I quite enjoy Jacqueline Carey's writing.  I purchased her latest book, and have it sitting on My desk.  I am practicing self-denial, for My own enjoyment.  I am in the midst of rereading a series of books by another author (at 4 out of 7), and quite enjoying that.  I generally read all the prior books before reading the new one.  And I rarely read just a few in a series, of any set of novels.  This means, in essence, despite the fact that I purchased this book yesterday, I will not be reading it until I have finished the series I am currently reading, and finished rereading the books prior.  But I will look longingly at it sitting on My desk.  And perhaps stroke it occasionally.  Or even read the inside flap...again.  It has a lovely image on the cover that I am quite enjoying.  Part of the fun is imagining what's inside that cover.  When I finally get to read it, I may break it into small delicious chunks, as well.

I am reminded of a conversation with a good friend, who described putting something delectable in the fridge, and not eating it.  Just opening the fridge every so often to look at it, and then closing it again.  That kind of asceticism was more enjoyable than actually eating the yummy thing.  

I stretch out food that I enjoy, eating bits of it at a time.  It's My compromise as a diabetic; a few bites of yumminess, particularly carb-heavy yumminess, and then put it away, or give it away if it cannot be savored later.  I know of at least one friend who enjoys going out to eat with Me for precisely that reason; ze gets My leftover yumminess.

One of the earliest kink classes I went to was on teasing and denial.  The teacher posited that it is the denial that makes the teasing.  Without denial, the teasing has no bite to it.  These days, I do orgasm control that is often less about teasing and denial, and more about forcing many upon the bottom, creating an overwhelming experience of surrender that way.  But teasing and denial has it's place, and is delicious in it's own way.

In My life, it most often takes literary form.