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- Gyaku-ebi: The Reverse Shrimp Tie That Arches the Back
- Spanking Positions: From Close Contact to Room to Swing
- Yukimura Haruki and the Aesthetics of Aibunawa
- Attackers: Shiyaaku Took Ryōjoku Drama off the Underground Shelf
- Art Video: Cold Documentary SM from a Concrete Storeroom
- CineMagic: SM Drama Shot with a Film Finish
- WIITWD: The Umbrella the BDSM Scene Keeps Open
- À l’aventure: Brisseau’s 2008 Film on Total Submission
- Zipperface: Leather and Politics in a 1990s B-Movie
- The BDSM Zipper: Clothespins on a Cord, Yanked Off in a Burst
- Zentai: The Full-Body Suit That Erases a Face
- Yva Richard: Fetish Mail Order in Prewar France
- The X-Frame: Structure and Use of a Classic Dungeon Piece
- WAVPM: San Francisco Anti-Porn Tactics and the Clash with Samois
- Wild Orchid: A Control Game Without Collars
- WikiFeet: A Public Archive of Celebrity Feet
- A Nightmare in Knots: Nikkatsu’s 1974 Wife to Be Sacrificed
- Who’s Your Daddy?: Dirty Talk With a Paternal Edge
- Whips in Negotiated Play: Sound, Physics, and the Limits
- Wax Play: Melt Points, Skin, and Burns That Need a Doctor
- Wasteland: Amsterdam’s Fetish Party, Berlin, and Summerfest
- The Wartenberg Wheel: A Clinic Pinwheel Used on Bare Skin
- Want You Bad: The Offspring Single That Asks Her to Be in Charge
- Walk All over Me: A 2007 Dominatrix Roommate Crime Comedy
- Vixens and Visionary: U-jin’s 1990s OVA of Bondage and Omorashi
- Violet Blue: The Name on the Passport, the Cleis Guides, and vb.ly
- Venus in Furs: Sacher-Masoch, the Contract, and Masochism
- Venus in Furs: From the Novella’s Plot to Velvet Underground Atmosphere
- Venus in Furs (1995): The Hunger Someone Learns to Use
- Venus in Furs (1969): Censorship, Cuts, and Dallamano’s Fur
- Venus in Furs (1967): Joe Marzano’s Sexploitation Footnote
- Venus in Fur: Power Flips Inside Polanski’s Black Box
- Venus Envy: The Canadian Shop Built as a Woman-Friendly Alternative
- Vanessa Duriès: Le lien, an Unfinished Student Novel, and a Crash at Twenty-One
- Vanessa Blue: From EMT Classes and Fetish Modeling to Domina X
- The Vacuum Bed: A Second Skin Shaped by the Air
- Viola Johnson, Infrastructure in the Leather Archive
- Dore Alley: San Francisco Leather’s Neighborhood Warm-Up
- Uniform Fetishism: How the Costume Assigns Rank
- Scars and Rank in the Yakuza: Twittering Birds Never Fly
- Niku Daruma: The Hired Scene That Becomes a Flesh Doll
- Trevor H. Jacques: Physics on One Side, Leather on the Other
- Trans-Europ-Express: A Train Experiment the Story Can Take Back
- Trampling Fetish: Body Weight, Feet, and Adult Consent
- Torture Garden London: Europe’s Fetish Club Night
- Tops & Bottoms: A 1999 Documentary on a BDSM Couple
- Top, Bottom, and Switch in BDSM
- Tony DeBlase: Leather Pride Flag, Drummer, and Bat Biology
- Tom’s Bar Berlin: Schöneberg Cruising, Closed 2024
- Tomi Ungerer: Children’s Books and Adult Desire
- Tom of Finland: Leather, Kake, and Gay Erotic Drawing
- Tokyo Decadence (1992): Paid SM, Humiliation, and a Pink-Film Future
- Toe Cleavage: Low Vamps, Foot Fetish, and How Much Toe a Shoe Shows
- Tilly Greene: Kink Romance from Torrid, Samhain, and Ellora’s Cave
- Tightlacing and Corset Training: Steel, Waists, and Fetish Restriction
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989): Almodóvar, Rope, and the X Rating
- Tickle Torture: Forced Laughter, Old Punishments, and Negotiated Scenes
