Before transitioning to a man, Patrick Califia, writing as Pat Califia, established a solid career as a lesbian writer of erotica, poetry, essays, sex advice, and more.
His style and scope may have changed since then, but back in the day, his stories treated lesbian BDSM with well-drawn characters with complex needs unique to themselves and often difficult to fulfill for believable and deeply personal reasons.
These highly erotic character and relationship studies are delivered with credible plots, a propulsive rhythm and an ear for the apt phrase that drives them along with the urgency of a good hard-boiled thriller, which somehow lends the complex characters a trace of being larger than life.
The sexual action is vivid, creative and plentiful. Much of it begins in lesbian BDSM underground parties, bars, dungeons and the like and moves on to private spaces, where it can get more extreme, but never cross the line to the impossible. Califia has other story collections and at least one novel available. They are all worth more than a single read.
Purchase Melting Point – Pat Califia