Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality

by Margot Danielle Weiss, Margot Weiss, Margot Danielle Weiss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351595
• ISBN13: 9780822351597
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"