Techniques of Pleasure

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Techniques of Pleasure is written by Margot Weiss and published by Duke University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822351595 (ISBN 10) and 9780822351597 (ISBN 13).

In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.