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Record Nr.

UNINA9910992771703321

Autore

Szpilka Jay

Titolo

BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland : Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire / / by Jay Szpilka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

9783031864148

303186414X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 182 p.)

Disciplina

305.3

Soggetti

Sex

Feminism

Feminist theory

Ethnology

Gender Studies

Sexuality Studies

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Sociocultural Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: BDSM in Contemporary Poland—A Question of Possibility -- 2. Through the Bedroom Door: The “Where” of Kink in Contemporary Poland -- 3. Normal People, Perverse Hobbies -- 4. Is It Torture, or Is It Being Torture? The Relationality of Kink Beyond Consent -- 5. Other Relations: Loving and Using BDSM Toys and Tools -- 6. Dis/entanglement: Evasion of Politics and the Possibility of Kink.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on extensive field research, this book analyzes the way that BDSM is practiced in contemporary Poland, and asks what social, cultural, and political conditions are necessary for BDSM to be possible to practice in the first place. Through a nuanced analysis of the way that practitioners navigate conflicting understandings and politics of kink, this book provides an alternative to Western-centric narratives of BDSM communities, and challenges a number of long-standing notions about the status kink which circulate in sexuality and queer studies.