RuthMadison, Author at Ruth Madison

Fetish Map

I ran across this on another blog and found it really fascinating. I wonder if everyone is represented on here? Someone must have put a lot of work into this. There’s so many different sort of kinks out there. It makes me wonder if no one really gets to adulthood without at least one odd sexual connection. I haven’t spoken about this here before, but devness is not the only “kink” that I have. Devoteeism to me is not really a fetish. Or at least my relationship to it is not a fetish one. Just the fact that I date disabled men in real life and that I value them as human beings beyond just how their bodies turn me on makes it not a classic fetish. I do have a real fetish, though. It’s related but also distinctly different and it sits...

Posted by RuthMadison on Feb 13, 2012 in Sexuality | 2 comments

Friday Excerpt: From a new book collection

Paradevo.net is working on putting out a second collection of short stories. The first, Paradox, is 400 pages from a variety of dev authors (and it just made its debut on Kindle, where it is free until tomorrow!) I’ve submitted a story called Faster for the second collection. It will not be appearing anywhere else. Here is an excerpt from it… In the next weeks, my family wanted to talk about it endlessly. Mom, dad, and Melanie wanted to change what had happened with the spell of words. Eric’s neck was broken. Just one simple moment, a freak accident, and his body was damaged beyond any repair. A sunny day and a person out of control of a golf cart and Eric’s life was as different as it was possible to be. I pretended I didn’t care so...

Posted by RuthMadison on Feb 10, 2012 in Friday Excerpt | 0 comments

Devotee and Non-Disabled Partner

There are many devotees in relationships with partners who are not disabled (and farther down I’ll be talking about the different ways this happens). Does that make them no longer devotees? Not at all. This can be a tricky concept, because I know I had trouble with it when applied to a situation with some parallels to this one: bisexuality. I have a friend who is bisexual and she is now married to a man. It was difficult at first for me to understand that her picking a man didn’t mean that she had chosen to be straight and that her bi-ness was now gone or even effectively gone. She is bisexual and she always will be. I only started to understand that when I looked at my own situation. I’ve dated both disabled and non-disabled men. A fairly even...

Posted by RuthMadison on Feb 2, 2012 in Disability Rights, Sexuality | 15 comments

Friday Excerpt – A short story in progress

This month I’ve been working on short stories, looking to get a collection together for a new Dev Dreams edition. This one will have more explicit stories. As well as being part of the collection, the stories are going to be available individually as well (and a couple of them already are). This is one I’m working on and hope to have finished very soon. It’s a little different from my usual fare. This one has a blind hero. Here is a brief excerpt: ### Word Count: 370### When I like a guy, I have one trick up my sleeve. The only thing I know to do to get his attention. I invite him to hang out at my place to watch a movie. I sit on the couch next to him and I hope for the best. This has never led to something before, but I keep thinking that...

Posted by RuthMadison on Jan 27, 2012 in Friday Excerpt | 0 comments