Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player [Paperback]

Joseph W. Bean (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1881943054 | ISBN-13: 978-1881943051 | Publication Date: 1994 | Edition: Copyright 1994

Everyone wants a more interesting and fulfilling erotic life. With that in mind, this book was written to give guidance to one popular style of erotic play which the author calls "leathersex"-sexuality that may include S/M, bondage, dominance, submission, fantasy, role playing, sensual physical stimulation, and fetish, to name just a few. If you are simply curious about leathersex, or if you already enjoy its pleasures but want to learn more, this book is for you!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Bean is a deeply established teacher in the leather canon, and this is definitely the best of bedside Bean! -- Jack Fritscher, PhD, author of Some Dance to Remember: A Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982, and Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera.

Joseph Bean's work has been absolutely fundamental in our understanding of sexual diversity. -- Mark Thompson, editor of Leatherfolk

Leathersex has a wealth of practical information to guide the novice as well as the experienced player to deeper understanding. -- Justin Tanis, author of Transgendered Theology, Ministry and Communities of Faith and newsletter editor of the Leather Archives & Museum

From the Author

Allow me to tell you something about myself which may help you to decide whether this book can have any value for you: I have recently undertaken the mastery of a new slave. The months or years ahead are to be devoted to his training. This means I will guide him into behaviors and states where his service to me provides me with a comfortable, convenient, erotically challenging and completely satisfying life. He will do anything I ask. He will take care of my home and my body. He will be beaten and tortured. He will provide me with sex, and see that is emotionally safe and physically easy for me to do whatever I choose, even if that means flogging others or having sex with them. We share the burden of the life we are embarking upon, even if the scales seem very much tipped in my favor.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 217 pages
• Publisher: Daedalus Publishing Company; Copyright 1994 edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881943054
• ISBN-13: 978-1881943051
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #79 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Nonfiction > Sexuality

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent enyclopedia for leathermen of all levels, March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player (Paperback)

Joseph Bean does an outstanding job of explaining, demystifying and clarifying many aspects of BDSM. It is from a gay male perspective and would probably not be of tremendous interest to hets or lesbians, but gay & bi/pansexual bio- & transmen should thoroughly enjoy Bean's work, no matter what their level of involvement in BDSM. He covers a wide variety of topics ranging from leather to bondage, BDSM relationships to finding partners, play parties to tools, etc. Plus Bean focuses on the importanct of the safe, sane & consensual principles. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Words for thought in the novice or experienced mind., February 23, 2002

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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player (Paperback)

It can be difficult to balance between talking down to those who will feel they have a lot of experience in BDSM and tallking over those who are just learning about BDSM. This book does a good job of looking at a wide range of activities and interests, some of them for the first time, so that newbies can feel grounded while advanced kinky folk can mull over the concepts. Even though the book grew out of Bean's own journey toward becoming a master, I think the book can speak to anyone regardless of vanilla sexual orientation. However the book often reads more like it is geared toward the bottom or submissive partner in a relationship.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This should be part of your Core Library holdings in BDSM, January 11, 2007

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Bill Cunningham (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player (Paperback)

This is a "foundation book." A "must read." Joseph, one of the select few who have shaped the Leather culture in this country, wrote this timeless book in part so that those not (yet) involved in the Leather culture could develop a better understanding of what it is and how it works. But it is also intended for those of us who have some years of experience, here. For this book batches and sorts in ways that help us better to uderstand others with slightly different kinks. His chapter organizations are inspired and his writing style is easy to follow. As I've said: a "must read."