Different Loving: An Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission - Hardcover

Brame, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679408738 ISBN 13: 9780679408734

Publisher: Villard, 1993

Synopsis

A breakthrough in sexual literature, this work is a complete, comprehensive user-friendly guide to and tour through the world of alternative sexual lifestyles. While the topics are exotic and erotic, the authors handle each one in a sensitive, thorough, analytical, and fascinating way and manage to explain a secret world to those who might wish to visit.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

About the Author

William D. Brame, husband of Gloria Brame, is a professional archaeologist, novelist, and freelance writer. Brame is the author of Different Loving: A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission. 

Gloria Brame is a bestselling author and internationally renowned sex therapist well known for her research into eliminating stigmas from BDSM and fetish sex. She received her MA in English literature from Columbia University and a PhD in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. Brame became a certified sexologist from the American College of Sexologists in 2002. She is the author of several breakthrough books on sexual relationships, such as Different Loving, Different Loving Too, and The Truth About Sex: A Sex Primer for the 21st Century.

Jon Jacobs is a freelance writer and editor with a background in photojournalism. Jacobs is the author of Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission.

From Kirkus Reviews

Few books come with warning labels, but this one does: ``Readers should not attempt any of the activities described in these pages.'' Why not? Because the outr‚ sexual practices described by the Brames (she: a former therapist; he: a former archaeologist) and Jacobs (a freelance writer) in this bold report carry psychological and, often, physical risks--though that hasn't stopped the two-hundred-odd practitioners whom the authors interviewed, nor the millions who share their passion for sexual dominance and submission (D&S). All D&S, the authors explain, involves a ``power exchange'' in which one partner ``tops,'' or dominates, and the other ``bottoms,'' or submits--whether through bondage, wrestling, whipping, body-piercing, etc. After running through the history of D&S scholarship--with expected nods at Krafft-Ebbing and Havelock Ellis--the Brames and Jacob present an overview of the practices themselves, which range from infantilism (the bottom often wears a diaper and sucks on a bottle) and depersonalization (the bottom may act like an object, perhaps a footstool, or an animal, most often a pony) to spanking, cross-dressing, foot fetishes, enemas, branding, and so on. The authors discuss the methods, psychological bases, and historical backgrounds of the practices, each of which is illuminated by interviews with practitioners who speak with great seriousness (``Deliberate, ritualized infliction of what we call pain can change the relationship of the body and that which lives in the body,'' says Fakir Musafar, who likes to dangle from trees by way of ``fleshhooks''). And as for the risks, nearly all of these sexual outlaws identify with the ``Scene'' (the vast D&S underground that's highly self-aware: Two thousand infantilists, for example, belong to a ``Diaper Pail Fraternity'') and with its credo of ``Safe, Sane, and Consensual.'' The definitive guide to the sexual styles of those who walk on the wild side. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Villard
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679408738
• ISBN 13: 9780679408734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 539