BDSM is shorthand for two distinct lifestyles that can but do not always come together. B&D stands for Bondage & Domination. S&M stands for Sadism and Masochism. One of the reasons many women are afraid to explore their sexual submissiveness is precisely the BDSM acronym; they are worried one inevitably leads to the other, which is not actually the case. Every BDSM relationship is as unique as the persons involved in it. What dominant and submissive individuals do together is determined by both of them. The idea that becoming a Sex Slave means being forced to live out the full and often extremely painful and offensive gamut of Sadomasochistic activities is completely untrue; it is a negative stereotype and in no way an accurate portrayal of the sane consensual BDSM lifestyle many loving couples have been living for years.

In Bound to Love, Maria Isabel Pita has gathered together nine erotic love stories written by some of today's hottest writers of erotica. In each story the darker side of sexuality is explored through realistic, well-developed characters deeply in love with each other and otherwise leading normal lives together. The men and women in Bound To Love are involved in serious, long-term relationships in which their deeper feelings for each other are inseparable from their erotic interaction. The stories in Bound to Love are some of the best in their genre precisely because they transcend it.