Experience is the Best Teacher : Xlibris : 9781514425152 : 1514425157 : 19 Dec 2015 : After many years as a modest, unpretentious wife, at age thirty-seven Karen Black began a journey of self-discovery at her husband's company retreat that took her into the shadowy, secretive realm of erotic power exchange: dominance and submission, bondage and discipline, and the transformation of sensual pain into previously unimaginable ecstasy. Freed of inhibitions through her voluntary surrender to the control of Steven, a man less than half her age, Karen's latent sexuality and saucy personality blossomed. As she bonded more strongly with her master, Karen accepted, and mostly enjoyed, her consensual participation in a variety of sexual and sadomasochistic activities. Four years after that retreat, Karen and Steven met Robert, an older dominant, and she was both challenged and exhilarated in a private session with him. Six months later, Steven faced major life decisions, and he sent Karen to li