Techniques of pleasure : BDSM and the circuits of sexuality /

"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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weiss, Margot Danielle, 1973-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Sadomasochism > California > San Francisco Bay Area. Bondage (Sexual behavior) > California > San Francisco Bay Area. Sex > Social aspects. Sex > Political aspects. PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality. SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Setting the scene : SM communities in the San Francisco Bay area
Becoming a practitioner : self-mastery, social control, and the biopolitics of SM
The toy bag : exchange economies and the body at play
Beyond vanilla : public politics and private selves
Sex play and social power : reading the effective circuit.