- Tickle Fetishism: Knismolagnia, Lers, Lees, and Adult Sensation Play
- Thumbcuffs: Pocket-Size Restraints That Cut Circulation
- This Little Piggy: Family Guy’s 2015 Foot-Fetish Episode
- Thigh-High Boots: From Victorian Streets to the Fetish Wardrobe
- Theresa Berkley: The Flagellation House on Charlotte Street
- The Zero Years (2005): Closed-Room Dominance as Political Allegory
- The Whippingham Papers: A Victorian Flagellation Anthology
- The Whip and the Body (1963): Bava, the Crop, and the Ghost
- The Way of a Man with a Maid: Jack’s Snuggery and the Conversion Myth
- The Torture Garden: Octave Mirbeau’s Landscape of Cruelty
- The Torture Club: A Cute Iron Maiden 4-Koma and Its 2014 Film
- The Tool Box: San Francisco’s First SOMA Leather Bar, 1962–1971
- The Stud: Folsom Street’s Leather-Adjacent Gay Bar Since 1966
- The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh: Martino’s 1971 Giallo of Sex and Fear
- The Story of Joanna (1975): Damiano’s Golden Age SM Feature
- The Stockroom: A Los Angeles BDSM and Fetish Shop
- The Sleeping Beauty Quartet: Anne Rice’s A. N. Roquelaure Novels
- The Romance of Lust: An Anonymous Victorian Erotic Novel, 1873–1876
- The Romance of Chastisement: Victorian Flagellation and the Underground Reprint Trade
- The River Ophelia: Justine Ettler’s 1995 Novel of Power, Sex Addiction, and Sydney
- Die Klavierspielerin: Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher
- La Pianiste: Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher and the Letter That Becomes a Weapon
- The Perils of Gwendoline: Just Jaeckin and John Willie’s Softcore Adventure
- The Passion of Michel Foucault: James Miller on Leather, Power, and the Berkeley Years
- The Outcasts: A San Francisco Home for Lesbian BDSM, 1984
- The Notorious Bettie Page: Mary Harron’s Biopic of the Bondage Pin-Up
- The Night Porter (1974): Cavani, Chains, and a Vienna Reunion
- The Mysteries of Verbena House: An 1882 Birch Novel by Sala and Reddie
- The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: 1899 Flagellation Erotica in an Abolitionist Wrapper
- The Maids: Genet’s 1947 Ritual of Service, Humiliation, and a Murder That Fails
- The Maids (1975): Jackson and York in Genet’s Unfinished Murder Ritual
- The Lustful Turk: An 1828 Harem Novel of Captivity and Forced “Awakening”
- The Libertine (1968): A Widow Takes Over the Secret Kink Apartment
- The Laughing Woman (1969): Schivazappa’s Villa Thriller of Coerced Sadism
- L’Image (1956): Catherine Robbe-Grillet’s SM Novel and the Mirror Ending
- The Image (1975): Radley Metzger’s Composed Adult SM Drama
- The Hun: Bill Schmeling’s Pig-Play Fetish Art of Muscle, Leather, and Fluids
- The Hellbound Heart: Clive Barker’s 1986 Novella and the Cenobite Contract
- The Gerogerigegege: Japanese Noise from SM Clubs, Senzuri, and Extreme Editions
- The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed: Joanna Arnow’s Deadpan BDSM Comedy
- The Eulenspiegel Society (TES): First BDSM Organization in the United States
- The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966): Kōji Wakamatsu’s First Independent Pink Film
- The Eagle: Gay Leather Bars That Share a Name, Not a Franchise
- The Duke of Burgundy: Lesbian BDSM as Daily Labor
- Detroit Eagle: Leather Nightlife Inside the Menjos Complex
- The Convent School (1876): A Victorian Flagellation Book, Not a Manual
- The Comfort of Strangers (1990): Venetian Hospitality as a Hunt
