A passive, stalled man discovers that taking control sexually might teach him how to take control of the rest of his life.

Max is in his late twenties with an art degree, a job selling other people's paintings and a set of paints he hasn't touched in years. Between his dead-end job and a circle of friends whose crises have a habit of becoming his crises, Max has become very good at taking care of everyone except himself. His parents have a conception of what his life ought to be, his dysfunctional friends constantly make demands of him, and Max himself has spent years avoiding deciding what he actually wants.

Then an older dentist friend, interested in boys who floss and boys who obey, introduces him to Milwaukee's leather scene and to a version of himself Max barely knew existed: Master Max. The more comfortable Max becomes giving orders in the bedroom, the harder it becomes to keep that confidence from spilling into his friendships, his work and the art he thought he'd abandoned for good. And then there's Ben, his oldest, steadiest and perhaps only competent friend, whose place in Max's changing life may be more complicated than either of them realizes.

Self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud-funny and surprisingly poignant by turns, Aimless is a story of love, self-discovery and taking charge in more ways than one.