#captives

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It's not just being tied up and tickled you crave.

It is defeat. It is being overpowered. It is humiliation. It is being displayed. It is being exposed. It is being helpless. It is being so far beyond rescue and hope that you KNOW you will not hold out. It is being made to tell all your secrets, and then simply being tortured more. Having that last desperate hope, that cooperating might earn you a respite, utterly dashed by the realisation you are at the (lack of) mercy of someone truly sadistic.

It is the desire to feel the closest thing possible to actually being captured by an enemy who has earned a reputation for ruthlessly torturing its prisoners. To have heard the stories of the sounds that drift from their prison camps, where every single prisoner without exception is taken to be interrogated.

Today, captives and thieves, with Catherine M. Cameron’s Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World and Megan Whalen Turner’s modern classic The Thief. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them. (Alternately, you…