BDSM BOOK LIST
General BDSM Books for those on either side of the /
- The ABC’s of BDSM
- The Bdsm Contract Book
- Consensual Sadomasochism: How to Talk About It and How to Do It Safely
- Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun S/m Lovemaking
- Sensuous Magic: A Guide to S/M for Adventurous Couples
- The Warrior Princess Submissive
- Discipline: Adding Rules & Discipline To Your BDSM Relationship
- Different Loving: A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission
- SM 101: A Realistic Introduction
- Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism–
- Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook
- The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge
- Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink
- Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide To Kinky Sex
- Partners in Power
- BDSM Basics for Beginners – A Guide for Dominants and Submissives Starting to Explore the Lifestyle
- How to be Kinky: A Beginner’s Guide to BDSM
- Building the Team: Cooperative Power Dynamic Relationships
- Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Navigating and Exploring the Kink, Leather and BDSM Community
- Tongue Tied: Untangling Communication in Sex, Kink, and Relationships:
- Safe, Sane, Consensual… And Fun
- Leading and Supportive Love: The Truth About Dominant and Submissive Relationships
- Michael Makai’s Little Book of BDSM Quotes
- BDSM The Naked Truth
- Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths Of Bdsm And Beyond
Books for Male and Female Dominant
- The Loving Dominant
- The New Topping Book
- Mastering Mind: Dominants with Mental Illness & Neurological Dysfunction
- The Control Book
- The Heart of Dominance: A Guide to Practicing Consensual Dominance
- My Mentor, My Guide: A Handbook for Daddies and Boys for the New Generation
- Better Built Bondage
Books for Female Dominants
- The Femdom Handbook: A practical guide to female domination.
- The S&M Feminist: Best of Clarisse Thorn
- The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl’s Guide to Female Dominance
- The Art Of Sensual Female Dominance: A Guide for Women
- How to set up an FLR
- At Her Feet: Powering Your Femdom Relationship
- The Color of Kink: Black Women, Bdsm, and Pornography
- Female Dominance: Rituals and Practices
- Female Domination
Books for submissives
- The New Bottoming Book
- How to be a Happy and Healthy Submissive:
- What Submissives Want to Know: Real Questions, Real Answers,
- The Pleasure’s All Mine: The Memoir of a Professional Submissive:
- Erotic Surrender: The Sensual Joys of Female Submission
- Conquer Me: Girl-To-Girl Wisdom about Fulfilling Your Submissive Desires
- 62Q: Sixty-two Questions For Your Dominant
- Unveiled – The Secret Submissive Within
- BDSM Basics for Submissives – Dealing with the Mental and Emotional Side of BDSM
- Broken Toys: Submissives with Mental Illness & Neurological Dysfunction
Books for the Master/slave Dynamic
- Erotic Slavehood: A Miss Abernathy Omnibus
- Paradigms of Power: Styles of Master/slave Relationships
- The Way of the Pleasure Slave: Erotic Slavehood for the Submissive Woman
- SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude–Principles, Skills and Tools
- Art of Slavery: A Power Exchange Resource Book
- Real Service
- Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice (M/s Studies Books)
- Order for Discipline and Service Handbook
- Living M/s; A Book for Masters, slaves, and Their Relationships
- The Master’s Manual: A Handbook of Erotic Dominance
- The Complete Slave: Creating And Living An Erotic Dominant/submissive Lifestyle
- Protocol: The Handbook for the Female Slave
- Becoming a Slave: The Theory & Practice of Voluntary Servitude
- Real Service
- Creating a Personal Protocol:
- Protocols: A Variety of Views
Books for and about The Leather Community
- The Leatherman’s Handbook: Silver Jubilee Edition
- Protocol Handbook for the Leather Slave: Theory and Practice (M/S Studies Book)
- Leather Folk
Books on Rope
- The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage
- Kinbaku: The Art of Rope Bondage
- Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes: A Step-by-Step, Illustrated Guide for Tying Sensual and Decorative Rope Bondage
- Two Knotty Boys Back on the Ropes
- Complete Shibari: Land
- Complete Shibari: Sky
- Rope, Bondage, and Power
- Shibari You Can Use
- More Shibari You Can Use
- Jay Wiseman’s Erotic Bondage Handbook
- Better Bondage for Every Body
- Tying & Flying: Bondage for Self-Suspension
- Somatics for Rope Bottoms
Books for Fetishes/Specific Types of Play
- The Forked Tongue: A Handbook for Treating People Badly
- The Toybag Guide to Playing with Taboo:
- Male Chastity: A Guide for Keyholders
- A Keyholder’s Handbook: A Woman’s Guide to Male Chastity
- Fantasy Made Flesh: The Essential Guide to Erotic Roleplay
- Flogging
- Enough to Make You Blush: Exploring Erotic Humiliation
- Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot
- What The Butt?!?
