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List Of BDSM Authors
This is a list of notable authors of fiction and/or non-fiction works about BDSM. For other notable people associated with BDSM, see List of people associated with BDSM. * Solace Ames, American author of erotic fiction * Laura Antoniou, writing as Sara Adamson, author of ''The Marketplace'' series of novels * Pablo Neruda * Go Arisue, Japanese bondage artist and author * Guy Baldwin, psychotherapist and author known for his work on BDSM and sexual related issues * Violet Blue, American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator * Gloria Brame, American sexologist, writer and sex therapist * Rachel Kramer Bussel, American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica * Patrick Califia, American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry * Casey Calvert, American pornographic actress and film director * Greta Christina, American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author * David Aaron Clark, American author, musician, pornogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BDSM
BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves to be practising BDSM, inclusion in the BDSM community or subculture often is said to depend on self-identification and shared experience. The initialism ''BDSM'' is first recorded in a Usenet post from 1991, and is interpreted as a combination of the abbreviations B/D (Bondage and Discipline), D/s (Dominance and submission), and S/M (Sadism and Masochism). ''BDSM'' is now used as a catch-all phrase covering a wide range of activities, forms of interpersonal relationships, and distinct subcultures. BDSM communities generally welcome anyone with a non-normative streak who identifies with the community; this may include cross-dressers, body modification enthusiasts, animal roleplayers, rubber fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tess Danesi
Tess Danesi is an American sex educator, blogger, and writer of BDSM erotica who conducts workshops, courses, and events. She writes for the American erotica anthology In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ... market, has contributed to Time Out New York, and has been featured in Fleshbot, a sex-oriented weblog, founded by Gawker Media. ''Fleshbot'', June 28, 2008. Books Contributor * ''Fast Girls: Erotica for Women'', Cleis Press, 2010, * ''Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission'', Cleis Press, 2011, * ''B ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Esquire'', ''The Best American Short Stories'' (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and '' The O. Henry Prize Stories'' (1998, 2008). Her books include the short story collection ''Bad Behavior'' (1988). Life Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She has lived in New York City, Toronto, San Francisco, Marin County and Pennsylvania, as well as attending the University of Michigan, where she earned her B.A. in 1981 and won a Hopwood Award. She sold flowers in San Francisco as a teenage runaway. In a conversation with novelist and short story writer Matthew Sharpe for ''BOMB Magazine'', Gaitskill said she chose to become a writer at age 18 because she was "indignant about things—it was the typical teenage sense of 'things are wrong in the world and I must say something.'" Gaitskill has also recounted (in her essay "Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maîtresse Françoise
Maîtresse Françoise (pen name Annick Foucault) is a publicly known dominatrix in Paris, France. Her autobiography was published in France by publisher Éditions Gallimard. Biography Minitel Annick Foucault was born in the South of France. Her childhood was marred by the loss of her father. After having been the victim of an accident, she consecutively had no real other alternative but dropping out of university. Thus she chiefly became a self-taught woman. She first ran a ready-to-wear shop and then became interested in Minitel, which she considered to be "an excellent means of communication, a kind of no-man's-land where anything is allowed". She subsequently participated in various forums and set up a "debate forum", 3615 Fetish, which was devoted to sadomasochism, before launching in 1994 her own specialized "minitel network", under the name of Miss M. Marc Daum described her as "a major messaging authorizing officer 3615 on behalf of a foremost player in telematics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Flanagan (performance Artist)
Bob Flanagan (December 26, 1952 – January 4, 1996) was an American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism and lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis. Biography Early life Flanagan was born in New York City on December 26, 1952 and grew up in Costa Mesa, California, with his mother, Kathy; father, Robert; brothers John and Tim; and sister, Patricia. In childhood, Flanagan was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. His sister, Patricia, died at age 21 of the same illness, which also claimed the life of second sister, who died soon after birth. At age 14, in 1967, Flanagan was named the first poster child for the North Orange County chapter of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation. Flanagan graduated from Costa Mesa High School, and studied literature at California State University, Long Beach and the University of California, Irvine. He moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Death On January 4, 1996, Flanagan died from complications of cystic fibrosis a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is an American writer and professor. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, ''Whip Smart'' (2010)'','' and the essay collections, ''Abandon Me'' (2017) and ''Girlhood'' (2021)''.'' Early life and education Febos grew up in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Her father was a sea captain, and her mother a therapist. She left home at 16 after passing the GED, moved to Boston, and worked at an assortment of jobs including as a boatyard hand and as a chambermaid. She attended night courses at Harvard Extension School, then enrolled in The New School and moved to New York City in August 1999. She later earned an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Career Febos is the author of ''Whip Smart'' (St Martin's Press 2010), a memoir of her work as a professional dominatrix while she was studying at The New School.Alyssa Fetini Friday, Inside the Secret World of a Dominatrix, Time Magazine, March 19, 2010 Her second book, the lyric essay collection ''Abandon Me'', was publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Elliott (author)
