1st Edition
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States Kinky People Unite
By Stephen K. Stein
Copyright 2021
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day.
Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular... Read more
Introduction 1
1 Building BDSM Networks, 1946–69 12
2 The First BDSM Groups, the 1970s 40
3 “Somewhere to Go:” BDSM Groups Proliferate, 1980–86 69
4 Creating a National BDSM Organization, 1987–89 97
5 A United, Politically Active BDSM Community, the 1990s 125
6 Success and Fragmentation: The BDSM Community in the New Millennium 156
Conclusion 184
Biography
Stephen K. Stein is Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis, USA. He works in the histories of the US military, technology, and sexuality.