- The Chambermaid Lynn: A Hotel Maid Overhears a Dominatrix
- The Bondage Master (1996): A V-Cinema Rope Detective
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant: Domination With No Rope
- The Belt (1989): Moravia, Giuliana Gamba, and the Belt as Bedroom Power
- The Backstreet: London’s East End Leather Bar from 1985 to 2022
- The Anvil: Gay BDSM After-Hours at 500 West 14th Street
- Tess Danesi: Kink Teaching Beside Cleis Press Erotica
- Lynch Law Classroom (1973): Toei Pinky Violence, Adult Actresses, Omorashi
- Terminal Avenue: Eden Robinson’s Bondage Story After Oka
- Terence Sellers, Mistress Angel Stern: Dominatrix, Writer, Fales Archive
- Temperature Play: Heat, Cold, Wax, Ice, and Fire on Adult Skin
- Teeth: Lady Gaga’s Bite, Rough Sex, and The Fame Monster
- The Tawse: Scottish School Strap, Then an Adult Impact Toy
- Tatsuji Okawa: Shinjuku Hotel Rooms and First-Wave Gay SM Art
- Swept Away (1974): Wertmüller’s Island, Class, and Unnegotiated Sex
- Sweet Gwendoline: John Willie’s Blonde, Tied, Rescued, and Tied Again
- Suspension Bondage: Partial Hangs, Full Air, and Real Injury
- S&M Hunter (1986): Shuji Kataoka’s Rope-Hero Pink Comedy
- Rope Suspension: Partial Weight, Full Air, and Harness Hang
- Super Freak: Rick James Put a Kinky Girl on Mainstream Radio
- Sunstone: Stjepan Šejić’s Comic About Lesbian D/s, Jealousy, and Saying It Out Loud
- Succubus: Jess Franco’s 1968 Nightclub, and the Dream That Stops Being an Act
- Submission: Showtime’s 2016 Mini-Series After Fifty Shades
- Submission (1976): Salvatore Samperi’s Pharmacy Scandal, Not a Club Manual
- Strict Machine: Goldfrapp Turned Lab Rats and Control into a Club Hit
- The Straitjacket in BDSM: Asylum Hardware, Fetish Gear, and Why It Is Not Set-and-Forget
- Story of O: Pauline Réage’s 1954 Love Letter, and What Leather Kept
- Histoire d’O (1975): Just Jaeckin’s Glossy Film of Réage’s Novel
- Story of O: Chapter 2 (1984): Eric Rochat Sends the Trained Slave to Work
- Stjepan Šejić: The Witchblade Artist Behind the Lesbian BDSM Comic Sunstone
- Stiletto Heels: The Dagger Under the Sole
- Steven Toushin: The Bijou, Gay BDSM Film, and the Obscenity Cases
- Stephen Elliott: Literary Masochism and the Misconduct Record
- Stefani Goerlich: Kink-Aware Therapy and the Leather Couch
- Squealer (2005): Jack the Zipper’s Backwoods Bondage Horror
- Spreader Bar: Bondage Gear That Forces the Body Open
- Spreadeagle: The Open X in Sex and Bondage
- Sportsheets: The Velcro Bed Restraint You Can Get Out Of
- Spectator Magazine: The Bay Area Sex Weekly That Left the Berkeley Barb
- Spanner Trust: The UK Fight for Consensual Adult SM
- Spanking Love (1995): Domination, Labor, and Coercion
- Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody: A Stage Musical Send-Up
- Spandex Fetishism: Second Skin, Stretch, and Light Bondage
- SouthEast LeatherFest: Atlanta’s June Leather and BDSM Weekend
- Something Leather: Alasdair Gray’s Glasgow Novel with an S&M Frame
- Solace Ames: Power-Exchange Romance That Treats Kink as Character
- Society of Janus: San Francisco BDSM Education Since 1974
- Snakes and Earrings: Hitomi Kanehara’s Novel of Tongue Splitting, Ink, and Sadomasochism
- SMJG: The German Charity That Teaches BDSM Risk to Young Adults
- Small Penis Humiliation: Verbal Domination Aimed at the Cock
- Rihanna’s “S&M”: The Loud Single That Put Chains and Whips on the Radio
