Trade For Time: And Other ENF, CMNF, and Humiliation Stories review!

I haven't had much time to read for fun, which is why I was excited to finally pick up Trade For Time: And Other ENF, CMNF, and Humiliation Stories by K.S. Thompson. You cannot go wrong when the artist for the book cover is Gao23 !

This book contains four short ENF stories and it did not disappoint! ENF/EUF related fiction is taboo because it is a genre that deals with nonconsensual acts, in this case forced stripping. On the more extreme end, this can lead to other humiliating situations that can become quite extreme, which may not be for everyone. That is why I enjoyed the setups Thompson used for each scenario. The setups for "Couples Retreat" and "Marcy Takes a Nosedive" were very creative in setting up a believable dilemma that forced the protagonists, Holly and Marcy to strip down. For Holly it is entering the compound of a cult and for Marcy, it is an unfortunate mishap in which the actor in her film who is supposed to pose nude gets cold feet and splits. "The Breast of Friends" is a nice follow-up story in which we learn more about how Marcy has coped from her previous embarrassing situation.

The other story, Trade for Time uses a favorite trope of mine, a police officer losing their uniform. In this case, it is a sheriff and a deputy who are caught in a hostage situation. Again, on the surface this is a scene that could be violent, but what Thompson does well is set up a dilemma in which the coercion to strip comes from the main character, Stephanie, to strip in order to buy time for backup. What I liked about this approach was that it gave more agency to Stephanie rather than the violent suspect who is holding hostages. Although all three characters are forced to strip, I like that Thompson wrote them in a way in which they had some agency in taking off their clothes in that stripping naked served a means that benefited them and not someone else watching. I think Trade for Time was my favorite of the four, mainly because I liked the slow build-up in which Sheriff Stephanie feels more pressure to strip as the hostage situation carries on. As a fan of panty-play, this story in particular does a good job incorporating EUF, particularly with the character Amy, Stephanie's deputy.

In addition to the unique setups to their enf situations, Thompson uses a lot of humor in their stories. As previously discussed, one thing that makes the enf genre unique from other humiliation fetishes is the emphasis on comedy and silliness. The dialogue for many of the characters is hilarious as they each get their chance to make witty comebacks or wisecracks. I think this is another reason why Thompson is able to humanize their characters. There are also some sexual elements in these stories, some of which Thompson utilized as a form of embarrassment, which I enjoyed. Most of the attention is given towards the stripping itself and the aftermath once the characters have lost their clothes. For those who aren't as interested in sexual content in their enf stories, these stories are perfect for you.

 Overall, these are four fun ENF stories that are worth adding to your collection. I admire Thompson's creativity in setting the characters up to make the choice to sacrifice their dignity. Look for Trade for Time here on Amazon!

Featured Artist: Biker

It had to have been around 2004. I was still developing in terms of my own sexuality and what I knew that I liked. So far, I knew that was women in their underwear. I can't remember how, but I ended up on a website called Writings of Leviticus. It had two types of stories, Bondage, and Enforced nudity. It was here that I found a comic strip story involving a maid whose dress was sucked up by an evil vacuum The artist, Biker. Seeing the maid's black uniform sucked off her body, leaving her in panties and a garter belt left me aroused in a way i had not experienced. From that day, I had a name for what kink that turned me on the most, it was not just women in their underwear, it was women left embarrassed after losing their clothes. Enforced nudity, or embarrassed nude females was the internet rabbit hole that would have a lasting impact on my life, going from just a fetish to my own exploration in the kink community and finally an erotica writer. Throughout that time, one person I would continue to see, whose work I continue to admire is Biker. This was such a great interview and I appreciated how vulnerable Biker was willing to be in answering my questions. Being that ENF is a non-consensual genre, I too had struggled with writing these stories and so I appreciate the reflection that Biker has when he makes his own artwork. Enjoy!

