorts, I have unlimited access to subs who crave domination without emotional ties. I never expected the business to make me a wealthy man. But I’ll be honest. Seeing all my friends settle down has made me realize something is missing from my life. My new secretary Jasmine is a librarian fantasy come to life. Her innocence calls to the sadist in me and every dark desire I have. But there’s only one problem. She can’t tolerate physical contact. Anywhere—at any time. Psychological baggage from her childhood allows for friendship in the office but hinders a normal relationship. And the type I yearn for? Hopeless. However, when I offer myself to her to practice physical touch, I get a glimpse of what we could be. But her past and present collide, threatening the fragile connection we’ve built. Will the trust I’ve earned be enough to give her the courage to take another step forward? Or will submission to her wounds keep her from ever calling me Sir? *Zero Tolerance is the 5th book in the Elite Escorts Series. See author page for trigger warnings. ** HEA guaranteed, this age gap steamy romance begins because a rich, Dom playboy falls for a virgin heroine who has touch issues from past trauma. Toss in a little office flirting, sensual healing, and BDSM for extra spice! Perfect for readers who enjoy hurting heroines and protective, swoon-worthy heroes who will go the extra mile to help them find healing. If you enjoy books by, Harley Larous, Miranda Silver, Gemma Weir, Ellis O. Day, Jude West, Pepper North, Livia Grant, Shane Starrett, & Jennifer Beane, download First Time today!

A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder Woman comics, the pioneering prose of Samuel Delany and James Tiptree, and the television shows Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse.

This book provides a sobering look at modern-day slavery—which includes sex trafficking, domestic servitude, and other forms of forced labor—and documents the development of the modern anti-slavery movement, from grassroots activism to the passage of anti-slavery laws. Slavery was formally abolished across most of the world by the end of the 19th century, but it continues to lurk in the shadows of the modern world. As with slavery of yesteryear, modern slavery hinges on the exploitation of vulnerable populations—and especially women and children. The result is the same as in bygone centuries, when slavery was practiced in the open: unimaginable misery for those exploited and financial gain for the exploiter. Modern Slavery: A Documentary and Reference Guide is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, academics, policymakers, community leaders, and others who want to learn about modern-day slavery. Covering forms of modern slavery that include sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and domestic servitude, the book provides a complete examination of the modern-day anti-slavery movement. Its coverage includes historical antecedents, the various and sometimes opposing schools of thought about how to combat modern slavery, and the legislative processes that united them and resulted in a groundbreaking approach to combating human trafficking. The book uses primary source material, including survivor stories, witness testimony, case law, and other materials to discuss the nature and scope of modern-day slavery, the grassroots movement to stop it, and U.S. leadership in the international arena. Examples of primary source material include the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (2005); remarks and statements from Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Obama on human trafficking and modern slavery; the United Nations' Office of Drugs and Crime report, A Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2009); excerpts from the U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report, including harrowing victims stories from around the world (2013 and 2014); and excerpts from 2015 Senate hearings, including testimony from Holly Austin Smith, trafficking survivor, and from Malika Saada Saar, Human Rights Project for Girls.

`For those who still believe that politics is normally, naturally, about economics, Rob Singh has gathered the evidence and dialed the wake-up call: seven major instances of an ongoing culture war meet a common analytic framework here in a lively and informative fashion' - Byron E Shafer, University of Wisconsin

A richly illustrated history of self-taught artists and how they changed American art Artists without formal training, who learned from family, community, and personal journeys, have long been a presence in American art. But it wasn’t until the 1980s, with the help of trailblazing advocates, that the collective force of their creative vision and bold self-definition permanently changed the mainstream art world. In We Are Made of Stories, Leslie Umberger traces the rise of self-taught artists in the twentieth century and examines how, despite wide-ranging societal, racial, and gender-based obstacles, they redefined who could be rightfully seen as an artist and revealed a much more diverse community of American makers. Lavishly illustrated throughout, We Are Made of Stories features more than one hundred drawings, paintings, and sculptures, ranging from the narrative to the abstract, by forty-three artists—including James Castle, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Howard Finster, Bessie Harvey, Dan Miller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, the Philadelphia Wireman, Nellie Mae Rowe, Judith Scott, and Bill Traylor. The book centralizes the personal stories behind the art, and explores enduring themes, including self-definition, cultural heritage, struggle and joy, and inequity and achievement. At the same time, it offers a sweeping history of self-taught artists, the critical debates surrounding their art, and how museums have gradually diversified their collections across lines of race, gender, class, and ability. Recasting American art history to embrace artists who have been excluded for too long, We Are Made of Stories vividly captures the power of art to show us the world through the eyes of another. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC July 1, 2022–March 26, 2023

Discover you dark side… They say I have a dark side. They aren’t wrong. They say I am the devil. They aren’t wrong. As the owner of an exclusive BDSM club, Decadent Sins, Master Zeus was respected and loved by many. As The Slayer, the Boss of the National Crime Syndicate, Kings, Inc, Torin Caruso elicited terror in most. But never the twain had met … and for as long as he had control over the double lives he lived … they never would. To date, he’d kept his true identity from those who vied to end the reign of the most feared Crime Lord. …Until she arrived at the club. Dakota Harris, a snoopy FBI Agent, who stuck her snippy little nose in where it didn’t belong. He’d be damned if a woman destroyed the secret he’d worked so hard to keep. Before she realized her mistake and could retreat, he’d strung her up and taught her a lesson she’d never forget. Now, all he had to do was to keep her under his Dominant spell to ensure she kept her pouty mouth shut. Except, he’d come to find her a conundrum; was she a sly serpent or a sensual submissive? Had the mighty Master of Decadent Sins finally met his match? Editor’s Note: Hot! Hot! Hot! This is one of those “this is so hot, I can’t put it down but I also need a cold shower to keep from combusting” type of reads! Torin is fire! Dakota is his perfect match … and their chemistry is … oh, just divine. Mix in some betrayal, some dark secrets, and Dominant Nature will surely dominate you until you’ve read from cover to cover and left you in a puddle on the floor. Keywords: Book series, Love books, Love stories, Romantic novels, Sexually romantic books, Contemporary romance, Family saga, Blue Collar, Sexy, Family love, Strong heroine, Captivating romance, Loyalty, Protect, Kissing books, Steamy romance, Contemporary, Romance series, Long series, Long romance series, Hot, Hot romance, Sparks, Ebook, Racy, Racy Books, Linzi Basset, Suspense romance, Action scene romance, Hot guy, Love, Romance, Alpha Romance, Mafia, Mafia romance, Dominant Alpha Male, Action and adventure romance, Organized Crime, dark romance

In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that arguably came to subsume the ideals of freedom, opportunity, and equality, and that eventually embodied an unspoken consensus about what constitutes the good society in a postmodern setting. This was the ideal of choice, broadly understood as the proposition that the good society provides individuals with the power to shape the contours of their lives in ways that suit their personal interests, idiosyncrasies, and tastes. By the closing decades of the century, Americans were widely agreed that theirs was--or at least should be--the land of choice. In A Destiny of Choice?, David Blanke and David Steigerwald bring together important scholarship on the tension between two leading interpretations of modern American consumer culture. That modern consumerism reflects the social, cultural, economic, and political changes that accompanied the country's transition from a local, producer economy dominated by limited choices and restricted credit to a national consumer marketplace based on the individual selection of mass-produced, mass-advertised, and mass-distributed goods. This debate is central to the economic difficulties seen in the United States today.

A 2001 volume of essays about the relationship between past and present in Irish society.