Sadomasochism And The Bdsm Community In The United States

Author : Stephen K. Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000346077

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Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States by Stephen K. Stein Pdf

Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine harassment by law enforcement and win inclusion in American society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text’s historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. Its clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology of a movement that has long been neglected.

Author : Staci Newmahr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253005120

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Playing on the Edge by Staci Newmahr Pdf

Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.

Author : Peggy J. Kleinplatz,Charles Moser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317765974

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Sadomasochism by Peggy J. Kleinplatz,Charles Moser Pdf

A book that dispels the myths about those who prefer to go beyond “vanilla” sex Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures is a comprehensive exploration of the entire sexual subculture that lies on the cutting edge of society. The mental health professions and society have marginalized people who practice sadomasochism (SM).This interdisciplinary collection dispels myths surrounding SM, bringing together leading scholars from the fields of sexology, psychology, sociology, and medicine, alongside queer studies and sexual minority advocacy. Experts such as Thomas S. Weinberg, PhD, Susan Wright, MA, Margaret Nichols, PhD, Odd Reiersol, PhD, Svein Skeid, Rebecca F. Plante, PhD, Niklas Nordling, MPsych, and N. Kenneth Sandnabba, PhD, among other stellar authorities, reveal research findings, clinical data, and critical thinking about sexuality that lies beyond “vanilla.” To gain a broader understanding of human sexuality, the study of SM is crucial for what it reveals about us as sexual beings. The text discusses the results of research into practitioners’ behaviors and perspectives, the prevalence of SM behaviors in today’s culture, and stresses the need for greater tolerance and understanding. The realization of SM desires and their acceptance are explored in detail. This unflinching look at the world and the people of SM will guide scholars and lay people alike into a more sensitive, sex-friendly viewpoint of the people society calls “kinky.” Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures answers questions such as: What is the nature of SM relationships? What are the values and motives of SM participants? How do mental health professionals regard and treat SM practitioners? Should sadomasochism continue to be classified as a mental illness? What is the legal status of SM and what are the consequences of discrimination against SM practitioners? Does increasing visibility of SM imagery decrease stigma or create added problems? What can ordinary lovers learn from those we have marginalized about the farther reaches of human erotic potential? Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures is valuable, insightful reading for mental health professionals, students, sex educators, sex counselors, sex therapists, sex researchers, sexual health workers, sociologists, sexual minority groups, and anyone interested in learning more about the sexual pleasures that lie beyond the traditional.

Author : Peter Tupper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781538111185

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A Lover's Pinch by Peter Tupper Pdf

A worldwide subculture that influences everything from fashion to advertising, sadomasochism has a long and lively history. A Lover’s Pinch tells the story of consensual sadomasochism, from a controversial religious practice to a secretive sexuality branded a perversion. The origins of kink and fetish culture have been shrouded in secrecy and myths, until now. Here, Peter Tupper reveals the true story of sadism and masochism, dominance and submission. From the ancient Christian flagellants to the Fifty Shades trilogy, the history of consensual sadomasochism is a story of fascinating individuals, unlikely connections and strange twists and turns. Meet Arthur Munby, the Victorian gentleman who secretly married Hannah Cullwick, his maid of all work, and called her his slave; and Jack McGeorge, the UN weapons inspector who was outed as a BDSM club leader just before the Iraq war. Explore the links between Robinson Crusoe,Uncle Tom's Cabin and modern BDSM pornography, and between fetish fashion and anti-Catholic propaganda. Learn how the 19th century middle-class household nurtured dominant-submissive sexuality. Discover the secret history of a hidden world. Winner, 2019 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award, NLA-International

Author : Darren Langdridge,Meg John Barker
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X030276357

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Safe, Sane and Consensual by Darren Langdridge,Meg John Barker Pdf

Psychological and medical perspectives on sadomasochism have historically been concerned with understanding it as a form of psychopathology. In the past (but still often today) studies of S/M have been concerned with extreme and most often non-consensual acts. However, more recently there has been growing interest in exploring the meaning of S/M in non-pathological ways. This book directly addresses this development, presenting some of the most recent cutting edge work on S/M by leading international scholars who all seek to understand rather than pathologise. This includes the latest thinking on theory and practice, academic-community pieces, as well as the presentation of new empirical findings across the range of identities and practices that constitute S/M.

Author : Sophie Franklin,Hannah Piercy,Arya Thampuran,Rebecca White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003815242

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Consent by Sophie Franklin,Hannah Piercy,Arya Thampuran,Rebecca White Pdf

Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of ‘consent’ across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations. This volume is distinctive in its diverse conceptual scope and commitment to cross-disciplinary dialogue, accommodating perspectives on consent that are contextually sensitive and culturally diverse. The chapters examine a range of topics, from socio-cultural engagements with consent in Latin American music, feminist movements in Pakistan, and BDSM in Poland, to theoretical and pedagogical ones exploring alternative possibilities for framing and understanding consent through intersectional approaches and institutional curricula. Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future is of value to researchers, practitioners, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and general readers interested in histories, representations, and future possibilities of consent in its many manifestations. The Introduction and Afterword of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Author : David M. Ortmann,Richard A. Sprott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781442217355

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Sexual Outsiders by David M. Ortmann,Richard A. Sprott Pdf

This study draws on common sense, humor, anecdotes, interviews, history, clinical case studies, analyses of human behavior, and basic ideas from psychology and philosophy to ilustrate the real lives and experiences of men and women in BDSM communities.