Autobiography

The pseudonym "Biker" was adopted by me back in 1997 as a net name for an ENF forum called Byron's Stripped naked forum. It's long gone now but birthed several like-minded forums of that genre, including Indian Outlaw's Stripping Naked Discussion Board, which is still running to this day! I'd spend many a happy hour there reading the stories and such and then one day someone posted a comment saying it was a shame no one did ENF photos shoots or even drew artwork along those lines. I'd been drawing this sort of thing since my teens so I sorta stepped into that gap when I posted my very first Jenny drawing in March of that year from a story I had written, which, as it happens, was also my first ever written story. That was my first artistic step on this path.
However, the first real step began waaaay back in 1975 when I was a 13 year schoolboy with a crush on my geography teacher. One fateful day she happened to be walking down a flight of stairs towards me and the wind whipped open her denim buttoned skirt, showing me a gorgeous expanse of her left thigh. I was blown away by that sight, and it was the catalyst that started me down this route. When I got home from school, I tried to draw what I had seen but sadly I wasn't able to do that moment any justice whatsoever. However, I did find I didn't have to replicate it because I could draw ANY scenario I wanted to. And that's how it all started for me.

I wish I could say it's been an easy path, but guilt and dark thoughts that I was somehow perverted wracked me for years, that is until I got online and found out there were others like me, and along the way I learned that my stuff was so pathetically tame in comparison. That discovery was very liberating.

I'm now 57 and married to my very own pin-up who is also the love of my life (she knows what I draw and is totally supportive of it). We live in a small cabin in the woods (with wifi) in rural Normandy, France. I'm a carpenter by trade but nowadays I'm fortunate enough to be able to make a modest living from my artwork. Something I never dreamed of being able to do. Funny old world, eh?

Q -How long have you been doing sketches?

A - For as long as I can remember I've been drawing. As a child, my mother would encourage my brother and I to amuse ourselves by drawing and I'd create a cross section of fantastical islands with secret military bases built into the mountain side with underwater submarine pens. I'd spend hours doing this. So drawing had always been a big part of my childhood. It also kept me out from under mum's feet. Clever lady.

Q - When did you first discover embarrassed nude females as a fetish and what made it resonate with you?

A - It's not so much the nude aspect that gets me, it's her simply losing some of her clothes or unintentionally showing off too much skin that does it. Like Daleksupreme's (DS) Q&A answer, Benny Hill has to be right up there at the top of the list for influences, and there was always an innocence about the sketches Benny Hill did. He was the proverbial schoolboy, with humour to match, and there was no harm or malice towards the damsel in distress, not even implied. Like DS, I later discovered Carrie in the Mayfair magazine, but unlike DS, I prefered Don Lawrences's version of Carrie. Don Lawrence also drew The Trigan Empire as well as Storm. Heroic characters and not a bit like Carrie but the artwork was amazing! I love looking at good artwork and his was exceptional. There was another character who appeared in a daily comic strip in The Daily Mirror (UK newspaper) called Amanda. I fell in love with her and would use those drawings as the basis for my own scribblings.

What made it resonate? Maybe seeing my geography teacher's silky thigh that day and her frantic need to cover it back up before any other hormone-fueled teenage schoolboys saw it. I'm convinced that there is a certain moment in a person's life when they become hard-wired to a certain "thing", whether it's a particular fetish, hobby, passion or lifestyle. Others glide over those moments while others might settle upon them and make their home there. Mine was seeing an unintentionally exposed thigh... I've been a leg man ever since.

Q - What inspired you to draw ENF?

A - Ever read a book or comic or seen a film when the damsel gets into a situation and the writer/artist/director chooses a safe option to allow her an escape, but your immature schoolboy humour wished they'd gone along a more "naughty" route and said damsel loses her skirt in the process? THAT'S what inspired me to draw ENF. Disatisfaction at how a scene ended when it could have been sooo much better.

I remember watching a TV show back in the late 70's called The New Avengers featuring Joanna Lumley as Purdey. One episode had her running around London wearing only silky pajamas whilst escaping from thugs with guns. In one scene she's cornered in a shop and posed as a shop maniquinn hoping they wouldn't spot her... until her pajama bottoms fell down around her ankles. That was one of the rare moments a TV script went along the lines I wanted it to go. So Purdey hiked up her jimjams and proceeded to knock the crap out of the thug, then miracles of miracles her bottoms fell down AGAIN. I was on the edge of my seat by now... until she took the belt out of the unconscious thug's trousers and used it to hold up her own. I felt cheated at that solution. So near.. yet so far. My own version would have had her running around the rest of the show bottomless, possibly without her underwear too. So I drew ENF because no one else was doing the stuff I wanted to read/see/watch.

