Victor Rogano

'The Desire to Dominate' is subtitled: 'Insight into those who desire to be sexually dominated and those who dominate …', and this is more-or-less what Rogano's book does, although the 'insight' is less analytical than descriptive of the range of techniques devised by the inventive human race for the imposing of will on others. As with many of the books issued by Canova Press in the increasingly premissive opening years of the 1970s, Rogano's book appealed to a mass market hungry for erotic titllation, and whatever the higher ideals its presentation might have suggested, this was surely intended. The book is largely a historical description, beginning with the cruelties of slave systems, from Greek and Roman onwards and progressing through the more enlightened eras of Victorian life and the present day, in which the domination of others was more constrained by mercy. Domination practices of secret societies and the Church are considered, and some attention is paid to the modern trend in which the restrained use of pain is used as an adjunct to erotic activities, principally as a means of stimulation in the approach to more standard activity. These days there is much less use for books such as this, because stimulus and arousal are now pervasive in society, but for those who enjoy descriptions of extremes in their erotica, there will stll be an interest. The book feeds this interest well.… (plus d'informations)