Sadomasochism

Powerful Pleasures

Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Charles Moser, Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Charles Moser

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781560236405
• eBook ISBN: 9781317765974
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

A book that dispels the myths about those who prefer to go beyond vanilla sex

Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures is a comprehensive exploration of the entire sexual subculture that lies on the cutting edge of society. The mental health professions and society have marginalized people who practice sadomasochism (SM).This interdisciplinary collection dispels myths surrounding SM, bringing together leading scholars from the fields of sexology, psychology, sociology, and medicine, alongside queer studies and sexual minority advocacy. Experts such as Thomas S. Weinberg, PhD, Susan Wright, MA, Margaret Nichols, PhD, Odd Reiersol, PhD, Svein Skeid, Rebecca F. Plante, PhD, Niklas Nordling, MPsych, and N. Kenneth Sandnabba, PhD, among other stellar authorities, reveal research findings, clinical data, and critical thinking about sexuality that lies beyond vanilla.

To gain a broader understanding of human sexuality, the study of SM is crucial for what it reveals about us as sexual beings. The text discusses the results of research into practitioners' behaviors and perspectives, the prevalence of SM behaviors in today's culture, and stresses the need for greater tolerance and understanding. The realization of SM desires and their acceptance are explored in detail. This unflinching look at the world and the people of SM will guide scholars and lay people alike into a more sensitive, sex-friendly viewpoint of the people society calls kinky.

Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures answers questions such as:

• What is the nature of SM relationships?
  
• What are the values and motives of SM participants?
  
• How do mental health professionals regard and treat SM practitioners?
  
• Should sadomasochism continue to be classified as a mental illness?
  
• What is the legal status of SM and what are the consequences of discrimination against SM practitioners?
  
• Does increasing visibility of SM imagery decrease stigma or create added problems?
  
• What can ordinary lovers learn from those we have marginalized about the farther reaches of human erotic potential?
  
  

Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures is valuable, insightful reading for mental health professionals, students, sex educators, sex counselors, sex therapists, sex researchers, sexual health workers, sociologists, sexual minority groups, and anyone interested in learning more about the sexual pleasures that lie beyond the traditional.

Index

ABH. See Actual Bodily Harm (ABH)

Ability to leave, in 24/7 SM slavery, 92

Absolut vodka ad, 218

Abuse

child, SM practices resulting from, 44

sexual

in children, sexual orientation effects of, 53–54

defined, 53

Access Hollywood, 110

Activism, SM, 210–213. See also Sadomasochism (SM) activist/activism

Actual bodily harm (ABH), 169–170, 174

ADA. See American Decency Association (ADA)

AFA. See American Family Association (AFA)

Against Sadomasochism, 220, 221

Alison, L., 7, 20, 22, 23, 41, 51

All Women of Leather, 307

Altoids breath mint ad, 123

American Decency Association (ADA), 227

American Family Association (AFA), 227

American Gay Liberation Movement (1969), 194

American Psychiatric Association (APA), 12, 29, 229, 246, 327

American Psychological Association, Ethics Code for Psychologists of, 305

Amnesty International, 266

Andersen, Y.H., 258

Anger, K., 197

ANOVA, 145–147

Anthony, E., 76

Antisocial personality disorder, 141

A.N.T.R.O., 263–265

APA. See American Psychiatric Association (APA)

APEX. See Arizona Power Exchange (APEX)

Appeal Court, 170

Appellate Court, 201

“Appleby Statute,” 208–209

Arizona Power Exchange (APEX), 33

Arsenio Hall Show, 74

Associated Press, 210

Asylum(s), Salpetriere, 191

Attention, continuing, for relationship factors, 338–339

Attleboro District Courthouse, 208, 209

Austria, SM in, 274–276

Authoritarianism subscale, of DPQ, 141

AWOL, 307

B & D. See Bondage and discipline (B & D)

Ballantine’s Law Dictionary, 193

Baltimore AT-EASE, 225

Bannon, R., 257

“Barde,” 278

Barnard College, 20...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: The State of Our Knowledge on SM
• Sadomasochism and the Social Sciences: A Review of the Sociological and Social Psychological Literature
• Differences and Similarities Between Gay and Straight Individuals Involved in the Sadomasochistic Subculture
• Sexual Spanking, the Self, and the Construction of Deviance
• 24/7 SM Slavery
• Mainstreaming Kink: The Politics of BDSM Representation in U.S. Popular Media
• Understanding Sadomasochism: An Empirical Examination of Four Perspectives
• The Spanner Trials and the Changing Law on Sadomasochism in the UK
• Negotiating Limits: The Legal Status of SM in the United States
• Discrimination of SM-Identified Individuals
• SM (Sadomasochistic) Interests as an Issue in a Child Custody Proceeding
• The ICD Diagnoses of Fetishism and Sadomasochism
• SM International
• Psychotherapeutic Issues with “Kinky” Clients: Clinical Problems, Yours and Theirs
• Investigating Bias in Psychotherapy with BDSM Clients
• Learning from Extraordinary Lovers: Lessons from the Edge
• Index