SF: Please Scream Quietly Book Launch

Book Launch: Please Scream Quietly

After the signing, the party will continue around the corner at the Cat Club for PlayXLand (starting at 9 pm). Stick around for a bondage performance from the author!

In Please Scream Quietly, professor and self-identified kinkster Julie Fennell offers an intimate, nuanced, and engaging portrayal of the lives and loves of a BDSM community. In this first-of-its-kind collective autobiography of the frequently misunderstood and often maligned BDSM subculture, Fennell’s insider perspective shows that while most people are a little bit kinky, the BDSM community teaches its members to emphasize and cherish their kinky differences. Drawing from interviews, survey data, and years of observations, kinksters’ lives and loves are showcased in a captivating, vibrant, and authoritative story. Fennell addresses questions such as, How do kinksters define their identities? How do BDSM community members construct socially meaningful identities for themselves? Are BDSM identities always experienced as sexual? How are kinky relationships and consensual non-monogamy/polyamory experienced in the community? Fennell provides an unprecedented exploration of kinksters’ community group norms and rules, analyzing the demographics along with the behavioral and attitudinal norms in—and out—of BDSM dungeons. Fennell analyzes the multiple ways kinksters construct positive and negative social status, illustrating how the social world of kinksters is frequently quite different from outsiders’ perceptions of it.

*Author:*

Julie Fennell, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Gallaudet University. Her research primarily focuses on gender and sexuality. Better known in the BDSM scene as IPCookieMonster (fet) and Slut.PhD (instagram), she has been studying kinksters and their ways for more than a decade. In kinkland, she teaches a wide range of classes about topics such as polyamory, rope bottoming, femdom, and switching. Check out her blog, slutphd.com, to read more of her writings about kink and poly life, as well as to enjoy some of her erotica.