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.
Author(s): Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 289
City: Cham
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
