Serena's Sorority Sisters: The Expanded Edition

Introduction to the Expanded Edition

Introduction to the Expanded Edition

“s*x isn’t funny. Frustration is funny.”

Mike Pondsmith, Teenagers From Outer Space

Welcome to the Expanded Edition of Serena’s Sorority Sisters. This edition contains over 60,000 words, up from just under 41,000 in the original book, mostly of additional erotica I’ve written over the years, ranging from short scenes to short stories. For those of you who’ve read earlier versions, I hope the new material will give you new fantasies and lots of pleasure.

No orgasms, though. You know the rules.

As far back as I can remember, I’ve had fantasies about being tickled and teased by sexy women, usually wearing some kind of costume. There wasn’t a lot of porn published about that fetish, but occasionally I’d find a two or three page scene hot enough to justify buying an entire porn novel. When Penthouse (and later Penthouse Variations) started publishing short fantasies masquerading as reader letters, I checked out each issue in hopes of finding something that hit my hot buttons. I amassed a pretty good file folder worth of stuff over many years, but basically I discovered that if I wanted my sort of porn, I would just have to write it myself.

Penthouse Variations was my first target, and I sold my first story to them for the February 1993 issue: “The Black Satin Teddy,” credited to “Robert Oberbeck.” (They made up the pseudonyms. It was a fantasy based on an actual lingerie party I attended with my then-girlfriend and later wife. I followed up with two more sales, “My Scheherezade,” heavily edited to remove most of the bondage, and “Lust in Disguise,” about an encounter that followed a masquerade ball at a science fiction convention. Like “The Black Satin Teddy,” both stories drew inspiration from real life, but they quickly moved into fantasy territory.

Under Dian Hanson’s editorship, Leg Show was publishing some tease-related fantasies, and in the December 1994 issue she published my “Sorority Slave,” a tease and denial fantasy, again heavily edited to remove bondage.

Somewhere around that time, I was in a bookstore at O’Hare Airport when I discovered Titian Beresford’s Cinderella, published by Masquerade Books, and quickly snapped up Beresford’s other books, Judith Boston and Nina Foxton. His books inspired me to try my hand at a novel of my own. Using Judith Boston as a model, I began writing a schoolgirl sorority teasing fantasy, and in 1996 Masquerade Books published it as Tabitha’s Tease. Mindful of Elmore Leonard’s advice to “leave out the parts people don’t read,” I set myself a goal to put s*x on every page, avoiding those transition scenes porn readers skip anyway.

Tabitha’s Tease was my first novel, and I’ve been gratified that more than twenty years later the book is still being read and evidently enjoyed. I’ve very much enjoyed the letters people have sent me about it over the years. I set out to write a sequel, Tabitha’s Tickle, and experimented with multiple characters and changing points of view. It was published in 1997, and in expanded form is the book you hold in your hands.

Both Tabitha novels are pure fantasy, and my wife suggested I write something more relationship oriented. That turned into a science fiction b**m romance novel, The Capture of Archer Cordell and its sequel The Taming of Archer Cordell. Not only is there s*x on every page, there’s also a thriller plot.

The Tabitha books went out of print, but it would be a number of years before the publishing rights reverted to me. When I discovered the tease-and-denial and male tickling sites on the web, I was amazed to discover how many people knew my books, and how much demand still existed. I saw used copies of the Tabitha books being sold for anywhere from $40 to $240, which is a testament to how rare professional f/m teasing and tickling erotica is.

Once publishing rights reverted to me, I immediately asked Pink Flamingo if they’d be interested in a reissue. A consolidated Tabitha’s Tease/Tabitha’s Tickle volume contained two new chapters.

Although I very much enjoyed writing porn, it didn’t pay well enough, and with the publishing market drying up, I turned to other work, both mainstream fiction and lots and lots of nonfiction, and that became my full-time job shortly after the turn of the century. But I still kept up my enthusiasm for the topic and was delighted how much really hot stuff I could find online!

Sometime in the early years of the 21st century, I discovered the Indecisive Yahoo Group for tease and denial image captioning (subsequently a paysite, though that no longer exists). I was blown away by the brilliance and originality of one of their contributors, Naamaire, and was inspired to do my own. I made several friends in that community, including both Naamaire and Indy (from “indecisive” as he could never think of a good porn nom de plume).

I filled some 27 Yahoo groups with over 3,000 captioned images in what was for me a major burst of creativity and artistic experimentation. There were truly awful misjudgments and experiments that went spectacularly flat, but as I look back over what I did, some of them were really quite good.

I was feeling that I’d said pretty much all I had to say with captions when Yahoo suddenly eliminated my identity and overnight shut down all my groups. I still don’t know what it is I was supposed to have done; they never checked to see if I had my own side to the story. I was devastated, as some of what I had stored there I didn’t have in my own files, and found myself with almost no remaining enthusiasm for image captioning. On top of that, changes in 2257 law and copyright enforcement made the risk unacceptable, and the captioning community moved, for the most part, behind closed doors. Indy was able to salvage a little of my classic work by buying legal rights to use the images. I did a few new pieces for him as well. Some of them are available on my Tumblr at https://www.tumblr.com/blogobinwilde.

After a number of years with Pink Flamingo, the books went out of print once again, and I reissued them as ebooks, adding a new volume, Serena’s Sorority Sisters. Pink Flamingo, now under new management, expressed an interest in having the books back, so I’ve prepared these expanded editions. I’m delighted to be back with Pink Flamingo, and hope you enjoy your visit to the erotic worlds of Cinetease and Wilde Things.

Cheers, Robin Wilde