NOTES
1. Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Mary Dalwood, trans. (San Francisco: City Lights, 1986), 167.
2. William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert C. Kolodny, Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving (New York: Little, Brown, 1985), 275.
3. Nancy Friday, Men in Love, Male Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love over Rage (New York: Dell, 1980), 485.
1. Alex Comfort, “Deviation and Variation,” in Variant Sexuality: Research and Theory, ed., Glenn D. Wilson, 1–20 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 2.
2. Arno Karlen, Sexuality and Homosexuality: A New View (Norton: New York, 1973), 191.
3. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert Hurley, Volume I: An Introduction (New York: Vintage, 1980), passim.
4. Edgar Gregersen, Sexual Practices: The Story of Human Sexuality (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), 31.
5. G. Rattray Taylor, Sex in History (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1973), 214.
6. Karlen, Sexuality and Homosexuality, 165.
7. Suzanne G. Frayser, and Thomas J. Whitby, Studies in Human Sexuality: A Selected Guide (Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1987), 227.
8. Charles Moser, “Sadomasochism,” in The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping, ed., Dennis M. Dailey (New York: Harrington Park, 1988), 45.
9. Victor Robinson, “Introduction,” in Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study by Richard von Krafft-Ebing (New York: Pioneer, 1947), iv.
10. Gregersen, Sexual Practices, 122–123.
11. John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 185.
12. June M. Reinisch and Ruth Beasley, The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex, ed. Debra Kent (New York: St. Martin’s, 1990), xviii.
13. Cf. Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Why Do We Know So Little About Sex?” Discover: The World of Science (June 1992), 30.
14. Money, Gay, Straight, 153.
15. Guy Baldwin. “Old Guard: Its Origins, Traditions, Mystique and Rules,” Drummer 150, 23.
16. Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (New York: Ballantine, 1966), 116.
17. Larry Townsend, The Leatherman’s Handbook II (New York: Carlyle, 1989), 13–14.
18. George Nelson, Living in Leather V Program Guide (Portland, OR: National Leather Association, 1990).
19. Geoff Mains, Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1984), 175.
20. Gayle Rubin, “The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M,” in Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M, ed. SAMOIS, (Boston: Alyson, 1987), 220–221.
1. Pat Califia, Macho Sluts (Boston: Alyson, 1988), 9.
2. Townsend, Handbook II, 19.
3. Katherine Davis, “What We Fear We Try to Keep Contained,” in Coming to Power: Writing and Graphics on Lesbian S/M, ed. SAMOIS (Boston: Alyson, 1981), 8.
1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (New York: Modern Library, 1945), 16.
2. Califia, Macho Sluts, 26.
3. Gini Graham Scott, Erotic Power: An Exploration of Dominance and Submission (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1983).
1. William Shakespeare, The Sonnets, eds. Douglas Bush and Alfred Harbage (Baltimore: Penguin, 1974), 78.
2. Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Background and Sources, Essays in Criticism. Edited and translated by Paul De Man. New York: Norton, 1965.
1. Townsend, Handbook II, 256.
1. As cited in Thompson, Hell’s Angels, 335.
2. Terence Sellers, The Correct Sadist: A Novel (New York: Grove, 1983), 89.
1. Pauline Réage, Story of O, trans. Sabine d’Estree (New York: Ballantine, 1980), 15.
1. Quoted in Taylor, Sex in History, 250.
2. Magnus Hirschfeld, Sexual Anomalies: The Origins, Nature, and Treatment of Sexual Disorders (New York: Emerson, 1956), 333.
3. Charles Moser, “Sadomasochism,” in The Sexually Unusual, 43–56.
4. Moser, “Sadomasochism,” in The Sexually Unusual, 46.
5. Richard M. Restak, The Mind (New York: Bantam, 1988), 131.
6. Rousseau, Confessions, 13.
1. Spider Robinson, Mindkiller (New York: Berkley, 1983), 48.
2. Comfort, “Deviation and Variation,” 13.
3. Cf. Edgar Gregersen, Sexual Practices, 232.
4. Comfort, “Deviation and Variation,” 15.
5. Christopher C. Gosselin, “The Sadomasochistic Contract,” in Variant Sexuality: Research and Theory, ed. Glenn D. Wilson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 233.
6. The “Harmony Philosophy” is regularly featured in the magazines of Harmony Communications, Los Angeles. Our source was The Adventures of Lady Caroline, Part Two, April 1988, 16.
7. Gosselin, “The Sadomasochistic Contract,” 233.
8. Gosselin, “The Sadomasochistic Contract,” 233.
1. Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot, trans., The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (New York: Berkley, 1966), 112.
2. June M. Reinisch and Ruth Beasley, The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex, ed. Debra Kent (New York: St. Martin’s, 1990), 162.
3. Hirschfeld, Sexual Anomalies, 301.
1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed, Constance Garnett trans. (New York: Modern Library, 1936), 703–704.
