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Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism

Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism

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Publication Date: November 8th, 2007
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9780230517745
Pages:
310
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Description

Psychological and medical perspectives on sadomasochism have historically been concerned with understanding it as a form of psychopathology. In the past (but still often today) studies of S/M have been concerned with extreme and most often non-consensual acts. However, more recently there has been growing interest in exploring the meaning of S/M in non-pathological ways. This book directly addresses this development, presenting some of the most recent cutting edge work on S/M by leading international scholars who all seek to understand rather than pathologise. This includes the latest thinking on theory and practice, academic-community pieces, as well as the presentation of new empirical findings across the range of identities and practices that constitute S/M.

About the Author

ROBIN BAUER Lecturer in Gender and Science Studies and Queer Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany ANDREA BECKMANN Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Lincoln, UK ROBERT V BIENVENU II Team Leader of the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities and Chair of the CARAS Research Advisory Committee, USA ERIC CHALINE a PhD candidate, London South Bank University, UK GRANT DENKINSON calls himself male, bisexual and polyamorous LISA DOWNING is Chair of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), University of Exeter, UK DOSSIE EASTON one of the most prolific writers on the subject of SM CAMELIA GUPTA is a mental health worker, independent researcher and journalist WILLIAM HENKIN is a licensed psychotherapist and a board certified sex therapist ALESSANDRA IANTAFFI is an active researcher and lecturer in the fields of diversity, inclusion, identities and research theories and methodologies PEGGY J. KLEINPLATZ Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada CHARLES MOSER is Chair, Department of Sexual Medicine, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, USA KATHY SISSON, MA is an independent scholar in California, USA SOPHIA is polyamorous, bisexual and identifies as a switch RICHARD A SPROTT Executive Director of the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities, and Lecturer, Department of Human Development, California State University, USA MATTHEW WEAIT Senior Lecturer in Law and Legal Studies, Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK