As for the submissive being kicked by a dominant while she was down...I would have lost it, being a submissive or not. I don't care who you think you are or what you think you are, you never kick someone when they are down. It's a general humane pricipal. I can't tell you how much that makes me mad. [/B][/QUOTE]

I have been following the exchange between you and Veru with some interest. A question -- "I can't tell you how much that makes me mad" -- are you referring to real life, in those words (in which case I would absolutely agree with you, of course) ? Or to stories in which villainous characters demonstrate such brutality as well?

Villains, by definition, are not going to observe conventional codes of conduct or morality.

We each have our own comfort zone, I suspect, beyond which we quickly grow uncomfortable with additional levels of violence. Mine is set fairly high, I think, (in my stories, I mean), but even so, I get about as many requests to ratchet the violence up a notch, as I do to ratchet it down.

No one ever says I got it just right. :-)

Do other authors get similar comments? Does anyone ever heed them? Or do you just continue writing in your own way as best you can?

Thanks in advance,

Boccaccio