- S&M Sally: The Lesbian Comedy Where Butch Doesn’t Automatically Hold the Flogger
- Sleepsack Bondage: The Full-Body Bag for a Long, Hard Hold
- Slaughter Disc: The 2005 Porn-Horror With a Transparent DVD
- Skin Two: The Fetish Magazine Named for a Second Skin
- Skin-Tight Clothes: Lycra, Latex, and the Fetish Second Skin
- Dorothy Allison’s Skin: Sex, Class, and Leather in One Breath
- Singapore Sling: Nikolaidis’s 1990 Film of a Corpse, a Cocktail, and a Closed House
- Sick: Kirby Dick’s Film of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
- Shrimp: Zelda Williams’s Short Inside a Los Angeles Dominatrix House
- Shoshanna Evers: Power-Exchange Romance in the Early Ebook Boom
- Shortbus: Sex, a Brooklyn Salon, and the 2006 Film That Would Not Behave
- Shogun’s Sadism: The 1976 Japanese Film Sold on Ox-Splitting Torture
- Sheree Rose: Photographer, Domme, and Bob Flanagan’s Partner in SM Art
- Sharon Kane: Bondage Model and Porn Performer on Both Ends of the Rope
- Sexual Roleplay: Fantasy Scripts for Adults, Not a Crime Manual
- Sex Machines: Motors That Thrust, Suck, and Do Not Get Tired
- Madonna’s Sex: The 1992 Metal Fetish Book
- Session Wrestling: Paid Private Matches With a Fetish Edge
- Service-Oriented Submission: When the Tasks Are the Kink
- Sensory Deprivation: What the Lab, the Interrogation File, and the Hood Actually Share
- Sensation Play: Arousal Through Touch, Texture, and Tease
- Self-Bondage: Solo Restraint, Release Plans, and the Risk
- Seiu Ito: The Painter Called the Father of Modern Kinbaku
- See-Through Clothing: Sheer Fabric, Fetish Display, and the Alibi of Being Dressed
- Seduction: The Cruel Woman — Wanda’s Paid Gallery of SM
- Secretary (2002): Office Spanking, Shame, and a D/s Marriage
- Seattle Eagle: Capitol Hill’s Leather Bar
- Scrotal Inflation: The Swollen Look, and the Medical Risk
- Satisfaction: Power, Performance, and Queer Life Inside House 232
- Satine Phoenix: Porn, Bondage, Comics, and the 2022 Break
- Sardax: London Femdom Drawings, Heels, and Two Books
- Sanshi Funayama: Night-Shift Drawings and a Japanese Gay SM Peak
- Sanctuary (2022): The Session Gets Renegotiated
- South of Market Leather History Alley: SOMA’s Sidewalk Memorial
- San Francisco Eagle: The SOMA Leather Bar Still Open
- Samuel Steward: Professor, Tattooist, and a Private Sex Archive
- From the Times Square Balcony to Hogg: Samuel R. Delany
- Samois: The Lesbian Feminist BDSM Group That Started a Room
- Sal Salandra: Homoerotic Embroidery, Leather, and Catholic Pictures
- Sahara Knite: Dominatrix, Porn Performer, Industry Chair
- Safeword in BDSM: The Signal That Means Stop
- Safeword: Halsey’s Pop-Punk Single About Obedience
- Safe, Sane and Consensual: What SSC Means in BDSM
- Sadopaideia (1907): Porn Novel from Masochism into Sadism
- Sadomasochism: Negotiated Pain, Humiliation, and the Clinic
- Sadism and Masochism in Fiction: From the Birch to the Contract
- Sade (2000): Benoît Jacquot’s Marquis in the Terror
- Sadao Hasegawa: Gay Erotic Art of Muscle, Myth, and Restraint
- Rule 34 (2022): A Law Student’s Desire and Negotiated Violence
- Rubber and PVC Fetishism: Second Skin and Shine
- Roy Stuart: Fetish Glamour, Taschen Books, and Erotic Film
- The Rough Sex Murder Defense Is Not Kink Ethics
- Rosa Coote: Victorian Flagellation’s Fictional Dominatrix
- Rope Bondage: Shibari, Western Ties, and Suspension Risk
- Romance (1999): Catherine Breillat’s Cold Film of Desire
