No Pain, No Gain

Full of saucy short stories, this collection revolves around the narrator's search for satisfaction through sexual submission. The pseudonymous author is a film-industry insider who has spent his own life questing after strong and beautiful women who will dominate and hurt him—sometimes for money, but mostly for love. Inspired by the results of his search, this collection turns the usual male memoir of sexual conquests upside-down and inside-out.