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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weiss, Margot Danielle, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.