Please Scream Quietly

A Story of Kink

AvJulie L. Fennell

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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In Please Scream Quietly, professor and self-identified kinkster Julie Fennell offers an intimate, nuanced, and engaging portrayal of the lives and loves of a BDSM community. In this first-of-its-kind collective autobiography of the frequently misunderstood and often maligned BDSM subculture, Fennell’s insider perspective shows that while most people are a little bit kinky, the BDSM community teaches its members to emphasize and cherish their kinky differences. Drawing from interviews, survey data, and years of observations, Fennell showcases kinksters’ lives and loves in a captivating, vibrant, and authoritative story. She addresses questions such as: How do kinksters define their identities? How do BDSM community members construct socially meaningful identities for themselves? Are BDSM identities always experienced as sexual? How are kinky relationships and consensual nonmonogamy/polyamory experienced in the community? Fennell provides an unprecedented exploration of kinksters’ community group norms and rules, analyzing the demographics along with the behavioral and attitudinal norms in—and out—of BDSM dungeons. Fennell analyzes the multiple ways kinksters construct positive and negative social status, illustrating how the social world of kinksters is frequently quite different from outsiders’ perceptions of it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-05
Mått:154 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538168769

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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.

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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.

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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