- Robert Mapplethorpe: Leather, Flowers, and The Perfect Moment
- Robert J. Rubel (Dr. Bob): Master/slave Protocol and Total Power Exchange
- Robert K. Bishop: Monochrome Bondage Drawings for House of Milan
- Riverdale Avenue Books: Bronx Indie Press for Erotica and Queer Work
- RACK: Risk-Aware Consensual Kink When Nothing Is Fully Safe
- Ring of O: From Story of O to a Consensual BDSM Marker
- Richard Wolstencroft: Hellfire Club, MUFF, and the Name Richard Masters
- REX: Gay Fetish Ink, the Mineshaft, and Mail-Order Drawings
- Red Nights (2010): A French–Hong Kong Giallo of Fetish and Sadism
- Recon: Gay Fetish Dating for Leather, Rubber, and Gear
- Reba Maybury, Mistress Rebecca: Domination as Gallery Labor
- Raped on the Railway (1894): Victorian Flagellation Porn on a Train
- Randa Mai (乱田舞): Nawashi, Attackers Director, Roppongi Bar
- Ran Masaki (真咲乱): Nikkatsu’s Last SM Queen, 1985–1986
- Ramrod, West Street: The Greenwich Village Leather Bar Closed in 1980
- Rachel Kramer Bussel: Editor of Kink, Spanking, and Submission Anthologies
- R100 (2013): Matsumoto’s Year-Long Dominatrix Contract Comedy
- R v Brown: The House of Lords Case That Said Consent Does Not Excuse SM Injury
- Quim: The British Lesbian Sex Zine That Gay Bookshops Would Not Stock
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: The Poly Household Behind the Comic
- Professional Submissive: Paid Bottoming, Not a Sex Lesson
- Prison Girl (2008): A Pink Film About a Housewife’s Prison Dream
- Princess Donna: The Kink.com Director Behind Wired Pussy and Public Disgrace
- Pretty Tied Up: The Guns N’ Roses Song That Came Out of a Dominatrix’s Bedroom
- Predicament Bondage: A Tie Where Every Choice Hurts or Wears You Out
- Preaching to the Perverted (1997): Stuart Urban’s Comedy About a New York Dominatrix
- Posture Collar: A Rigid Neck Collar That Holds the Chin Up
- Poor Poor Pitiful Me: Warren Zevon’s Sunset Strip S/M Verse
- Poems and Ballads (1866): Swinburne’s Verse of Pain, Desire, and Scandal
- Play Piercing: Temporary Needles for Sensation, Not Jewelry
- Play Party: A BDSM Gathering Between a Bedroom and a Club
- Play in BDSM: Negotiation, Intensity, and the Edge of the Map
- Phyllis and Aristotle: The Medieval Tale of a Woman Riding the Philosopher
- Philosophy in the Boudoir: The Marquis de Sade’s Libertine Program
- Philipp Tanzer (Logan McCree): Leather Title, Gay Porn, and a Highland Campaign
- Peter Acworth: Founder of Kink.com and the San Francisco Armory Studio
- Personal Services (1987): Terry Jones’s Comedy of a Suburban Kink Brothel
- Outline of BDSM: Practices, Roles, Gear, and the Words People Use
- People v. Jovanovic: A New York Case on BDSM, Consent, and Email
- Patrick Conlon: Fetish Illustrator, Tranceptor, and Swarm
- Patrick Califia: Leather Writer Who Put Lesbian SM into Print
- Pat Bond and TES: The Screw Ad That Started a U.S. BDSM Organization
- Paris, France (1993): Lucy’s SM Memory and a Toronto Publishing House
- Pantyhose Fetish: Sheer Nylon, Control Tops, and Hosiery Kink
- Panic Snaps in Bondage: Release Under Load, and the Drop
- Pandora’s Box: Mistress Raven’s Chelsea Pro-Domme House
- Pam Rosenthal and Molly Weatherfield: Carrie’s Story, Safe Word, Regency Romance
- Other World Kingdom: A Commercial Femdom Theater That Called Itself a State
- Oregon State Leather Contest: Titles, Bootblacks, and Pets Since 1997
- Operation Spanner: The UK Case That Said Consent Cannot Cover SM Injuries
