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A Psychodynamic Approach to Female Domination in BDSM Relationships: Sexuality Between Pleasure and Work

A Psychodynamic Approach to Female Domination in BDSM Relationships: Sexuality Between Pleasure and Work

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Business GeneralHealth GeneralSexuality

ISBN10: 103219295X
ISBN13: 9781032192956
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This ground-breaking book explores contemporary forms of BDSM where women dominate in relationships and professions, opening new paths for psychological research in commercial and non-commercial BDSM.

Based on a unique combination of qualitative investigation and academic research, it examines how BDSM has often crystalized conflicts in contemporary feminist debates, where sexually dominant women are pictured either as victims or as agents of resistance to the patriarchy. Nathalie Lugand argues that female domination in heterosexual BDSM is above all situated in a continuum structured by the values of care and by the circulation of money. Through a novel psychodynamic approach, Lugand demystifies BDSM relationships where women dominate, considering the impact of social relations of work in the construction of sexual identity and analyzing the difficulties that they cause in the erotic economy. The book affirms that to better understand the pleasure taken in female domination practices and the difficulties for women to impose themselves as dominatrixes, it is necessary to shift the focus away from transgressive aspects and look towards the workplace and the organisation of work in women's sexuality.

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