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Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission
by Gloria G. Brame,Jon Jacobs,Will Brame
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| Edition: Paperback |
| ISBN: 0679769560 |
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Publisher: Villard Books (February 1996)
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Dimensions : 1.23 x 9.19 x 6.14 (in inches)
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Description : From Publishers Weekly
Although the authors insist this tome "is not an apologia for sadomasochism," it often reads like one. Rejecting theories that explain S&M in terms of low self-esteem or regressed sexuality, they portray sexual dominants, submissives and fetishists "as they see themselves: loving and compassionate individuals" for whom pain is pleasure and physical bondage is psychologically liberating. However, it is hard to reconcile this formula with the interviewees' graphic accounts of whipping, spanking, "golden showers" (urination), the use of hot wax and clothespins, depersonalization fantasies (being treated like an animal or a chair) and so forth. The wife-husband Brames (she is a poet, he a novelist) and freelance writer Jacobs also devote sections to genital piercing, scarification (cutting one's body with a knife), tattooing, female wrestling and transvestites and transsexuals who engage in S&M. Author tour.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Review : Reviewer: meloroze from San Juan, TX USA This book is fun to read and extremely informative to people who know little about alternate styles. A lot of good, rational people harbor some kind of S&M fantasies and beat themselves up about it (pardon the pun). This book can be a real godsend to them.It describes many different things including spanking, bondage, domination, etc. Is it informative for people who have lived the BDSM lifestyle for a long time? Well, I don't know. But I would STRONGLY recommend it for a person who harbors fantasies that he/she is uncomfortable about.
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