- Oniroku Dan: The Novelist Nikkatsu Turned into an SM Production Line
- Olympia Press: Paris, Green Covers, and the Books Anglo-American Law Would Not Print
- Olaf Odegaard: Graphite Drawings of Devils, Satyrs, and Master/Slave
- Of Freaks and Men: Balabanov’s Sepia Film of Sadean Postcards
- O Magazine: The German Fetish Title Taken from Story of O
- Nymphomaniac: Von Trier’s Two Volumes and the SM That Buys Orgasm with Damage
- Nothing Natural: Jenny Diski’s 1986 Novel of a Sadomasochistic Affair
- Not Myself Tonight: Christina Aguilera’s 2010 S&M Fashion Video
- Nose Torture in Japanese SM: Hooks, Clamps, and Breathing
- Nose Hooks in BDSM: Protocol Jewelry and Porcine Humiliation
- Noir Leather: Detroit’s Fetish Shop Since 1981
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Kinbaku, Tokyo Desire, and Power Behind the Lens
- Nipple Clamps: Tweezers, Clovers, Alligators, and Magnets
- Nine and a Half Weeks: Ingeborg Day’s 1978 Memoir of a Violent Affair
- Nights of Horror: Joe Shuster’s 1954 Fetish Comics and the Ban
- Night Terrors (1993): Tobe Hooper, Robert Englund, and a Marquis de Sade Cult
- Niggas’ Revenge (2001): Bobby Blake’s Last Film with Dick Wadd
- Neck Corset: Posture, Presentation, and What It Is Not For
- Nawashi: Japanese Rope Artists, Kinbaku, and Bakushi
- National Leather Association International: A Pansexual Leather Home Since 1986
- National Coalition for Sexual Freedom: Law, DSM, and Consenting Adults
- Nasty Pig: Leather-Bar Menswear from a West 23rd Street Apartment
- Naomi Tani: Nikkatsu’s SM Queen and the Roman Porno Years
- Nana and Kaoru: Serialization, Volumes, and Adaptations
- Namio Harukawa: Facesitting, Furniture, and the Femdom Page
- Nami Matsukawa: Nikkatsu’s Fourth SM Queen, Briefly
- My Mistress (2014): Gold Coast Shoot and Two Domme Consultants
- Muscle Worship: Strength, Touch, and Who Is Actually in the Room
- Murray and Vern: Latex from Whitworth Street to the V&A
- Elaine O’Hara: Graham Dwyer Used BDSM Language to Cover a Murder
- What a Munch Is: Food, Names, and No Play
- Mummification in BDSM: Full-Body Wrap, Heat, and an Open Airway
- Mr. Torture: Helloween’s Power-Metal Joke About a BDSM Dominant
- Mosley v United Kingdom: Strasbourg Refuses a Duty to Warn Before Publication
- Mosley v SARL Google: From London Damages to a French Search Case
- Mosley v News Group Newspapers: The Nazi Headline and a Private SM Session
- Moonlight Whispers: Fetish, Shame, and Unequal Power in a 1999 Japanese Film
- Monica Majoli: Latex, Black Mirrors, and the Psychology Around Fetish
- Mollena Williams-Haas: Consent, Race Play, and Negotiated Risk
- Mistress Matisse: The Control Tower Column on Kink, Polyamory, and Pro-Domme Work
- Mister Leather Europe: The ECMC Leatherman Title Held Each October
- Mirrors: Natalia Kills’ Disco-Pop Single and Its Dominatrix Pose
- The Mineshaft: The Members-Only Gay Leather Club at 835 Washington Street
- Tongue Tied: Miley Cyrus, Latex, and a Two-Minute Nowness Short
- Miki Takakura: Nikkatsu’s SM Queen at the Tired End of Roman Porno
- Mighty Jill Off: Anna Anthropy’s Boot-Fetish Platformer
- Midori: The Sexologist Who Wrote the First English Book on Japanese Rope
- Michael Manning: The Spider Garden, Tranceptor, and Fetish Comics
- Mercy (2000): Ellen Barkin in a Women’s Bondage Thriller
- Melt! by Siouxsie and the Banshees: Handcuffs, Discipline, 1982
