Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157344779X ISBN 13: 9781573447799

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the first major guide to BDSM in a generation--a bold and sexy collection of essays that run the gamut from expert how-to tutorials to provocative essays that delve into complex questions about desire, power, and pleasure. The book brings together diverse voices from the kink community in an unprecedented way: each chapter is written by a different sexuality/BDSM educator. Divided into two sections, the first section features thorough, thoughtful pieces--on everything from flogging to bondage--packed with techniques and beautifully illustrated with original images from artist Katie Diamond. The second section is dedicated to role-playing fantasies and personal manifestos. From age play to masochism, these chapters cover some of the edgiest, most taboo and controversial elements of kink in depth. The Ultimate Guide to Kink features the expertise of renowned educators writing passionately on their favorite subjects, including Patrick Califia, Midori, Laura Antoniou, Barbara Carrellas, Lee Harrington, Jack Rinella, Lolita Wolf, Madison Young, Hardy Haberman, Felice Shays, Ignacio Rivera, Sarah Sloane, Mollena Williams, FifthAngel, and Edge. It will educate, inspire, and challenge both newcomers to the world of kink and experienced BDSM players.

About this title

About the Authors

Tristan Taormino is an American feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, radio host, and pornographic film director.

Tristan Taormino is an American feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, radio host, and pornographic film director.

Tristan Taormino is series editor of the annual collection Best Lesbian Erotica, for which she has collaborated with guest editors Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, and Jenifer Levin. She is coeditor of A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, and Ritual Sex, a collection of writing on sex, religion and spirituality. She is also publisher and editrix of the pansexual erotic magazine Pucker Up. Her writing appears in several publications and anthologies. The Advocate named her one of the Best and Brightest Gay and Lesbian People Under 30. She lives in Brooklyn.

From the Back Cover

Expand Your Erotic Horizons Beyond the Ordinary

"This is more than just a guide to kink, it's more than a sex manual. Editor Tristan Taormino has brought the players, thinkers and rock stars of the kink scene and together they have created a book that not only lets people know where to start, but why to start, and what they'll get out of it. Vanillas, novices, old hands, old guardeveryone can learn from this collection." Dan Savage

Award-winning author, filmmaker and sex educator Tristan Taormino presents this bold and sexy treasury that runs the gamut from expert tutorials on kinky erotic practices to thought-provoking essays that delve into complex questions about desire, power and pleasure. The Ultimate Guide to Kink features the expertise of renowned educators writing passionately on their favorite subjects, including Patrick Califia, Midori, Laura Antoniou, Barbara Carrellas, Lee Harrington, Jack Rinella, Lolita Wolf, Madison Young, Hardy Haberman, Felice Shays, Ignacio Rivera, Sarah Sloane, Mollena Williams, FifthAngel and Edge. This comprehensive volume includes:

techniques and creative ideas for bondage, spanking, flogging, sensation play, rough sex and more, illustrated by Katie Diamond

lessons on how to eroticize power, cultivate deeper connections and incorporate kink into your sex life

role-playing fantasies from the popular to the taboo

provocative and personal manifestos on dominance, submission, sadism and masochism

Edition details

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157344779X
• ISBN 13: 9781573447799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Taormino Tristan