Q - There are many fun embarrassing situations to tell stories with, how do you come up with fresh ideas to avoid rehashing old ideas?

A - I guess I never really grew out of that schoolboy type humour. So whenever I watch a DVD or read a story and said damsel escapes with her clothes intact, I dream about what could have happened and go down that route. There's also nothing wrong with rehashing old ideas - Just file off the serial numbers and make them your own.

I've been drawing this stuff and posting it online since 1997 and I follow a lot of artists on DeviantArt and many other online sources that inspire me for either a one page gag, or sometimes a whole multi-page story. For example, over at my website (http://www.bikersplacetwo.com/page01.html) I'm currently working on a story featuring Ashley. What started as a simple one-page cartoon is now up to page 26. This story was inspired by my webmaster, Torben, who wrote a short story of just a couple of paragraphs, but it opened the floodgates for an idea and it took off. I'm just hanging on and enjoying the ride with it. Ashley's scooter broke down at the roadside so she resorted to flashing the passing traffic in the hope that some kindly knight in shining armour might stop and assist her. But she got arrested instead by a big blonde lady cop who isn't taking any lip from her. Once that snowball starts rolling and gaining momentum it's easy to nudge it in the direction I want it to go. I have several more pages to go with this, another 15 at least.

Q- You've been a popular artist in the ENF scene before spaces like DeviantArt were created to host its art. What have you noticed about the genre's growing popularity and why do you suppose it isn't a "mainstream" fetish?

Funnily enough I HAVE noticed the popularity of the ENF genre. When people start faving a drawing of mine and add it to a folder titled "Damsels in Distress" or "ENF", I realize that there is a genre there that is expanding. Years ago such a folder was a rare find indeed, so it's great to see so much more artwork and photography of this theme out there. Why it's not a more mainstream fetish I don't know. Maybe the younger generations need to have more Benny Hill in their lives? But each to his own, I suppose.

I remember once reading a fetish someone had for seeing a hint of petticoat peeping out from under a hemline, another was for women wearing glasses. I'm rather envious of those folk, because it's something so common they get to see it almost daily. Me, I have to wait for a breeze in the right direction and a passing geography teacher. I do hope the trend for more ENF continues, it's a light subject and not at all nasty like certain other more dark fetishes. Again, each to their own.

Q- ENF seems to have been used in a lot of British humor sketches. What do you suppose has been the origin for this style of comedy?

A - Saucy Seaside postcards has got to be a huge influence on those originators back in the day, the busty blonde in the tight dress popping a button or two fuels the imagination far more than any porn centrefold with her legs up behind her ears ever did... at least for me. Imagination is everything. The Carry On films did a lot to encourage this saucy humour and growing up in the 70's and what was on TV at the time influenced a whole generation. In my opinion, if you can mix humour and sexiness into something then you're on a good path. People basically want to laugh and if it gets them a bit steamy as well, then so much the better.

Q- I also struggled with shame and guilt when I got interested in ENF. Which leads me to ask how you moved past your guilt?

I honestly think the "guilt" is a VERY healthy aspect in this fetish, it means we actually care about the characters we create and it shows a certain respect for and who they represent. A woman. If all we did is put them through hell and not bat an eyelid, that says a lot about the psyche of the author I think. Sorry if that sounds a bit judgy. I do look at ENF photos and artwork and if, to my eyes, there's even an element of cruelty in the content it puts me right off, which is why I suppose I put such a healthy dollop of humour into my artwork.

Short answer. Getting over any guilt is a personal journey, but for me finding I wasn't alone in this fetish was the biggest step and then finding the content of my own drawings wasn't as bad as some was the second.



Look for Biker's art on his website or his Deviant Art page .