Anne Bishop's "Black Jewels" series

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    Anyone looking for a sword-and-sorcery story might want to take a look at the work of Anne Bishop, particularly her "Black Jewels" novels. Its a full-fledged fantasy series, with magic spells, other worlds to visit, and quite a few supernatural creatures. It starts with Daughter of the Blood:

    What distinguishes the series from all of the other fantasy titles out there is the blatant femdom dynamic of the setting. The magic-using men of the setting are hardwired to seek out a female wizard, to willingly serve and obey her. And there's an elaborate set of social (and magical) checks-and-balances to insure the men serve willing, and the women take care of them (and rule benevolently).

    Of course, every fantasy novel needs things to go haywire, and the "Black Jewels" setting is no exception. When the first novel begins, an evil female conspiracy is close to controlling the entire world. . . and being evil, they want to control men they have no right to, and damn the rules.

    To that end, they unleashed a number of nasty spells and artifacts, such as drugs that induce long-term arousal/erections while denying a man any orgasm. But the signature (and most common) magical item is the Ring of Obedience - an enchanted cock ring that can impose chastity, inflict pain, and sense sexual arousal. . . and which castrates him if he tries to remove it. A Ringed male is considered little more than a sex slave, and generally treated as such. Both the male lead of the original series and the Invisible Ring spin-off start out Ringed, along with quite a few others.

    One catch, though - the author seems to have deliberately tried to get boycotted, picking deliberately inflammatory names for characters and places. So one character is named Satan, another's Lucifer, people often visit Hell. There's also a fair amount of sexual abuse (although the abusers tend to die horribly), so the series may not be for everyone
     
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