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10%OFFMargot Weiss - Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality - 9780822351597 - V9780822351597
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Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality

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Description for Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality Paperback. Studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. This title shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires. Num Pages: 315 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JHMC; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822351597
SKU
V9780822351597
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About Margot Weiss
Margot Weiss is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University.

Reviews for Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
In its analytic candor, both generous and unflinching, Weiss's book is an appropriate entree for anyone wishing to engage with contemporary BDSM communities - nestled within the larger queer academic trend of critiquing neoliberalist ideological formations of liberated selves and others.
Andy Campbell
GLQ
The analysis of these circuits is quite fascinating and could be ... Read more

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