Author : Stephen K. Stein,Maureen MacLeod
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000858198

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Teaching and Learning History Online by Stephen K. Stein,Maureen MacLeod Pdf

Teaching and Learning History Online: A Guide for College Instructors offers everything a new online history instructor needs in one package, including how to structure courses, integrate multimedia, and manage and grade discussions, as well as advice for department chairs on curriculum management, student advising, and more. In today’s technological society, online courses are quickly becoming the new normal in terms of collegiate instruction, providing the ideal environment to "flip the classroom" and encourage students to hone critical thinking skills by engaging deeply with historical sources. While much of the attention in online teaching focuses on STEM, business, and education courses, online history courses have also proven consistently popular. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new history instructors are rushed into online teaching with little or no training or experience, creating a need for a guide to ease the transition from classroom to online course development and teaching. A timely text, this book aims to provide both new and experienced college history teachers the information they need to develop dynamic online courses.

Author : Marc Stein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000685725

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Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein Pdf

Now in its second edition, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides an accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential groups and organizations, major successes and failures, and the movement’s lasting effects and unfinished work. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the second half of the twentieth century, Marc Stein examines the changing agendas, beliefs, strategies, and vocabularies of a movement that encompassed diverse actions, campaigns, ideologies, and organizations. From the homophile activism of the 1950s and 1960s through the rise of gay liberation and lesbian feminism in the 1970s to the multicultural and AIDS activist movements of the 1980s, this book provides a strong foundation for understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer politics today. This new edition reflects the substantial changes in the field since the book’s original publication eleven years ago. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement will be valued by everyone interested in LGBTQ struggles, the politics of movement activism, and the history of social justice in the United States.

Author : Margot Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822351597

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Techniques of Pleasure by Margot Weiss Pdf

In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.

Author : Peter Tupper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sadomasochism
ISBN : 1538111179

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A Lover's Pinch by Peter Tupper Pdf

A Lover's Pinch offers a lively history of consensual sadomasochism, from a controversial religious practice, to a secretive sexuality branded a perversion, to a worldwide subculture that influences everything from fashion to advertising. This book reveals the true story of sadism and masochism, dominance and submission.

Author : Robin Ruth Linden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UCSC:32106019257606

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Against Sadomasochism by Robin Ruth Linden Pdf

Author : Laurie James-Hawkins,Róisín Ryan-Flood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003805106

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Consent by Laurie James-Hawkins,Róisín Ryan-Flood Pdf

This book considers the concept of consent in different contexts with the aim of exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different situations. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social attempts to explain its meaning often centre on overly simplistic, narrow and binary definitions, viewing consent as something that occurs at a specific point in time. This book examines the nuances of consent and how it is enacted and re-enacted in different settings (including online spaces) and across time. Consent is most often connected to the idea of sexual assault and is often viewed as a straight-forward concept and one that can be easily explained. Yet there is confusion among the public, as well as among academics and professionals as to what consent truly is and even the degree to which individuals conceptualise and act on their own ideas about consent within their own lives. Topics covered include: consent in digital and online interactions, consent in education, consent in legal settings and the legal boundaries of consent, and consent in sexual situations including sex under the influence of substances, BDSM, and kinky sex. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in issues of consent from the social sciences, gender theory, feminist studies, law, psychology, public health, and sexuality studies.

Author : Arielle Greenberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780807020227

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Superfreaks by Arielle Greenberg Pdf

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of “kinky f*ckery,” as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood world of kink. Lifelong practitioner and student of “kinky f*ckery” Arielle Greenberg draws on her study and teaching of BDSM and fetishism to introduce kink’s history and trailblazing kinksters like Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mollena Williams-Haas, and Tom of Finland explain the science behind sexual fetishes delve into the psychology behind power exchange parse the politics of sexual deviance Superfreaks is an accessible, interactive. and raunchy experience that invites the reader to engage their kinky curiosity. Written with folks of all genders and sexual orientations in mind, the book features resources like quizzes readers can take with their partners to help assess sexual compatibility sidebars with lists of kinky representation in literature, film, music, and more an A-to-Z glossary of kinky gear, from collars and floggers to zentai suits and beyond Superfreaks challenges and dismantles longstanding myths about kink perpetuated by pop culture phenomena like Fifty Shades of Grey and 365 Days. In doing so, Greenberg names the systemic marginalization kinky people experience and argues that we must build a society that accepts and celebrates sexual diversity of all kinds. The book also affirms the importance of consent and not “yucking someone’s yum”—key concepts inherent to the practice of kink that are essential building blocks for safer, more inclusive sex.

Author : Karen E. Lovaas,Mercilee M. Jenkins
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412914437

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Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life by Karen E. Lovaas,Mercilee M. Jenkins Pdf

Excerpts from foundational work, recent journal articles and pieces written for this text about the role of communication in the construction and performance of sexualities in interpersonal contexts and public discourses.