2. Taylor, Sex in History, 246.
3. Gregersen, Sexual Practices, 303.
4. Taylor, Sex in History, 43.
5. Taylor, Sex in History, 44–5.
6. Karlen, Sexuality and Homosexuality, 107.
7. Cf. Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987).
8. Hirschfeld, Sexual Anomalies, 301.
1. Anais Nin, Delta of Venus: Erotica (New York: Bantam, 1979), 28.
2. G. L. Simons, The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records (New York: Delilah, 1974), 50.
1. W. B. Yeats, “Adam’s Curse,” in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd ed., ed. Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair (New York: Norton, 1988), 148.
2. V. Vale and Andrea Juno, ed., RE/Search: Modern Primitives, (San Francisco: RE/Search, 1989), 5.
3. Burton and Arbuthnot, The Kama Sutra, 217.
4. Ovid, The Art of Love and Other Love Books of Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (New York: Grosset, 1959), 175–176.
5. R. Brasch, How Did It Begin? (New York: Pocket, 1969), 124.
1. Wilhelm Stekel, Sexual Aberrations: The Phenomenon of Fetishism in Relation to Sex, Samuel Parker, trans. (New York: Liveright, 1971), 223.
2. Vale and Juno, Modern Primitives, 29.
3. B.R. Creations, Newsletter #34.
4. B.R. Creations, Newsletter #34.
5. Vale and Juno, Modern Primitives, 30.
6. B.R. Creations, Newsletter #34, 1.
7. B.R. Creations, Newsletter #34.
1. Vale and Juno, Modern Primitives, 114.
2. Signatures of the Soul (film), Geoff Steven, writer, director, producer, Peter Fonda, narrator; released by Forum Home Video, 1987.
3. Vale and Juno, Modern Primitives, 193.
4. Vale and Juno, Modern Primitives, 126.
1. Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo, A. J. Krailsheimer, trans. (London: Penguin, 1979) 52.
2. Townsend, Handbook II, 275.
3. Burton and Arbuthnot, The Kama Sutra, 217.
4. Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing (Marietta, GA: Long-street, 1990), 210.
5. Hirschfeld, Sexual Anomalies, 377.
1. Nin, Delta of Venus, 47.
2. Stekel, Sexual Aberrations, 82.
3. Cf. Stekel, Sexual Aberrations.
4. Money, Gay, Straight, 183.
5. Thomas O. Sargent, “Fetishism,” in The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping, ed. Dennis M. Dailey, 27–42 (New York: Harrington Park, 1988), 32.
6. Money, Gay, Straight, 183.
7. Sargent, “Fetishism,” 29.
1. Bruno Schulz, Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Celina Wieniewska, trans. (New York: Penguin, 1979), 39.
2. George Orwell [Eric Blair], 1984 (New York: Signet, 1961), 220.
1. Richard Ellmann, ed., Selected Letters of James Joyce (New York: Viking, 1975), 183.
2. Stekel, Sexual Aberrations, 73.
1. Karlen, Sexuality and Homosexuality, 373.
2. Edward Tripp, ed., The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology (New York: NAL, 1970), 547.
3. Charles Panati, Panati’s Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody (New York: Harper, 1989), 294.
4. Vaclav Pinkava, “Logical Models of Variant Sexuality,” in Variant Sexuality: Research and Theory, ed. Glenn D. Wilson, 116–141. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 1987), 118–119.
1. Classified advertisement, S&M News, vol. 1, no. 4, 1991.
1. Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal et Autres Poemes (Paris: Garnier-Flammerion, 1964), 50. English translation of passage by Gloria Brame, 1992.
2. D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (New York: Viking, 1969), 192.
3. Roland Barthes, “The World of Wrestling,” in A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag (New York: Hill & Wang, 1982), 18.
4. Excerpted from Amazons International, 12, May 1992.
5. Amazons International.
6. Craig Vetter, “That’s Me on Top, Helpless!” Playboy, June 1974, 235.
7. John Preston, Entertainment for a Master (Boston: Alyson, 1986), 25.
1. Wilhelm Stekel, Patterns of Psychosexual Infantilism (New York: Grove, 1959), 44.
2. Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume V. (Philadelphia: Davis, 1928), 50.
3. Gerald and Caroline Greene, S-M: The Last Taboo (New York: Grove, 1974), 189.
1. Stekel, Psychosexual Infantilism, 224.
2. Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 56.
3. Townsend, Handbook II, 225.
4. Townsend, Handbook II, 225.
1. Panati, 268.
2. Townsend, Handbook II, 168.
3. Panati, Extraordinary Endings, 268.
4. Panati, Extraordinary Endings, 269.
5. Stekel, Psychosexual Infantilism, 41.
6. Stekel, Psychosexual Infantilism, 41.
7. Panati, Extraordinary Endings, 269.
8. Townsend, Handbook II, 167.
9. Ellis, Psychology of Sex, 63.