Tag: Cosmopolitan Sexualities

Before ‘Spanner’: A Sociologist Struggles to Make Sense of ‘Sadomasochism’ in the 1970s

  Recently, I gave a talk on some of my very early work on BDSM at a conference at Essex. The conference was Remembering Operation Spanner: Culture, Law, History and Crime Conference 10-11th September 2015 Here is the abstract: In this talk I will return, rather disturbingly, to research conducted in another time (the 1970’s)…

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