OK, I clearly need to read the whole blurb before buying/reading books like this even though my goodreads friends LOVED them and gave them five stars because my gut reaction to this kind of BDSM book is to think "wow, these characters need serious mental health services" which is probably all kinds of judgey and unfair. But there wasn't even a funny (no butt plug pony tails or cooking-show-recipe sex here!) angle to this depressing but fairly well-written little book about a guy who needs to be beat up at every turn and probably will never be able to wear a swimsuit again. 
 Seriously, I was expecting something like a Harlequin Presents "The Greek Tycoon's Virgin Mistress" only m/m (e.g. something like The Wolfe Proxy or Force of Law) because I skimmed the blurb.