- Melissa Febos: Whip Smart and the Dominatrix Memoir
- Medical Fetishism: Clinical Roleplay, Exams, and Real Risks
- Maîtresse (1975): Barbet Schroeder’s Dominatrix Film
- Maîtresse Françoise: Annick Foucault, Paris Dominatrix and Author
- Maxim Jakubowski: Crime Editor, Mammoth Erotica, Vina Jackson
- Max Mosley: FIA President, Private SM, and the False Nazi Story
- Matthias T. J. Grimme: Tatsu Otoko and the Hamburg Rope School
- Master/slave: Consensual Ownership, Not Legal Slavery
- Depeche Mode’s “Master and Servant”: The Synth Whip and the Chart
- Marvin Gaye’s “Masochistic Beauty”: A Dom Vocal After His Death
- Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty: Masochism Is Not Sadism Reversed
- Masculinization Play: Adults Taking a Masculine Role on Purpose
- Mary Gaitskill: Sadomasochism, Sex Work, and Serious Fiction
- Mary Frances Jeffries: Victorian Flagellation Houses and a Sealed Courtroom
- Marquis Magazine: German Latex, Fetish Fashion, and SM Gloss
- The Marquis de Sade: Court Files, Prison Manuscripts, and the Word Sadism
- Jess Franco’s Justine (1969): De Sade as Costume Exploitation
- Maria Beatty: Lesbian Fetish, Spanking, and Underground BDSM Film
- Mano Destra (1986): Lesbian Bondage as the Whole Film
- Mango Kiss (2004): Lesbian Comedy Inside San Francisco BDSM
- Male Submission in BDSM: Men Who Bottom, Serve, and Kneel
- Male Dominance in BDSM: Maledom, ProDom, and Who Actually Wants the Lead
- Malcolm McKesson: Ballpoint Drawings and a Private Matriarchy
- Macho Sluts: Pat Califia’s 1988 Lesbian SM Stories
- Love Me like You Do: Ellie Goulding’s Fifty Shades Ballad
- Love and Leashes (2022): A Korean Office Rom-Com with a Three-Month D/s Contract
- Lorelei Lee: From Kink.com Rope to a Cornell Law Degree
- Lord Morpheous: Rope Classes, Three Beginner Books, and a Public Suspension Show
- Universities with BDSM Clubs: Adult Student Groups, by Country
- People Associated with BDSM: Activists, Riggers, Dominatrices, and Directors
- Dominatrices in Film, Television, Games, Ads, and Comics
- BDSM Photographers: Gord, Mapplethorpe, Newton, Musafar, and Nitke
- BDSM Organizations: Education, Campaigns, and Community Groups
- BDSM Literature Timeline from Flagellation Classics to Modern SM Fiction
- BDSM Equipment: Restraints, Furniture, Gags, and Sensation Tools
- BDSM Authors from Classical Cruelty to Mass-Market Romance
- BDSM Artists: Illustration, Comics, and Kinbaku Image-Makers
- Lindi St Clair: London Madam, Dominatrix, and the Tax Office
- Limits in BDSM: Hard Stops, Soft Edges, and What Has to Be There
- Lies: A Korean Film About an Obsession Nobody Negotiated
- Lesbian Sex Mafia: A New York Network for Women in BDSM
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Venus in Furs and a Name He Refused
- BDSM Consent and the Law: “We Agreed” Is Not a Treaty
- Lee Harrington: Rope, Leather, and Sacred Kink
- Leather Subculture: Bars, Bikes, and the Old Guard Argument
- Leather Pride Flag: Tony DeBlase Left the Colors Unexplained
- Leather Archives & Museum: Chicago Kept What Families Threw Out
- Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District: San Francisco Put SOMA Leather into Law
- Le Stud: Montreal’s Leather and Bear Bar, After the Women-Out Rule
- Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake, the Ardeur, and Sex as the Plot
- Laura Antoniou: The Marketplace Novels and Structured Power Exchange
- Latex Clothing: Second Skin, Sheet Rubber, and Club Wear
