Playing Dangerous Games is a story of psychological aspects of consensual sadomasochism. It situates these issues within broader social contexts involving diversity, justice and body politics.
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From the Introduction:
This book is an open sexual story, or perhaps more specifically a small collection of stories, about my personal journey as an educator and researcher/participant into the world of consensual sadomasochism. While working on my doctorate degree, I became interested in narratives, including personal stories, as a form of research. Scholars such as Arthur Bochner, Norman Denzin, Carolyn Ellis, Laurel Richardson, Andrew Sparkes and others began advancing scholarship that included crafting personal stories as new forms of social science research. These personal accounts, or autoethnographies, can be carefully designed to show how events may be experienced, illustrate complex relations between the personal and the social, and emphasize the centrality of emotions and empathy that are necessary to understanding human lived experiences.
Stories are our natural form of human communication. They connect us with others, and we see parts of ourselves within them. Stories help us see the common ground we share with others, yet remind us how we are different. Stories as a method of research can be especially exciting, because research written as story can appeal to a much broader audience. These are all important reasons why I have written this book on sexual sadomasochism using narrative. It is an unusual research story about an unusual topic.
…Readers will be introduced to some who live a sadomasochistic lifestyle, and catch insights as to perhaps why they might desire sadomasochistic relationships. Readers will experience, vicariously, what can happen inside the dungeon of an internationally known professional Mistress. Through my personal experiences involving sadomasochism, readers will see how these experiences draw out and temporarily re-arrange different identities within a single person. Readers will also be confronted with some of the dangers of sexual sadomasochism. There are significant physical and psychological risks to sadomasochistic activities. There are life-altering social dangers, too.
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What an amazing book! I could not have anticipated how this book would open my mind to different ways of looking at people and how we share experiences. The author takes readers to new places and into the lives of people who are a lot like “us” but don’t initially appear to be so.
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