About Wolfram Steffen

Wolfgang Steffen is a metropolitan thinker with German roots. He is one of the leading authors of spanking and domestic discipline literature in German-speaking countries. Although he can't really identify with any scene or community, he has a strong sense for the differences between the sexes. He is a common sense man and knows men and women are anything but alike. And he is convinced that the best relationships are those that are characterized by male leadership and female subjection. His books deal with a past when the man was the undisputed head of the house, who was respected by his wife and feared by his children. He writes about a future where everything will be again the way nature has intended it to be right from the beginning. And he takes his readers to countries where nothing has changed for hundreds of years. 

As an author, Steffen is not an amateur. He learned his penmanship during his almost lifelong activity as a copywriter. He ran an agency that helped companies communicate with their market. Today Steffen's life takes place between several countries, and he spends a lot of time with his two passions: traveling and writing.

Steffen became aware of his special inclination when he was the age when boys start to be interested in girls. At that time, he was an involuntary witness to a beating. From a distance, he heard loud scolding, interrupted by the shrill protest of a girl's voice. He followed the sound and observed an elderly couple caning a young girl who was believed to be their granddaughter. The woman held the girl over a table while the man made her scream by hitting her bare bottom with a thin stick.

For Steffen, this event was a key experience that would never let him go. As an analytical spirit, he began to deal intensively with the subject and devour countless books on the subject of power, violence and sexuality. He became increasingly aware that the relationship between the sexes is not at all what is generally idealized. Love has a lot to do with owning and belonging. Sex is also an act of dominance and submission. Relationships are a constant game between rebellion and suppression. Aggression is more of a masculine trait, while humility is a feminine one.

Steffen got to know numerous countries around the world and took an analytical look at the relationships between people. He has visited schools where the cane still prevails. He has spoken to happy Indian women who have never been asked if they love the man they have been married to. He has interviewed petite Japanese women who, as teenagers, felt their teacher's paddle and, even as wives, considered it perfectly normal to be spanked by their husbands.

In other words, Wolfram Steffen researched what he uses in his books himself.