The Power of Bdsm

Play, Communities, and Consent in the 21st Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-765859-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

This volume examines crucial questions about human sexuality through the lens of BDSM: What is sexuality? What makes an experience sexual or not? What role do communities play in shaping sexual identities? How are BDSM communities similar to and different from other kinds of sexuality and identity-based communities?

This book presents a thoughtful study of BDSM experiences in diverse communities across geographic boundaries to examine crucial questions about human sexuality. Featuring cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research, methodologies, and theoretic approaches, the chapters also address questions of broader interest around how identities are created and regulated, the ethics of research on stigmatized populations, how popular culture representations shape lived experiences, and the complex relationships among structural and personal power. Throughout, the volume foregrounds questions of meaning, taking as an empirical question rather than an a priori assumption the range of meanings that BDSM experiences have for participants.

The Power of BDSM is an evidence-based, provocative inquiry into the ethics, culture, and intersectional identities that is revealed through the BDSM practices across geographic locations for academics, scholars, and students interested in sexualities, identities, communities, inequalities, and related topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simula, Brandy

Bauer, Robin

Wignall, Liam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Series Foreword

- Phillip L. Hammack

- Foreword

- Charles Moser and Peggy J. Kleinplatz

- Preface

- Brandy L. Simula, Robin Bauer, and Liam Wignall

- Part I Introducing BDSM

- Introduction: Understanding BDSM

- Brandy L. Simula

- Chapter 1: Research in BDSM: 40 Years Along

- Thomas S. Weinberg

- Chapter 2: The Role of the Internet in Research on BDSM

- Liam Wignall

- Part II Play and Practices

- Chapter 3: The World of Rope Bondage: Belonging, Resistance, and the "Infinite Possibilities" of Community

- Zoey Jones

- Chapter 4: Play, Performativity, and the Production of a Pup Identity in the United States

- Robert M. Matchett and Dana Berkowitz

- Chapter 5: Perverting Innocence in Age Play? Using Little Space to Explore Vulnerability, Innocence, and Discipline in Adultist Society

- Robin Bauer

- Part III Relationships and Communities

- Chapter 6: Navigating Dissonant Desires: Kink (In)Compatibility in Romantic Relationships

- Daniel Cardoso Patrícia M. Pascoal, and Rita Quaresma

- Chapter 7: Dispelling the Negative Perception of the BDSM Community in Johannesburg, South Africa

- Tracey L. McCormick

- Chapter 8: Kinky, Swinky, and PolyKink: Reflections on BDSM Influences on Other Sexual Communities

- Marla Renee Stewart

- Part IV Representations and Personal Reflections

- Chapter 9: Examining Representations of BDSM in Undergraduate Human Sexuality Textbooks: Academic and Community Perspectives

- Benjamin C. Graham, Tsolak M. Kirakosyan, Jessica A. Fox, and Miles Ruvabalca

- Chapter 10: A Record of Violence: The Continuing Criminalization of BDSM Activities

- Theodore Bennett

- Chapter 11: Dominance, Submission, and Intersectionality: The Liberatory Potential of Authority Exchange

- Sinclair Sexsmith

- Part V Ethics and Consent in the Scene and in BDSM Studies

- Chapter 12: The Politics of BDSM Play: Racial Dynamics and Critical Consent

- Amber R. Norman

- Chapter 13: Survivors of Sexual Victimization and the Negotiation of BDSM Play

- Karen Holt

- Chapter 14: From Pain to Healing: Kink and Communication in Sexual Assault Recovery

- Valerie Rubinsky, Angela Cooke-Jackson, and Alejandre Rodriguez

- Chapter 15: Emotions, Power, and BDSM: The Stance of the Ethnographer

- Charlotta Carlström

- Afterword

- Thomas S Weinberg

Über Autor(innen)

Brandy L. Simula (she/her/hers) is a queer feminist sociologist who studies identities, interactions, and inequalities. Her work appears in Sexualities, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Bisexuality, Sociology Compass, Social Currents, and Social Sciences. She is the lead editor of Expanding the Rainbow, the guest editor of the Gender & Identity special issue of Social Sciences, and a special issue of Sexualities on BDSM.
Robin Bauer (he/him/his or they/them/theirs) is a professor for Epistemology and Theories of Difference at the Faculty of Social Work, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany. He has published widely in the fields of transgender studies, BDSM, sexuality, non-monogamies, queer theory, and queer-feminist science studies and epistemology. His work has been published in Sexualities, NORMA, WSQ, Graduate Journal of Social Science, Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, Journal für Psychologie and Cahiers du Genre and in

numerous edited volumes. His book, Queer BDSM Intimacies, was published by Palgrave in 2014.
Liam Wignall (he/him) is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Brighton. He explores the identities and experiences of non-heterosexual individuals related to kink, BDSM, and fetishes; pornography consumption; drag subcultures; non-exclusive sexualities; and sexual consent. He draws on theories from psychology, sociology and cultural studies, focusing on the impact of the internet and the role of community participation for these individuals. His work has been published in Archives of Sexual Behavior; Journal of Sex Research; Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity; and Psychology & Sexuality. He is currently editor for the Psychology of Sexualities Review, and Associate Editor for Psychology & Sexuality, and the Journal of Positive Sexuality. His book, Kinky in the Digital Age, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.