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Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire
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The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with we covet a Birkin bag; we keep trainers box-fresh. We are, in a sense, all fetishists. But occasionally this desire spills into something more subversive. SECOND SKIN offers a tour through the materials, objects and power dynamics commonly fetishised, unpacking their histories, their expressive potential, and the communities they give rise to. Drawing from her encounters with fellow fetishists and kinksters, it is also the story of Anastasiia Fedorova's own of what it means to come to terms with one's sexuality. Brave and searching, Second Skin reveals how what we deem 'taboo' is never static, while do we have the courage to look at these desires directly, and express them unapologetically?
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"Interweaves vivid personal experience and interviews with fascinating historical research ..."
"Second Skin is more sociological than sexy; more anthropological than animalistic."
"In this, she's wonderfully persuasive; less convincing is her proposal that fetishists have some kind of empowered relationship to the material world."
"Enlightening and at times amusing ..."
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