Virginia Ford (the author’s pen name) wrote Polarity because she was frustrated by misconceptions about BDSM propagated by the Fifty Shades series. She decided to write a  semi-autobiographical romance based on her experiences that the kink community would embrace as being an authentic and responsible portrayal of their world. As a lover of great literature, she also wanted to write a book that rose above the wretched prose of typical porn. She admired the work of Henry Miller, and agreed with him that modern American culture is a culture of  death, with violence, rape and murder a mainstay of many best sellers. She wanted to write an erotic best seller that rose above pornography to the level of literature, one that celebrated healthy expressions of sexuality.