Salamando wrote:If you were to write your own Sex Mage World-like story, how might you change things to better suit your taste? What elements of the magic, the setting, the cultures, etc, would you use, drop, or change?
Oh, where to start? I like the overall idea of this world. The tricky part is always the details. I've also just read the comments on your blog, about how divided readers were. Some want the women to be more powerful, others (like myself) want them to have reduced powers. And I'd love to explain myself here.
The more power sex magic grants, the less fun it is for women to use the powers. When a female awakens to her power, everything is new and exciting and she wants to try it and find out what she can and cannot do. But it seems this spirit of new found playtime wears off very quickly to them. So they have seen all the mens fantasies in their town after a few weeks and get annoyed by the topic of a man cumming or even being aroused. That's what makes them sadistic towards men.
And here's where it should be tweaked a little to work better for me.
Let them work for their powers. They shouldn't awake to their powers and immediately manipulate all the boners around them, even having a clear view of what every male is thinking. It would be more fun, if they'd start off just noticing, when someone is aroused. Getting a clearer view of how close to orgasm a man was, the more she would concentrate on what's going on.
And here comes the trick, I think Pancakes for Dinner introduced: The more a man thinks about someone, the more he binds himself to this person. He wrote something along the lines of "When you jerk off to a girl, you tell the universe, that it is she, who should have control over your orgasm."
Any female, who would want to control a guys orgasm, would have to deal with him in some non-magical way first. And then she can control him (better) through sex magic and earn the benefits, it brings for her:
Better control over this one cock, meaning she can have a clearer view of how it feels and how close he is.
Stretching the distance she can manipulate him. The closer she is, the better it works, but it all the powers wear off with distance. (Yes, even the often used orgasm-block.)
I guess this would lead to a society not too far from our own. No enslaved race of men who get collared and leashed at the age of 18 while women get all the power to do whatever they want.
How could a story develop with this limits set? Some ideas already came to mind.
Maybe some college girl trying and steal the boyfriend of another girl, because of some reasons. She would have to trick him into jerking off to her instead of his girl. Maybe some initiation ceremony at a sorority... And what endless possibilities social media would offer to power-hungry females. Nude-selfie? Why not!?
And I think women would interact much more with each other under the mentioned conditions. Because some women have control over a handfull of men, others may want to drain that power or certain men from them by tricking the males into doing things that would change their invisible bonds. Could be in a political context or corporate bosses who want decisions made a certain way, or just college girls playing pranks on each other.