Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion - Softcover

Sheppard, Simon

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9781555836344: Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion

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ISBN 10: 1555836348 ISBN 13: 9781555836344

Publisher: Alyson Books, 2003

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If Cabaret's twisted emcee had earned a degree in sociology, he might very well have turned out a book like Simon Sheppard's brilliantly conceived and executed Kinkorama. A noted erotic writer, Sheppard reveals the sometimes shocking, often hilarious, relentlessly arousing scenarios of extreme sex. Would you like to meet a foot fetishist? How about a guy in diapers? A leather master and his slave? Sheppard's journey embraces them all. The people he meets splash across the pages in Technicolor prose that places readers in the center of the action before safely leading them home again.

Simon Sheppard is a sex-advice -columnist and erotic writer from San Francisco. He was coeditor of the notorious anthologies Rough Stuff and Roughed Up and is the author of Hotter Than Hell.

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About the Author:

Simon Sheppard is a smart slut pornographer whose previous books include Kinkorama, Hotter Than Hell, and In Deep. He lives in San Francisco, where they do this sort of thing.

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A collection of first-person postcards from the outer edge of sexuality, these candid, insightful essays recount the author's journey into the covert, subterranean world of gay male fetishism. Sheppard, a sex advice columnist and co-editor of the erotic anthologies Rough Stuff and Roughed Up, offers an everyman approach to public sex, fisting, bondage, S&M parties and leather contests-all the usual, predictable suspects for this erotic subgenre. But it's the author's unapologetic moxie when confessing his preferences (on foot play: no athlete's foot, but feet ripe with a "natural tang doesn't hurt") and embarrassing first-times (on verbal abuse: be creative and steer clear of the "cliche-filled highway of homophobia") that makes this collection so winning (for adventurous readers, anyway). More anecdotal than advisory, Sheppard's dispatches are a vivid patchwork of keen observations on human sexuality; perhaps most notable is Sheppard's gentle warning to avoid letting fetishism "substitute the part for the whole." "What should be a broadening of sexual horizons can become a tightening shackle," he warns. Sheppard muses that kink is referred to as "playing" rather than "having sex" or "making love"; it's a reminder, he says, to "have fun with our bodies," and that unlike "mature sexuality," whose goal is to "make something," "play has no aim but itself." Sheppard mixes such cool observations with over-the-top anecdotes about foot fetishists and leather contests (one contestant plays "Peter Pan-sexual, flying with a transgendered Wendy to Leather-Leather Land") in a wild "travelogue" through "Kinkland."
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