Stephen Elliott (born December 3, 1971) is an American writer, editor, and filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles who has written and published seven books and directed two films. He is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the online literary magazine ''The Rumpus''. In December 2014, he became senior editor at ''Epic Magazine''. Background and education Elliott grew up in Chicago. In his adolescence he was made a ward of the court and placed in several group homes. He attended Mather High School and the University of Illinois, and went on to receive his master's degree in cinema studies from Northwestern University in 1996. In 2001, he was awarded the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, given to emerging writers in fiction and poetry. He was then the Marsh McCall lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Elliott is Jewish on his father's side. Books and journalism Elliott went on the campaign trail and wrote a book about the 2004 U.S. presidential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ethical Slut
''The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities'' is an English language non-fiction book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy (given as pseudonym Catherine A. Liszt for the book's first edition in 1997). Content The authors define the term ''slut'' as "a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you." The term is reclaimed from its usual use as a pejorative and as a simple label for a promiscuous person. Instead, it is used to signify a person who is accepting of their enjoyment of sex and the pleasure of physical intimacy with others, and chooses to engage and accept these in an ethical and open way—rather than as cheating. ''The Ethical Slut'' discusses how to live an active life with multiple concurrent sexual relationships in a fair and honest way. Discussion topics include how to deal with the practical difficulties and opportunities in finding and keeping partners, mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dossie Easton
Dorothy "Dossie" Easton (born February 26, 1944), who has also written under the name Scarlet Woman, is an American author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California. She is polyamorous and lives in West Marin, California. Background Easton is a non-fiction author and poet. She has been a plenary or keynote speaker at many conferences, including conferences of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists ( AASECT), the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the University of Hamburg. Easton has given presentations at many colleges and universities, including University of California, Santa Cruz; Bryn Mawr College; University of California, Berkeley; Mills College; Pomona College; and San Francisco State University. Her B.A. is from New College of California, 1975; MA in Education and Counseling from University of San Francisco, 1989; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 1991, USF. Her bachelor's thesis was titled ''Sex is N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ties That Bind (novel)
''The Ties That Bind'' (french: Le lien, 1993, literally translated as ''The Link'') is the only complete novel by the French author Vanessa Duriès. The novel tells the story of Laika, a young student, who is initiated to BDSM BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged ... and then her evolution as a slave, and also of her growing love relationship with her master, Pierre. It also provides some insight into the devastating effects of the revelation of her sexual orientation on her relationship with her parents. The story is allegedly autobiographical. Publication history * ''Le lien'' (in French) - Editions J'ai lu - * ''The Ties That Bind'' (translated from the French) - Masquerade Books - References 1993 French novels BDSM literature French erotic novels Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Duriès
Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – 13 December 1993), was a French novelist. Biography She was the author of the French BDSM novel '' Le lien'' (translated into English as '' The Ties that Bind'') allegedly based on her own experience as a BDSM slave. She created quite a stir in France at the time of the release of the novel, due to her youth and beauty, and appeared on national television, in particular in the show of Bernard Pivot. She also appeared in a pictorial and an interview of the May 1993 issue of the French edition of ''Penthouse'' magazine. Duriès died in a car crash on 13 December 1993 in the South of France at age 21. Because of her early death, she has achieved a cult status for some BDSM communities. In 2007, five chapters of her second novel '' L'Étudiante'', left unfinished due to her death, were published in France. Three other people also died in the crash. The 2007 edition published in Paris by J'ai Lu Groupe Flammarion () is a Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Story Of O
''Story of O'' (french: Histoire d'O, link=no, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, and published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Desclos did not reveal herself as the author for 40 years after the initial publication. Desclos stated she wrote the novel as a series of love letters to her lover Jean Paulhan, who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade. The novel shares with the latter themes such as love, dominance, and submission. Plot ''Story of O'' is a tale of female submission involving a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer named O, who is taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse, offering herself to any male who belongs to the same secret society as her lover. She is regularly stripped, blindfolded, chained, and whipped; her anus is widened by increasingly large plugs; her labium is pierced and her buttocks are branded. The story begins when O's lover, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
