Kink

Kink

Have you ever wondered what happens the first time someone with a sexual fetish shares it with their lover?
What is it, exactly, that makes a person need that trigger to get them going?
How do kinks affect relationships?
How does one partner suss out another?
And perhaps most importantly...
How do you cope with the laundry?

Turned on by something unusual? Writer seeks interview subjects for ultra-confidential research into sexual interests. Call Sandra.

From bondage parties and peeping toms, to plushies and foot worshippers... and beyond. This is one woman's sometimes mind-boggling, most hilarious, always fascinating investigation into sexual kinkiness in the 'burbs... from the perspective of, and for the eyes of, the NON-kinky.

The idea originated in the pub (as many great ideas do), Stephanie and a friend were enjoying a natter over a glass of wine when the question came up...
"What happens the first time someone with a sexual fetish raises it in a relationship?"
Entirely rhetorical, a couple of girls having a fun conversation about how the other half live... or it would have been if Stephanie wasn't a journalist whose interests had been well and truly piqued.

Cue an ad in the local paper and Kink was born. Stephanie guides us through the suburban sex parties, town house bordellos, binoculored voyeurs, pierced perverts and proud pee-ers of our own neighbourhoods as she explores Kink from a straight perspective, with a particular focus on the practicalities (Don't the sheets get dirty? How do you hide welts from your wife? How do you receive a catheter through a cock piercing?) and a fascinating glimpse at the sociological and mythological histories of our bedroom kinks and quirks.

The result is mind-boggling, hilarious, and sometimes creepy as she uncovers with us and for us the myriad of -phillias, -manias and -phorias that inhabit our lusty psyches and our often quite ordinary bedrooms.

In short, and without wanting to give too much away, one CAN be a coprophilliac and not want to make a mess on a shag pile (absolutely no pun intended), but there's so much more to it than that.

Stephanie Clifford-Smith is a journalist and food writer, and the author of a biography of Bernard King. She lives in Sydney.

Kink
Allen and Unwin
Author: Stephanie Clifford-Smith
ISBN: 9781741759123
Price: $29.99