Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities

by Lee Harrington, Mollena Williams Narrated by Joel Froomkin

Overview

While there are plenty of other books out there that explain how to give a spanking or tie a half-hitch, Playing Well With Others is the first book that explains kink culture-the munches, parties, leather bars, conferences, workshops, fetish nights, exploratoriums, and all the other gatherings of kinksters that turn BDSM and leather from a bedroom predilection to a lifestyle and a community.



You'll learn to:



¿ Examine your own motivations, needs, wants, and desires



¿ Ease your way into established communities



¿ Understand etiquette in different adventurous sex communities



¿ And more



Contains mature themes.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Harrington and Williams adeptly offer information, wisdom and insight to anyone traversing this erotic territory... One of the first books I'll recommend to fledgling kinksters." - Race Bannon, Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking

"The first book to completely address the most important steps in negotiating the brave new kink world — how to find it, pick what part you want to explore, talk to the natives and join in the fun!" — Laura Antoniou, The Marketplace series

"Plenty of resources tell you how to find your local BDSM community, but very few help you once you get there. This book is packed with tips about what to expect, how to communicate, and how to behave in different kinky situations." –Tristan Taormino, The Ultimate Guide to Kink

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170520763
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

Read an Excerpt

Introduction
Dark dungeons where chains rattle, bodies writhing in the shadows. Latex clad mistresses who entertain the most select clients who have found the one true way into their domains. Ancient traditions of leathermen passed down from man to man, available only to those willing to endure the trials of indoctrination...
It's hot porn.
If you want to keep dreaming that the world of BDSM, fetishism and kink is a scary place full of depraved taboos and grinning demons who will force you to do their bidding —
PUT THIS BOOK DOWN NOW.
Do you, instead, long to traverse and explore the many and varied gatherings within the alternative sexuality communities from a place of emotional, social, psychological and physical well-being? Then this book will help you discover the diversity of possibilities available, and make them a part of your life should you so choose. From munches to fetish balls, shopping excursions to public dungeons, fantasy retreats to intensive educational opportunities, there are many options nowadays. In your hands is a survival guide, complete with helpful tips and tricks, to support you as you explore, navigate and integrate yourself into this community, and make it your own.
Curious about kink? Or perhaps highly experienced and looking for some tips to take your journey even deeper? Ready to dive in fully, or perhaps just take a peek?
Here is a map to the terrain you hope to explore, and we are here to be your guiltless guides, your erotic assistants, your sexual Sherpas.
This is the book we wish had been around when we began our own forays from private kinky sex to public, playful and profound perversion. With so much reference material, so many websites and resources detailing how to be kinky and enjoy diverse sexualities, how exactly do we meet others of our kind? It's about time we branched out and discussed how to play well with one another, how we build community, and how to have the best chance of success in our explorations.

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