Author | : Margot Weiss |
File Size | : 45,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 20 December 2011 |
ISBN | : 9780822351597 |
Pages | : 336 pages |
Techniques of Pleasure by Margot Weiss Book PDF Summary
In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.