Fifty Shades of Leather: Corbin Milk in the BDSM World
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. The success of the best-selling novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” has surprised a lot of people, and, while I’ve not read it myself, I assume it plays upon the occasional fantasies many people have about kinky sex. In 2005 I had the lead in a community theater production of the play “Deathtrap” and the script called for the living room (the only set) to be decorated with instruments of torture. As is happened I have a friend who is a straight woman, called “Mistress Athena” in the leather world, and she was kind enough to loan the theater some whips and metal restraints for use as wall hangings. Through her I came to learn a good deal about the leather world, which is very different from what those not part of it believe. Mata Hari That knowledge came in handy when I was writing my latest novel (not yet published, but soon) called “Corbin Milk.” The plot concerns a gay CIA agent, a handsome bodybuilder, who the CIA sends on assignments where gay intrigues give him ac