Binding and Unbinding Kink: Pain, Pleasure, and Empowerment in Theory and Practice

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This book is a collection of essays highlighting different disciplinary, topical, and practical approaches to the study of kink and popular culture.  The volume is written by both academics and practitioners, bringing the essays a special perspective not seen in other volumes. Essays included examine everything from Nina Hartley fan letters to kink shibari witches to kink tourism in a South African prison. The focus is not just on kink as a sexual practice, but on kink as a subculture, as a way of living, and as a way of seeing popular culture in new and interesting ways. Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors Chapter 1: Preface and Introduction Part I: Contextual Kink Chapter 2: “A Man’s Right to be a Slave”: Race, Ethnicity, and History in Mr. Benson Black Tops, White Bottoms, and Abraham Lincoln Defining Perversion References Chapter 3: “Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls”: Kink and Queer Becoming in Contemporary Intersex Narratives Introduction: Queer Visibility, Queer Legibility Sex, Kink, and Bio-Power Intersex: A History Middlesex Annabel References Chapter 4: “I’m straight, right?”: Submission, Pegging, and Coprophilia in Nina Hartley’s Fan Mail Archive Introduction BDSM Fantasy Letters in the Nina Hartley Fan Archive Coprophagia, Urophagia, & Pegging Analysis of the Letters A Pornography Fan’s Letter and Its Implications Truth and Self-Transformation Pornography as Adult Fairy Tales Conclusion References Chapter 5: Translation is a Rope References Part II: Media Kink Chapter 6: ‘When I lose my virginity, I want to be on my period’: Kink, Abjection, and Female Adolescent Sexuality in Contemporary Cinema The Threat of the Natural The Menace of Menarche Abject Sex Play and Fantasy as Agency Kink as Deviance and Ritualism Conclusion References Chapter 7: Bound to Capitalism: The Pursuit of Profit and Pleasure in Digital Pornography Sexual Assemblages Web 2.0 and Digital Pornography A Kinky Case Study Work and Pleasure Post Kink? References Chapter 8: Speculum and Stirrups: Medicine, Power, Transgression, and Kink in Online Gyno-Pornography The Seductive Patient: Consensual Gyno-pornography Forced Treatment: Non-Consensual and Transnational Gyno-pornography References Chapter 9: Fifty Shades of a Moral Panic! References Part III: Living Kink Chapter 10: Visions of Femdom, Old and New The Difference Between Femdom and Pro Dom Gender and Sexism in Femdom Fucking with Femdom References Chapter 11: Costumes, Power, and Excess: The Kink of Neo-Burlesque Styles of Neo-Burlesque The Kink Connection Exercising Power Confounding of Identities, Carnivalesque, and (Dis)Identification References Chapter 12: Wicked Knots: Kinbaku, Witchcraft, and Kinky Liberation The First Rope: Japanese Kinbaku The Second Rope: Western Witchcraft and Satanic Feminism Binding the Knot: Queer Satanic Kinbaku References Chapter 13: Playing with Dirt: Further Notes on Mundanity and Kink References Chapter 14: “A Mistress, Her Slave, and Their Queen: Black Leatherwomen and the Networked Family.” Index