Review: What could make someone abused heal?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2012
I read other reviews and I agree with most of what have been told. Cavan was harshly abused and beaten for a long period of time (since the age of 11). The psychiatrist said to Biton, the Dom, not to have sex with Cavan because he was sexually abused. She said that it could take years before Cavan be healed. But then, does that mean that Cavan could not have affection too, and that he could not have sex for years? For Cavan, sex equalled abuse. By having tender sex with him, is Biton not helping Cavan to change that equation for sex equals love?Probably, Biton shouldn't have taken Cavan into the playroom so soon after the beginning of Cavan's therapy. But again, is it not a way to show Cavan that to be spanked and even whipped could be pleasurable if correctly done?Yeah, that is too short and the ending feels like having been cut with a hard knife to have 2 stories to sell instead of one and then to have much money with the selling of them both. I do not like that playing tricks on me this way. At least, if we were given the choice to buy the 2 stories for a lesser expensive price, we would not have felt tricked.I'm not sure at all that someone sexually abused and severely beaten in the past could feel comfortable being tied, blindfolded, while he knows he will probably be beaten without knowing how nor seeing the strokes coming. It seems to me that, in reality, even with the trust and love that Cavan feels for Biton, Cavan would have imagined horrors behind his blindfold and he would have panicked.I understand very well the other reviewer who said he(she?) lived in an environment where there was abuse. I lived in a very poor area where sexual and other abuse were common. I knew a young man who had lived in seven foster families. I know how difficult it can be to maintain an emotional balance and develop self-confidence in these conditions. But this young man, even abused, did not want to be deprived of sex and even separated from those who seemed to understand him.We are dealing with human beings here. Emotions are not partitioned: sex this side of the brain, emotions the other side, confidence in the middle, and nothing mixes.Sorry, but it does not work like that. So while it seems logical that Biton does not have sex with Cavan, it made me cringe to see the Dom drop Cavan every night in the other room while the young man felt safe only in the big bed and in his master arm.