In erotic stories, consensual submissives and slaves all too often have unrealistic lives, kept in cages or suffering terrible tortures ? or serving placidly without ever having a bad day. Real life, on the other hand, is more likely to involve the torture of changing the catbox or doing the dishes, and actual voluntary servants can find themselves snagged in doubt, rebellion, or frustration. These essays and interviews by real-life submissives and slaves tell of how they learned to get past the unmapped struggles in the road to submission, and learn to make peace with the life they wanted and chose. Learning Submission is a wealth of practical help from more experienced followers to beginning followers of all kinds.