It's Not About the Whip: Love, Sex, and Spirituality in the BDSM Scene [Paperback]

Sensuous Sadie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2006

My columns offer a friendly and intimate portrait of the Dominant/submissive lifestyle from someone on the inside. They focus on my expiences - from coming out, to dating, to particular interests such as sadism.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

    Sensuous Sadie is a BDSM columnist and edits SCENEsubmissions, an online newsletter focusing on BDSM and spirituality. She founded Rose & Thorn, Vermont's first BDSM group in 1999 and led the group until March of 2002. She now devotes her time to writing, both for her columns and her series of interviews with scene personalities called SCENEprofiles.

    Sadie lives in northern Vermont and has a great passion for its beautiful Green Mountains. She is an avid portrait photographer, works out religiously and spoils her cat Spencer, who she describes as "not remotely submissive."

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412001838
• ISBN-13: 978-1412001830
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,870,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get to know someone kinky, September 15, 2003

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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It's Not About the Whip: Love, Sex, and Spirituality in the BDSM Scene (Paperback)

This is a collection of 54 columns written by Sensuous Sadie. The vast majority of these are very personal, dealing with her kink, her experiences, and her feelings. Only a few are really about topics of general information and even these are based on her experiences. Overall if you know who Sadie is and have enjoyed her online columns this book is a good way to catch up. If you aren't familiar with her, you'll get to be as you read. I really wish the entire book were organized chronologically instead of by subject because I think that would make our journey into her mind more powerful.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a personal journal more than a book, August 14, 2007

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Kitty "Lady Ace" (Franklin Park, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: It's Not About the Whip: Love, Sex, and Spirituality in the BDSM Scene (Paperback)

I got this hopeing it would give me some insight into the spritual side of bdsm, not the case with this book. Basically it is a journal of her own experiences, and not even her personal spiritual insight, which I am sure has interest to some but not what I thought it was going to be.

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, August 11, 2007

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Mark Noble - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: It's Not About the Whip: Love, Sex, and Spirituality in the BDSM Scene (Paperback)

A series of reprinted columns that make occasional titilating reading but more often cursory discussion of topics and disjointed reading. The title was the best part of this book.