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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"" interse
Sadomasochists --- Sexual dominance and submission. --- Sadomasochism. --- S/M participants --- Persons --- D & S (Sexual behavior) --- D and S (Sexual behavior) --- D/s (Sexual behavior) --- Dominance and submission (Sexual behavior) --- Domination and submission (Sexual behavior) --- Sexual domination and submission --- Submission and dominance (Sexual behavior) --- Dominance (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sadomasochism --- Algolagnia --- Algophilia --- BDSM (Sexual behavior) --- Masochism, Sexual --- S & M (Sadomasochism) --- S and M (Sadomasochism) --- S/M (Sadomasochism) --- Sadism, Sexual --- Sado-masochism --- Sexual masochism --- Sexual sadism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Leather lifestyle --- Masochism --- Sadism --- Sexual dominance and submission
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Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes a scene devoted to a form of erotic play organized around technique, rules and regulations, consumerism, and self-mastery. Challenging the notion that SM is inherently transgressive, Weiss links the development of commodity-oriented sexual communities and the expanding market for sex toys to the eroticization of gendered, racialized, and national inequalities. She analyzes the politics of BDSM’s spectacular performances, including those that dramatize heterosexual male dominance, slave auctions, and US imperialism, and contends that the SM scene is not a “safe space” separate from real-world inequality. It depends, like all sexual desire, on social hierarchies. Based on this analysis, Weiss theorizes late-capitalist sexuality as a circuit—one connecting the promise of new emancipatory pleasures to the reproduction of raced and gendered social norms.
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