Introduction to the special issue: BDSM Studies

Baker AC (2018) Sacred kink: Finding psychological meaning at the intersection of BDSM and spiritual experience. Sexual and Relationship Therapy 33(4): 440–453.

Bauer R (2008) Transgressive and transformative gendered sexual practices and white privileges: The case of the dyke/trans BDSM community. Women’s Studies Quarterly 36(3/4): 233–253.

Bauer R (2014) Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bauer R (2018) Bois and grrrls meet their daddies and mommies on gender playgrounds: Gendered age play in the les-bi-trans-queer BDSM communities. Sexualities 21(1–2): 139–155.

Beckmann A (2007) The ‘Bodily Practices’ of consensual ‘SM,’ spirituality and ‘Transcendence’. In: Langdridge D Barker M (eds) Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.104–124.

Carlström C (2018) BDSM, interaction rituals and open bodies. Sexuality and Culture 22(1): 209–219.

Carmack HJ DeGroot JM Quinlan MM (2015) “A View From the Top”: Crafting the male “Domdentity” in domestic discipline relationships. Journal of Men’s Studies 23(1): 63–78.

Cruz A (2015) Beyond black and blue: BDSM, internet pornography, and black female sexuality. Feminist Studies 41(2): 409–436.

Cruz A (2016a) The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Cruz A (2016b) Playing with the politics of perversion: Policing BDSM, pornography, and black female sexuality. Souls 18(2–4): 379–407.

DeGroot JM Carmack HJ Quinlan MM (2015) ‘Topping from the Bottom’: Relational convergence of meaning in domestic discipline relationships. Sexuality & Culture 19: 85–102.

Fanghanel A (2020) Asking for it: BDSM sexual practice and the trouble of consent. Sexualities 23(3): 269–286.

Fennell J (2018) ‘It’s All About the Journey’: Skepticism and spirituality in the BDSM subculture. Sociological Forum 33(2).

Hammers C (2014) Corporeality, sadomasochism, and sexual trauma. Body & Society 20(2): 68–90.

Hammers C (2019) Reworking trauma through BDSM. Signs 44(2): 491–514.

Hebert Deshotels T Forsyth CJ Earwood S , et al. (2019) For HE tells me so: Techniques of neutralization applied to Christian domestic disicpline. Deviant Behavior 40(6): 732–751.

Jobson R (2020) Giving in: Chronic pain, BDSM, and crip/queer Utopia. MA Thesis, Carleton University, Canada.

Kaak A (2016) Conversational phases in BDSM pre-scene negotiations. Journal of Positive Sexuality 2: 47–52.

Kattari SK (2015) ‘Getting It’: Identity and sexual communication for sexual and gender minorities with physical disabilities. Sexuality & Culture 19(4): 882–899.

Klement KR Lee EM Ambler JK , et al. (2017) Extreme rituals in a BDSM context: The physiological and psychological effects of the ‘Dance of Souls’. Culture Health & Sexuality 19(4): 453–469.

Kuzmanovic D (2018) Queer race play: Kinky sex and the trauma of racism. In: Wright K (ed) Disgust and Desire: The Paradox of the Monster. Boston, MA: Brill, pp.71–88.

Labrecque F Potz A Larouche E , et al. (2020) What is so appealing about being spanked, flogged, dominated, or restrained? Answers from practitioners of sexual masochism/submission. Journal of Sex Research. Epub ahead of print 2 June. DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1767025.

Langdridge D Barker M (2007) Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives in Sadomasochism. New York, NY: Palgrave.

Langdridge D Lawson J (2019) The psychology of puppy play: A phenomenological investigation. Archives of Sexual Behavior 48(7): 2201–2215.

Lawson J Langdridge D (2020) History, culture and practice of puppy play. Sexualities 23(4): 574–591.

Liang M (2020) Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire. Sexualities. Epub ahead of print 28 October. DOI: 10.1177/1363460720964063.

Lindenmann D (2011) BDSM as therapy? Sexualities 14(2): 151–172.

Moser C Kleinplatz P (2006) Introduction: The state of our knowledge on SM. Journal of Homosexuality 50(2/3): 1–15.

Musser AJ (2014) Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Newmahr S (2010) Rethinking kink: Sadomasochism as serious leisure. Qualitative Sociology 33: 313–331.

Plante R (2006) Sexual spanking, the self, and the construction of deviance. Journal of Homosexuality 50(2/3): 59–79.

Sagarin B Lee E Klement K (2015) Sadomasochism without sex? Exploring the parallels between BDSM and extreme rituals. Journal of Positive Sexuality 1: 50–55.

Scofield B (2004) The meeting of the erotic and the spiritual in the sexual theatre of bondage, dominance and sadomasochism. Sexuality and Disability 22(4): 219.

Sheff E Hammers C (2011) The privilege of perversities: Race, class, and education among polyamorists and kinksters. Sexuality and Psychology 2(3): 198–223.

Sheppard E (2018) Using pain, living with pain. Feminist Review 120(1): 54–69.

Simula B (2019) Power, pain, and pleasure: A review of the literature on the experiences of BDSM participants. Sociology Compass 13(3): 1–24.

Smith JG Luykx A (2017) Race play in BDSM porn: The eroticization of oppression. Porn Studies 4(4): 433–446.

Thomas JN (2020) BDSM as trauma play: An autoethnographic investigation. Sexualities 23(5/6): 917–933.

Tildenberg K Paasonen S (2019) Littles: Affects and aesthetics in sexual age-play. Sexuality & Culture 23(2): 375–393.

Weiss M (2011) Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Wignall L McCormack M (2017) An exploratory study of a new kink activity: ‘Pup Play’. Archives of Sexual Behavior 46: 801–811.

Williams DJ Prior E (2015) “Wait, Go Back, I Might Miss Something Important!”: Applying leisure 101 to simplify and complicate BDSM. Journal of Positive Sexuality 1: 63–69.

Williams DJ Prior E Alvarado T , et al. (2016) Is bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism recreational leisure? A descriptive exploratory investigation. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 13(7): 1091–1094.