Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries [Paperback]

Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing boundaries, playing with gender and creating new kinds of intimacies and embodiments.1. Introduction 2. The Culture of Dyke+Queer BDSM 3. Renegotiating Dyke+Queer BDSM 4. Negotiating Critical Consent 5. Exploring Exuberant Intimacies 6. Exploring and Pushing Boundaries 7. Exploring Intimate Power Dynamics 8. Exploring Intimate Difference Through Gender 9. The Sexual Politics of Exuberant Intimacy Conclusion

Beyond its important contribution to an area in BDSM Studies where our knowledge is troublingly sparse, this book is also useful for scholars working in gender studies more broadly. & Queer BDSM Intimacies is an important addition to BDSM, gender, and sexuality studies. (Brandy Simula, Sex Roles, Vol. 73 (9-10), November, 2015)

Bauer's interview partners are sophisticated and thoughtful; they are engaged citizens in their community, not blindly following what lawyers and psychiatrists say about them. Their voices are put to good use in this book when Bauer deftly uses their words as a way of negotiating the heady terrain of queer theory.

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These new sociological studies of BDSM are important not least because they will be the historical source material of the future as readers of Jon Lawrence's studies of classic postwar British sociology will know along with the usual sources that include BDSM zines, art, pornography, memoires, literature, etc. In particular, these books will act as an antidote to the portrayal of BDSM by James in her Fifty Shades books. The thorough analysis of the German dyke + queer BDSM community offered by Bauer (and the works of other sociologists of sexual subcultures) will surely encourage future historical researcl“Ò