- Fashion Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture
- Fetish – Fashion, Sex & Power
- Fetish Style
- Wax Lyrical: A Kinkster’s Guide to Wax Play
- Big Me, Little Me:: A Survival Guide for Littles by Littles
Books about Polyamory
- The Ethical Slut
- Power Circuits: Polyamory in a Power Dynamic
- Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
- Pagan Polyamory
- Plural Loves: Designs For Bi And Poly Living
- The Myth of Monogamy
Research on the History, Psychology, and Philosophy of BDSM
- Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities
- S&M: Studies in Dominance & Submission
- A Defense of Masochism
- Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism:
- Thinking Kink: The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular Culture:
- The Social Construction of Sexuality and Perversion: Deconstructing Sadomasochism
- Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890
- A Lover’s Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism
- Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures
- Dark Moon Rising: Pagan Bdsm & the Ordeal Path
- Bound to Be Free : The SM Experience
- Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of Sadomasochism
- The History & Arts of the Dominatrix
- Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
- Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness
- UNITED KINKDOM: The Truth About The BDSM Scene
- Philosophy in the Dungeon, The Magic of Sex & Spirit
- Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
- Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
- Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs
BDSM Themed Fiction Books
- The Story of O A classic of BDSM fiction, The Story of O follows the tale of O, a fashion photographer who is taken by her lover to a mysterious chateau called the Roissy, where she is trained as a sex slave. When her training is complete, her lover then gives her to a new master, who continues her sexual adventure.
- Elicitation The first book in the Training of Eileen, this novel follows a woman who on her wedding night is told that she is to be trained in sexual servitude by her husband. Their honeymoon becomes a sexual whirlwind, as she is brought into a universe of sexual adventures she didn’t dream possible.
- Evocation In book two of the Training of Eileen, the story picks up after Eileen and her new husband return from their honeymoon. In the familiar environs of their home city, Eileen learns that her sexual servitude will be an ongoing part of her life. Her adventure continues as her husband furthers her sexual training, shaping her into an eager and willing submissive.
- The Sleeping Beauty Series This collection of three erotic novels by Anne Rice follows Beauty, awakened from a magical slumber by a prince who first deflowers her and then brings her into a world of sexual trials and subjugation. She is brought into a world where erotic submission is demanded of her, and subjected to harsh treatment when she fails to be properly compliant.
- Nine 1/2 Weeks , Elizabeth McNeill, 1978, Shocking and hot. Much better than the film. No longer in print.
- Exit to Eden , Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling, 1982, BDSM fantasy. The basis for the 1994 film. Again, the book is better.
- Man with a Maid Omnibus: Man with a Maid, Man with a Maid Volume II, and Man with a Maid the Conclusion , Anonymous. A Victorian BDSM Classic emphasizing male dominance over female submissives.
- Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction , Pat Califia, 1986. A collection of very hot lesbian BDSM short stories from one of the great writers of lesbian SM.
- Meeting the Master , Elissa Wald, 1997. A collection of role-oriented stories by New York writer Elissa Wald. Many of the stories are fascinating looks at power-play focused relationships, both in the consensual realm and in the self-discovery realm.
- Juliette; Justine , 120 Days of Sodom, The Marquis de Sade. The 18th Century writer whose writing gave sadism its name. Savage, nonconsensual, sexual violence. A decidedly acquired taste.
- Venus in Furs , Sacher Von Masoch. The namesake of masochism. A classic tale of a male submissive and his cruel dominant mistress, written by a submissive who almost certainly lived what he wrote.
- Benson (and many other novels), John Preston. Preston is the premier author of gay SM fiction, and Mr. Benson is his most famous work.
- Leatherwomen by Laura Antoniou, 1992-94. Three excellent anthologies of short stories by women, about women though by no means limited to women.
- The Marketplace series by Laura Antoniou
- Masters of the Shadowlands by Cherise Sinclair
- Mountain Masters & Dark Haven by Cherise Sinclair
- Masters and Mercenaries by Lexi Blake
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