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Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy
By: Staci Newmahr
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ISBN: 9780253222855 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year of publishing: 2011 Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 244
Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this path-breaking book, ethnographer...Read more
Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this path-breaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavour, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.
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About the author: Staci Newmahr
Review:Newmahr's decisions to use passages of creative representation to convey 'felt' experiences, as well as to use her own body as an instrument of intellectual inquiry to such an extent, bring a sense...Read more
Newmahr's decisions to use passages of creative representation to convey 'felt' experiences, as well as to use her own body as an instrument of intellectual inquiry to such an extent, bring a sense of depth and presence to the book that is often sorely lacking in such work." Katherine Frank, author of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire "A fascinating, well-written, carefully researched book that illuminates a subculture about which we know very little... Never before have we had research that is so close to the community, that allows us inside this community's behavior, rationalizations, understandings, and lived experiences." Patricia Adler, co-author of Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction "An important contribution to the fields of crime/deviance and sexuality." Leon Anderson, author of Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries
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