Chapter One: Introductory Kink
KINKY CONFESSIONAL Nine years ago, I began working on a book called
Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission. When my coauthors and I started out, we assumed we would be researching the small sexual subculture of dominance and submission (also known as B&D and SM) to which we belonged. Basically, we sought to write a book
about people like us
for people like us people who knew what they liked but felt they needed to understand more about kinky sex from a broad perspective.
On this assumption, we researched the history and practice of SM, and directed all our interview efforts at people in the "Scene" (a nickname for the kinky subculture in the United States). Aiming for diversity, we talked to as many different kinky people as possible gay, straight, transgendered, bisexual. We recruited them from kinky newsgroups on the Internet, sometimes according ...
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