These books are a good start on BDSM in critical theory. Philosophy, not whacking material.
Psychology
Understanding your inner pervert.
Hermaphroditus Intersex
Hermaphroditus_intersex Originally uploaded by enfemmetv I don’t know where this statue is, or if it’s just great Photoshopping. Whichever, I thank enfemmetv for allowing people to share the photo. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via…
Geek Sex and Vice Versa
Definition: A geek is a person who cares as much or more for facts, gadgets, books, or ideas as for people. Zie may display knowledge the way others show off pictures of their grandchildren: as a way of sharing what…
Study on Multiply Partnered People
Polyamory/Multi-Partnered Research Study (cross-posted; please cross-post it yourself!) Have you ever been in romantic and/or sexual relationships with two or more people at the same time? Were these relationships consensual among all parties, with each partner aware that you were…
Cautiously Optimistic
A Psychology Today blogger doesn’t actually condemn BDSM. Maybe that’s not quite the breakthrough you were hoping for. But the piece identifies some of the issues with mainstream media’s coverage of kinky practices. The blogger, identified only by initials, also…
The Word on Safewords
What safewords can and can’t do. The one time playing as a sub I had to safeword out of a scene, I was not capable of saying the safeword. I wasn’t gagged (in which case it would have been tapping…
What Do You Want from a Sub?
Everyone has a different idea of the perfect submissive. (Thank heaven — otherwise there would be a stampede in the direction of one or two, and everyone else would be wretched.) I’m curious as to which of the various qualities…
Are Toybags Necessary?
And now, a word from an old friend: With all due respect, Mistress, do you really need all this stuff just to get off? And if so, what does it say about the role of industrial production in sex? How…
Types of Scene
Doing a demo might as well not be a scene at all, in terms of my sexual arousal. It’s pure expertise, which has its own keen intellectual pleasure, but no visceral lust, no emotional involvement. One exception was the knifeplay…