- Hardcover: 298 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc (April 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0306437708
- ISBN-13: 978-0306437700
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.5 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 722,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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}A preeminent psychoanalyst explores the world of consensual S&M. An expert on the dynamics of perversion and erotic excitement, Dr. Stoller sets out on an expedition to the S&M community of West Hollywood. We meet the highly articulate Ron, who serves as a guide to the fetishes and bizarre practices of both casual and devoted proponents of sadomasochism. We are introduced to Marilyn and Claudelle, two warmly opinionated entrepreneurs of a B&D (bondage and discipline) establishment. The arcane business of S&M videos is documented by Merlin, and enthusiastic producer of pornography. Most interesting are Dr. Stollers provocative questions to these denizens of the S&M world and his engaging musings on their answers.Like an anthropologist in New Guinea, Dr. Stoller observes the customs of these natives. He studies them in his quest for insight into the perplexing question of why some people associate pain and humiliation with intense erotic desire. Thus, his journey is not only external, but internalinto the meaning and boundaries of the term perversion and its place within the psyche. He investigates how the theater of the imagination is moved into the real worlds reverberating complexity. In the course of this journey, Dr. Stoller changes his views, first referring to these S&M practitioners as specimens and then perceiving them, in their ambiguities and contradictions, as human beings. By joining Dr. Stoller, we find not only nuances in the meanings of consensual sadomasochism but larger implications of what being human means. }
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Pain & Passion : A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S & M, 14 Nov 2000
By "livany" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pain and Passion: Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S. and M. (Hardcover)
I was hoping this book would be a little more about the Psychoanalytical theories involved in BDSM but instead this book is simple a series of interviews. Some of the interviews are interesting tibbits into small section of the BDSM world, mainly the working aspect of BDSM. I am not impressed by the selection of people who he choose to interview, and frankly don't think it reflects the life style. It does provide some insight into the life Domme who does it as a job, which manages to redeem it into having some value. Unless you are researching BDSM you really don't have a need to buy this book.
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SADOMASOCHISTIC SEX-SCRIPTS, 7 Oct 2010
By James L. Park "James Leonard Park" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pain and Passion: Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S. and M. (Hardcover)
Robert J. Stoller
Pain and Passion:
A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S & M
(New York: Plenum, 1991) 306 pages
An account of the life and work of
"bondage and discipline" clubs in California,
based on interviews with owners and workers.
Interesting raw data for further thinking and research
into sadomasochistic sex-scripts.
Why do some people derive sexual pleasure from pain
(or pretenses of pain) and humiliation?
If you are interested in discovering other unusual sexual fantasies,
search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"SEXOLOGY---SEX-SCRIPTS---BEST BOOKS".
James Leonard Park, author of
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies:
A New Key for Sexology.
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