Karen : Chapters 1-7 
Reviewed by Spiros Bousbouras
http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/karen/domwife01.txt and sequels

My rating system:
* = Forget about it !   ** = Fair    *** = Good     **** = Very good
***** = Read it now !!

This story gets a ****1/2

An important subgenre of female dominance is domestic female dominance
i.e.  dominance within the marriage.There was even a magazine called WHAP
exclusively devoted to that particular genre which unfortunately has
ceased being published about a year ago.Naturally this website has
several stories of this kind.Of all that I have read the personal story
of Karen is the best.Before going into the particulars of this story a
few general comments:  Stories of dominance can be divided into stories
of physical or psychological dominance.In the previous story I reviewed 
( "The artist" ) there was only physical dominance.The dominating ladies
were content with their absolute physical superiority over the male which
allowed them to treat him pretty much as an inanimate object therefore
were not interested into bringing about a change to his mentality.
Hopefully at some point in the future I will review the "Being Nadia's
husband story" ( Miscellaneous stories , part 3 ) where from the
beginning we have psychological dominance.The man feels he has to obey
the woman without having being defeated first in some physical
confrontation.  Finally we come to the present story where we have a
mixed kind of dominance.

In the first two years of the marriage between Karen and Mike it is the
male who has the upper hand.Not that either one of them is thinking in
terms of dominance and submission it's just that Karen feels that this is
the natural order of things.  ( Karen writes in the first person and does
not give us many insights into her husband's point of view. ) A friendly
disagreement caused by a TV show ( the title is not mentioned but we can
guess easily enough that it is "Pacific Blue" ) leads to their first
wrestling match.And , surprise surprise , the woman thoroughly defeats
the man.Unlike many other stories on this website we are given a rational
explanation for this result:The man , although taller and heavier , is a
couch potato while the woman has exercised systematically ever since her
teenage years.

It is during the description of this first encounter that we see a lot of
the elements which make this a great story.First Karen is a natural born
dominatrix if there is such a thing.She doesn't know why yet but she gets
immense sexual pleasure out of defeating her husband.She is also an
expert into teasing and taunting him without making any conscious effort
towards that effect.It just comes natural to her.But a lot of this would
have been lost if Karen didn't have another talent which is of much more
direct concern to the reader:She is great at describing the psychological
play involved.She presents so well her emotions , her thoughts , her
bodily reactions that it's as if we have entered her body and live the
whole experience ourselves.She also presents to some extent her husband's
emotions but she places more weight on her own than on his.There's nothing
wrong with such a choice. After all she's calling the shots ! And she
manages to keep such a great balance between describing the action and the
psychology.This is achieved by entering the psychological descriptions 
at places when the action has slowed down , for example when the male 
has been properly immobilized.

In the second chapter a third person appears.It is Lisa , a friend of
Karen's and a psychologist.Karen goes to her for advice trying to
understand why she got so aroused by the whole incident.In the "Artist"
review I pointed out to the fact that we had two kinds of domination
direct and indirect.The same thing happens here where Karen's husband is
essentially dominated by two women , directly by his wife and indirectly
by Lisa , although , as far as the story lets us know , he is not aware
of that fact.
Finally , it is in the third chapter where with the help of Lisa , Karen
explicitly acknowledges that she wants to dominate her husband , to turn
him into her slave , and she sets out to do just that.As her friend
advises her "You have to break him"!
Each of the chapters from the third onwards describes a further event in
Mikey's continuing subjugation.These include forced anal worship ,
bondage , anal rape ( the woman rapes the man of course , what did you
expect ?  ) and some more bondage.I should mention that the story never
actually reaches an ending.There simply wasn't another posting after
chapter 7.That's a pity because a lot more could be done around the same
lines for example spanking or enforced chastity.Or at least some kind of
epilogue.Another thing to mention is that the author claims that most of
what she describes actually happened but I have my reservations about
that.For one thing if it's true then Ms Lisa should have her license
revoked.

There are so many things to admire about this story.First the gradual shift
in the relative positions of Karen and Mikey.As I said , in the beginning
it is Michael who has the upper hand but he ends up much inferior to Karen
in the mental as well as in the physical level.In the mental because of
his "training".In the physical because Karen feels so much energized
after her first victory that she adds weight training to her exercise
regime something she wasn't doing before.So naturally she becomes much
stronger than her husband and if she has to get physical with him she can
overcome his resistance easily.
Another thing is how well this double domination of the male works.For
example in chapter 6 we have Karen and Lisa discussing which is the ideal
position for Mikey to be in when he gets raped ! Unfortunately this part
of the conversation is not quoted nevertheless just thinking about such
a scene will make every femdom fan's blood boil.
And of course we have all these other things I mentioned when I was
talking about chapter 1.
There is however one flaw.Some of the wrestling descriptions don't make
sense. Take for example chapter 2 , the scene where Michael is on his side
and trapped between Karen's legs. Try to imagine it and you will see that
what is described is geometrically impossible.

These minor weaknesses shouldn't stop you from reading the story though.
It is mind blowing stuff !