Choices by Jane Davitt (NC-17)

[rydra_wong]

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: Jack/Daniel (also fantasized Jack/Daniel/Teal'c)
Category: slash, character study, BDSM, established relationship
Warnings: slash, masturbation, BDSM
Author on LJ: janedavitt
Author's Website: Jane's Stories
Link: Choices

Why This Must Be Read:

This could be a PWP - it's certainly hot and raw enough -- except that it's also a sharp character study, all about the complex relationship between sexual fantasy and beloved reality, kink as shame and kink as safety, and Jack's deep need to protect the people he loves, both inside and outside his own head.

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the book rec; I just checked and my local library has it in and I have to return a book tomorrow so... :-)

[rydra_wong]

I'd be fascinated to know what you make it of it; it rang very true for me.

And it's also cool to read a book about sexual fantasy by a psych which is not only "non-judgemental", but argues that we have the fantasies we do, however weird or extreme they may seem, because they serve a good and useful mental function for us.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I got it from the library and started it. Interesting take on it. I'm a little ambivalent about the neat way he ties a fantasy into an event or significant person from childhood; it seems a bit _too_ neat, but he makes some compelling arguments.

[rydra_wong]

Yeah, it's a useful framework for thinking about some of this stuff, I think, even if you don't buy it (or how he applies it) in all cases.