Techniques of Pleasure
ISBN: 9780822394914
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Sex; Sex; Bondage (Sexual behavior); Sadomasochism;

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.

Margot Weiss is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University.


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