- Lasting Marks: Charlie Shackleton’s Film on Operation Spanner
- Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK: Strasbourg Left the Spanner Convictions Standing
- Larry Townsend: The Leatherman’s Handbook and the Leather Notebook Years
- Ladykiller in a Bind: Christine Love’s Visual Novel of Rope, Crossdressing, and Consent
- La Prisonnière: Clouzot’s 1968 Colour Film of Bondage Photography
- La Fistinière: The Assigny Guesthouse Built for Fisting
- Koulla Kakoulli: Mistress Dometria and the Brighton Dungeon
- Knife Play: Consensual Blade Sensation, with the Injury Left in the Risk
- Kitty Tsui: Leatherwoman, Poet, and the Author of Breathless
- Kitan Club: The Postwar Magazine That Put Kinbaku on the Page
- Kink.com: Rope, Machines, and the San Francisco Armory
- KinK: The Canadian Series That Followed Real Fetish Lives
- Kink: The Word for Sex That Leaves the Vanilla Script
- Kink (2013): Christina Voros’s Documentary Inside Kink.com
- Kim Ye: From the Dungeon to the White Cube
- Sharon Lopatka: Email Was Not a Safeword
- Ken Marcus: Glamour Lighting, Rope, and a Fifty-Year Career
- Kelly + Victor: The Tap That Nobody Saw
- Kake: Tom of Finland’s Smiling Leatherman
- K3: Prison of Hell, a Specimen of German Porn-Horror
- Justine: Sade’s Novel Where Virtue Is Punished
- Justify My Love: Madonna’s Banned Hotel Video
- Junko Mabuki: Nikkatsu’s Short-Reign SM Queen
- Jugum Penis: From a Moral Clip to Kali’s Teeth
- John Willie: Bizarre, Sweet Gwendoline, and a Magazine of Fetish
- John Thompson Productions: GGG, 666, Sexbox, and a German Extreme Catalog
- John Sutcliffe and AtomAge: Leather, Rubber, and British Fetish Print
- John Preston: Mr. Benson, Leather Writing, and Pornography as a Book
- John Norman’s Gor: Kajira Fantasy, Collars, and a Subculture He Did Not Run
- Jimmy DeSana: Submission, Color, and East Village Bodies
- Jim Ward and the Gauntlet: The Shop That Made Western Piercing a Trade
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- Hellraiser (2022): Jamie Clayton’s Priest and Six Configurations
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988): Leviathan’s Labyrinth and the Photo That Wakes Pinhead
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- Hardy Haberman: Dallas Leather Educator, Author, and Filmmaker
- Happy Baby: Stephen Elliott’s 2004 Novel of Trauma and Adult SM
- Happiness in Slavery: Nine Inch Nails, Bob Flanagan, and the Banned Video
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- Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992), Pinhead Loose in the Nightclub
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- Gold Coast: Chicago’s Leather Bar, The Pit, and International Mr. Leather
- Going Under (2004): A Married Masochist and a Dominatrix Outside the Dungeon
- Go Mishima: Tattooed Macho Men, Sabu, and Japan’s First Gay SM Art
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- Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian
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- Folsom Europe: Berlin’s September Leather and BDSM Street Fair
- Flower and Snake (2004): Takashi Ishii’s Rope Thriller with Aya Sugimoto
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- Fifty Shades of Grey: The 2011 Novel, the Unsigned Contract, and the Backlash
- Fifty Shades of Grey, the 2015 Film: Contract, Red Room, Belt
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