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Safe, sane and consensual : contemporary perspectives on sadomasochism
- Title
- Safe, sane and consensual : contemporary perspectives on sadomasochism / edited by Darren Langdridge and Meg Barker.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Description
- xiv, 310 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007048530-t.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007048530-d.html
- Other contributors
- Langdridge, Darren. Barker, Meg-John, 1974-
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
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- Introducing sadomasochism
- Situating sadomasochism / Darren Langdridge and Meg Barker
- The cultural formation of S/M : history and analysis / Kathy Sisson
- Themes of SM expression / Charles Moser and Peggy J. Kleinplatz
- Is SM pathological? / Peggy J. Kleinplatz and Charles Moser
- Sadomasochism and the law / Matthew Weait
- Theorising pain and injury
- Speaking the unspeakable : S/M and the eroticisation of pain / Darren Langdridge
- The 'bodily practices' of consensual 'SM', spirituality and 'transcendence' / Andrea Beckmann
- Beyond safety : erotic asphyxiation and the limits of SM discourse / Lisa Downing
- Empirical research
- Sexual fantasies of S/M practitioners : the impact of gender and S/M role on fantasy content / Megan R. Yost
- On becoming a gay SMer : a sexual scripting perspective / Eric Chaline
- Playgrounds and new territories : the potential of BDSM practices to queer genders / Robin Bauer
- Therapeutic perspectives
- The power of play : the potentials and pitfalls in healing narratives of BDSM / Meg Barker, Camelia Gupta and Alessandra Iantaffi
- Shadow play : S/M journeys to our selves / Dossie Easton
- Some beneficial aspects of exploring personas and role play in the BDSM context / William A. Henkin
- Bridging the academic/activist divide
- CARAS : an initiative to link alternative sexuality communities and academic researchers / Richard A. Sprott and Robert V. Bienvenu II
- Turning the world upside down : developing a tool for training about SM / Meg Barker
- Who is in charge in an SM scene? / Sophia
- SM and sexual freedom : a life history / Grant Denkinson
- Experiences of a pro-domme / Mlle Alize
- Total power exchange in a modern family : a personal perspective / Rachel Green.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sadomasochism.
- ISBN
- 0230517749 (alk. paper) 9780230517745 (alk. paper)