Leash

Leash extends the logic of S&M to its inexorable and startling conclusion darkly and hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to disappear from the chores obligations and emotional vacuity of daily life.No more jobs no more taxes no more checkbook no more bills no more credit cards no more credit no more money no more mortgages no more rent no more savings no more junk mail no more junk no more mail no more phones no more faxes no more busy signals no more computers no more cars no more drivers'' licenses no more traffic lights no more airports no more flying no more tickets no more packing no more luggage no more supermarkets no more health clubs... While her current spends the summer researching public housing in Stockholm a moderately wealthy object-oppressed and terminally hip New York female of a certain age seeks adventure in the sedate dyke bars of lower Manhattan. Finding none she answers a personal ad. She is ordered to put on a blindfold before the first meeting with the woman she knows only as Sir. Not knowing what someone looks like turns out to be freeing as do the escalating constraints that alienate her not just from her former life but from her very conception of who she is. Part Georges Bataille part Fran Leibowitz this is the Story of O told with a self-referentially perverse sense of humor. Leash extends the logic of S&M to its inexorable and startling conclusion darkly and hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to disappear from the chores obligations and emotional vacuity of daily life. First published in 2002.