Pleasure Slave by Ann Jacobs

In the future, life is very different. Alien invaders almost wiped Earth out. A hundred years later, humans have finally reclaimed the planet but the effects are still felt. Everything is under strict control, including sex and procreation, in an effort to eliminate the alien gene from our DNA. So all wildness happens off-world, and on Obsidion anything can be found, including a Pleasure Slave.

After alien invaders were finally expelled, Earth became strict and controlled in an effort to breed pure humans again.

Guy Stone is now a cyborg who can never go home to Earth. He wants a new life on Luna Ten…and a soul mate. A woman who will bow to his domination and revel in the satisfaction as he uses her body to sate his powerful desires.

When Guy sees Cassie, he vows to have her. She’s looking for a high-tech sexbot. He can pass as one—he already has the appropriate piercings. All he needs is the right jewels to enhance them and a shave. When she chooses him at the sex shop, he’s ready to play. The sex is incredible and Cassie is a natural submissive. Now Guy just has to convince her that he’s worth permanent exile from her home, her way of life.

Reader Advisory: This book contains a loving, uninhibited public sex scene.

Publisher's Note: This story was previously published elsewhere under the title Luna Ten: Cassiopeia and has been revised for Ellora’s Cave.

Guy Stone was a pilot of a Star Command Ship and from a prominent family on Earth. Right up until he crashed on Obsidion. The damage to his body was extensive and he would not have survived without the bionic implants that now make him a cyborg. And thus an exile from Earth, who only allow pure humans anymore. But he had visited Luna Ten while a pilot, the new planet set up as an utopian for those wanting to escape the strict Earth strictures. He hopes to relocate to Luna Ten but wants a life-mate before doing so. Now all he has to do is find a mate who can handle his dominating ways.

When he sees Cassie, he knows he has found what he needs. Posing as the sexbot she is looking for is no problem. Finding that she is submissive and has always wanted to be mastered is his dream come true. But how is he going to convince her to give up everything she has ever known and go with him to Luna Ten?

Pleasure Slave didn’t quit do to it for me. I don’t have a problem with BDSM in the right context. And Pleasure Slave is set in a ‘loving’ situation, so that isn’t really a problem. But some of the situations read oddly, and I can’t quit figure out why. And this story gets side tracked by all the body modifications the future culture is obsessed with (we are talking about lots of serious piercings everywhere.) I admit this extreme modification is a first for me, and while not my thing, it didn’t really bother me to read about it in this context. My problem with it is like reading a historical that spends too much time detailing the dresses or architecture fine points. Even when important to the setting, after a certain point it still takes away from the story itself.

Pleasure Slave is very graphic sexually, be aware. The BDSM aspect is too not excessive, (except for the very end). Everything is consensual and wanted, even the public scene mentioned in the warning. The piercings, body modifications are odd and extreme, but part of the culture so they don’t feel dangerous or done to hurt one’s self (comes across as perfectly acceptable, normal. That was well written, even if overboard). And for how short Pleasure Slave is (while novella length, it is only 62 total pages), Ann Jacobs does very well establishing both future tech and different planets. I also liked that she made Guy truly cyborg. He is a real blend of both human and machine and has to learn to live with and function as such.