Eve: Portrait of a Submissive

“When she finally did move in with him, he first had her sign a paper, in the
form of a contract, under which she agreed to become his slave, to surrender
all her rights to him, and to obey him unconditionally; furthermore she agreed
in advance to submit to any punishment he might care to inflict in the event
of disobedience.” In the spring of 1975 Eve Sloan, a twentytwo year old
college dropout, was living in a shabby tenement apartment in New York’s East
Village, workings days as a clerk in a bookstore while her nights were
occupied with casual sex, drugs and writing bad poetry. One day in a Soho
gallery she is accosted by Roger Nettles, a wealthy venture capitalist, with
whom she ends up having sex in her apartment. Roger, an experienced dominant,
quickly sizes her up as a born submissive and proceeds to introduce her to
spanking and bondage, to which she responds enthusiastically. Increasingly
dissatisfied with her aimless existence while experiencing ecstatic pleasures
unknown before, she accepts his offer to come live with him as his slave,
agreeing to accept a life of total dependence in which she has no rights of
her own but an absolute obligation to submit to all of her Master’s desires.
As the livein companion of a wealthy man she is forced to abandon her bohemian
ways and is thrust awkwardly into fashionable society, where she becomes known
as a great beauty. In the course of her threeyear odyssey she encounters a
variety of colorful characters the university professor who teaches history by
day and conducts sadomasochistic orgies by night, a dominatrix doctor, a rock
drummer with a spanking fetish, a fashion photographer she poses for and who
lusts after her, the slave girl with the fragile ego whom she befriends and
tries to protect, and Olympia, Roger’s former lover and now bitter business
rival, who guesses her secret life and uses it to torment her. Eve’s
adventures include being a guest at a dinner party of sadomasochists in which
the maid is caned, participating in a spanking party and in a terrifying orgy
with two other slave girls. But she finds her greatest pleasures when alone
with her Master in his luxury apartment, in his bed, or over his knee, or
bound naked to a cross or a bench in the room he has turned into his own
private dungeon. In time though, even these pleasures are not enough, for what
she craves most of all is to be truly loved by her moody workobsessed Master.
When she comes to feel neglected, she is finally driven to rebel, provoking a
crisis that will end up changing her life forever.