Feb 132011
Samuel Pepys, who was always pretty frank about his moral lapses and erotic urges, recounts buying the French classic “whore dialogue” L’Ecole des Filles, reading it and burning it. You can detect a binge-purge cycle at work.
The History of BDSM
Documenting my research in the history of consensual sadomasochism
A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism
