A Very Special Prison

In Erich von G?'s art, desire and innocence combine with dominance and submission to ignite in a fireburst of explicit, almost continuous, sexual activity. A Very Special Prison contains all the hallmarks of von G?'s creative genius: a sensitive, sensual line alive with delicate washes of watercolour, achieving with pen and brush what so many can never capture on film - a unique world where fantasy comes close - but never too close - to reality.

'Not exactly politically correct - but great illustration!' - Oliver Maitland

In A Very Special Prison, Erich von G? brings to life a highly-charged erotic drama of sexual slavery through the powerful medium of an exquisitely sensual pen. The 'very special' and 'experimental' institution that the innocent young heroine finds herself in is an extraordinary construct of von G?'s imagination.

The tables are turned...

Beautiful, nubile Emma McAlistair is subjected to sexual indignity and humiliation at every turn. But while her mind is appalled by this string of sexual outrages against her person, her young, lusty body responds in an amusingly treacherous way. She begins to enjoy what is happening to her. Eventually her mind and body conspire to turn the tables on her gaolers by completely accepting her fate and revelling in her new, submissive status. Held somewhere between the worlds of the Marquis de Sade's Justine and Pauline R?e's L'Histoire d'O (The Story of O), von G?'s heroine realises that only by accepting her situation can she be her own woman and beat the system at its own game. As Simone de Beauvoir has said, 'A person who is whipped or penetrated by another may be the other's master as well as his slave.' Emma McAlistair's tale is a strange, yet liberating, allegory for our own time: by confronting and comprehending the demons of lust that lurk, ever more suppressed in this age of sexual sanitising, deep in our breasts, can we begin to enjoy our own sexuality. We deny them at our peril.

In the depths of this Very Special Prison, von G?'s luscious blonde heroine and a stable of equally beautiful inmates revel in their almost ritual suffering, torture and sexual humiliation. The artist's pen and ink work is masterly, portraying his subjects' pleasure and anguish with extraordinary sensitivity and surprising tenderness. In the rest of Europe and America, Erich von G?'s art is highly prized by collectors and aficionados of the genre; until now the only way of obtaining his work in this country was to buy it abroad.

BDSM, fetish, torture, sadism, masochism and bondage

Erotic Review Books has thought long and hard about introducing a A Very Special Prison to its members: some may regard it as a debased art form, especially if they perceive the subject matter depicted as inimical. However we believe that our members are a liberal lot, and is something is not exactly to their taste, then they will not begrudge its enjoyment by others. And to us is but another form (and a glorious one at that!) of illustration. And illustration, we feel, is a more than acceptable form of art.

Please don't buy this book - unless...

So please be warned: do NOT order this book if you have any reservations about the philosophy and investigation of sexual enjoyment through sado-masochism, spanking and sexual torture; nor is it a book for those who feel that the medium of the comic strip is an impoverished or immature art form.