Please Scream Quietly

Julie Fennell is an associate professor of sociology at Gallaudet University with specializations in gender and sexuality. Her research has been published in Sexualities, Sociological Forum, Contraception, Gender & Society, and more. Having lived for many years as a self-identified kinky polyamorous pansexual “slut,” Dr. Fennell brings an insider’s intimate understanding to her writings about the Scene. She remains a well-established figure as a kinky performer, blogger, and presenter, and she continues to educate about BDSM in many parts of the US and Canada.

Julie Fennell’s engaging semi-autoethnography, Please Scream Quietly: A Story of Kink, explores the mid-Atlantic kink community with nuance and depth, challenging the ways that outsiders and academics have been biased in their treatment of kink culture and calling us forward into new transferable models of research, consent, and responsibility.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “Your Fantasy Is My Reality”1 Becoming “Kinky”2 “Does This Look Sexual to You?”: Why Kinksters Do BDSM 3 “Why Would We Still Follow Their Bullshit Rules?” Practicing Polyamory in the Scene4 The Love Language of Kink: BDSM Roles and Relationships5 Learning the Ropes: Values and Rules in the Scene6 Welcome to the Dungeon: Performing Kink7 The Deviant Elite: Reputation and Social Status in the SceneConclusion: What Is It That We Do?Methodological AppendixReferencesIndex