The Control Book

Author: Peter Masters

Published: July, 2009

ISBN: 1442173866

Pages: 200

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Honorable Mention in NLA-I 2008 Writing Awards

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The Control Book is about the fine art of taking control of your partner. It's about the processes involved, about taking control, using control, about ensuring that you have control, and---importantly---about giving control back once you are done with it.

The book discusses how this works---the psychology of it---and looks at what can go right, and at what can go wrong and how to fix it.

It considers the role of authority in the equation, and looks at how to manage the control you have over someone so that it is both effective and rewarding for you both.

In the table of contents below, some of the entries are highlighted. These are links to extracts of the book. In addition, you can find an extract from the book in the article on consent.

Table of contents

1. Introduction 1.1. What do you mean by dominance & submission? 1.2. Conscious, subconscious and unconscious 1.3. Predispositions 1.4. Evolution 2. Transfer of control 2.1. The process 2.2. Consolidating control 2.3. Losing control 2.4. Reward and encouragement 2.5. Giving back control 2.6. Focus of control 2.7. Safewords 2.8. Control-taking and privacy 3. Communication 3.1. Division of labour 3.2. Submissive logic 3.3. Person-to-person 3.4. Three

4. Management 4.1. Two different types of control 4.2. Planning and management 4.3. Ritual 4.4. Structure 4.5. Ownership 4.6. Delegation 5. Discussion topics 5.1. Closure 5.2. Magic 5.3. Satiation 5.4. Humour 5.5. Rhythm 5.6. Feeling controlled 5.7. Consequences of orders 5.8. Difference between a slave and a submissive 5.9. Cookbook dominance 5.10. Less than open 5.11. What place love? 5.12. Hard and soft limits 6. Footnotes