The Power of BDSM is an evidence-based, provocative inquiry into the ethics, culture, and intersectional identities that is revealed through the BDSM practices across geographic locations for academics, scholars, and students interested in sexualities, identities, communities, inequalities, and related topics.

Series Foreword Phillip L. Hammack Foreword Charles Moser and Peggy J. Kleinplatz Preface Brandy L. Simula, Robin Bauer, and Liam Wignall Part I Introducing BDSM Introduction: Understanding BDSM Brandy L. Simula Chapter 1: Research in BDSM: 40 Years Along Thomas S. Weinberg Chapter 2: The Role of the Internet in Research on BDSM Liam Wignall Part II Play and Practices Chapter 3: The World of Rope Bondage: Belonging, Resistance, and the "Infinite Possibilities" of Community Zoey Jones Chapter 4: Play, Performativity, and the Production of a Pup Identity in the United States Robert M. Matchett and Dana Berkowitz Chapter 5: Perverting Innocence in Age Play? Using Little Space to Explore Vulnerability, Innocence, and Discipline in Adultist Society Robin Bauer Part III Relationships and Communities Chapter 6: Navigating Dissonant Desires: Kink (In)Compatibility in Romantic Relationships Daniel Cardoso Patrícia M. Pascoal, and Rita Quaresma Chapter 7: Dispelling the Negative Perception of the BDSM Community in Johannesburg, South Africa Tracey L. McCormick Chapter 8: Kinky, Swinky, and PolyKink: Reflections on BDSM Influences on Other Sexual Communities Marla Renee Stewart Part IV Representations and Personal Reflections Chapter 9: Examining Representations of BDSM in Undergraduate Human Sexuality Textbooks: Academic and Community Perspectives Benjamin C. Graham, Tsolak M. Kirakosyan, Jessica A. Fox, and Miles Ruvabalca Chapter 10: A Record of Violence: The Continuing Criminalization of BDSM Activities Theodore Bennett Chapter 11: Dominance, Submission, and Intersectionality: The Liberatory Potential of Authority Exchange Sinclair Sexsmith Part V Ethics and Consent in the Scene and in BDSM Studies Chapter 12: The Politics of BDSM Play: Racial Dynamics and Critical Consent Amber R. Norman Chapter 13: Survivors of Sexual Victimization and the Negotiation of BDSM Play Karen Holt Chapter 14: From Pain to Healing: Kink and Communication in Sexual Assault Recovery Valerie Rubinsky, Angela Cooke-Jackson, and Alejandre Rodriguez Chapter 15: Emotions, Power, and BDSM: The Stance of the Ethnographer Charlotta Carlström Afterword Thomas S Weinberg

Brandy L. Simula (she/her/hers) is a queer feminist sociologist who studies identities, interactions, and inequalities. Her work appears in Sexualities, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Bisexuality, Sociology Compass, Social Currents, and Social Sciences. She is the lead editor of Expanding the Rainbow, the guest editor of the Gender & Identity special issue of Social Sciences, and a special issue of Sexualities on BDSM. Robin Bauer (he/him/his or they/them/theirs) is a professor for Epistemology and Theories of Difference at the Faculty of Social Work, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany. He has published widely in the fields of transgender studies, BDSM, sexuality, non-monogamies, queer theory, and queer-feminist science studies and epistemology. His work has been published in Sexualities, NORMA, WSQ, Graduate Journal of Social Science, Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, Journal für Psychologie and Cahiers du Genre and in numerous edited volumes. His book, Queer BDSM Intimacies, was published by Palgrave in 2014. Liam Wignall (he/him) is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Brighton. He explores the identities and experiences of non-heterosexual individuals related to kink, BDSM, and fetishes; pornography consumption; drag subcultures; non-exclusive sexualities; and sexual consent. He draws on theories from psychology, sociology and cultural studies, focusing on the impact of the internet and the role of community participation for these individuals. His work has been published in Archives of Sexual Behavior; Journal of Sex Research; Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity; and Psychology & Sexuality. He is currently editor for the Psychology of Sexualities Review, and Associate Editor for Psychology & Sexuality, and the Journal of Positive Sexuality. His book, Kinky in the Digital Age, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

Selling point: Explores the nuances of how consent is constructed, negotiated, and practices in BDSM communities, turning a critical lens on the ways that consent processes are enacted in BDSM communities Selling point: Applies an intersectional approach to understanding how BDSM shapes and is shaped by other identities and experiences including gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age, and others Selling point: Focuses on specific identities and practices, disaggregating the distinct experiences and subcultures often subsumed under the broader BDSM umbrella