Race Play in the era of Political Correctness

” …Race play is being enjoyed in the privacy of bedrooms and publicly at BDSM parties, and it’s far from just black and white. It also includes “playing out” Nazi interrogations of Jews or Latino-on-black racism, and the players can be of any racial background and paired up in a number of ways (including a black man calling his black girlfriend a “nigger bitch”). White master seeking black slave, however, seems the more popular of the combinations. Race play is considered on the edge of edgy sex, but workshops on the subject are becoming standard fare at kinky conferences as people like (Mollena) Williams become comfortable with publicly speaking about it. Like any practice making its way into public conversations, the workshops include everything from personal testimonials to theories on why people of color are getting aroused by what some would see as just racism. Like any controversial sexual activity, race play has its critics. In May 2004, the title of a workshop at a BDSM conference had to be changed after protest over the original name, “Nigger Play: Free at Last.”  Mollena Williams herself has been the subject of several e-mails from people of color who, while enjoying BDSM themselves, accuse her of self-hate and recommend she enter therapy.”

Here at Talbot Press we have published several erotic eBooks by Leslie Parma that dealt with race play. They have proved to be among our most popular offerings in our library of hard-core BDSM humiliation books. Recently we had another writer of erotica, a multi-racial woman in the United Kingdom who is fascinated by ‘race play’, join our authors. Her name is Caramel Rose and we just published her first offering for Talbot Press: Tanya’s Descent into Depravity. It’s a very edgy story…

Tanya, a beautiful black lawyer in London, is obsessed with edgy fantasies about race play. Online, she dabbles in submissive relationships but yearns for more. Then she meets Max who takes her on a journey that allows her to live out her deepest, darkest and most degraded fantasies. He is older, white and fully into scenes to train a black woman to experience what it is like to be a degraded slave. He becomes her Dom and introduces Tanya to caning, breast torture and every sex act imaginable; in the process turning her into a compliant, wet sex puppet.

This is an extreme, erotic novella and it’s sure to create some controversy. We don’t know what to say about race play personally… other than in the privacy of one’s own bedroom anything is fair play among consenting adults. People are entitled in a ‘free’ society to enjoy their private sex lives without the community or the government censoring them. If they enjoy edgy ‘transgressive’ sex… then so be it! Live and let live. This is how we see the issue.

… Richard [Publisher] 2/16/16