I have been in a book buying mood lately.

I am in search of one book in particular, I was wondering if anyone has a spare copy…(What would it hurt to ask, after all, I was given a lovely Fraternity paddle at the party last night, after posting on it). I am looking for the DSMR4.

That is the Diagnostic and Statistical book of Mental-Disorders and Retardation, Edition 4.

This new revision, which I have the 3rd Edition, re classifies fetishes, and sado-masochism. Supposedly, the new way of pyschology is to consider most sexual deviants of the consenting variety to be mentally healthy in their own right. I would love to have a copy to reference first hand.

This week the Mistressing Manual and Chain male SM3, the Bottoming Book, Kiss of the Whip, My Private Life-Mistress Nan, and Consensual Sadomasochism (Sybil Holliday) and much more that have yet to arrive have all been added to my reading list.

Mistress Pink and I had discussed writing a book together eventually, and I write articles all the time. I would love to put this and many other books in my library to reference and support my statements, and also to help novice submissives to understand that they are not sick, and they are not alone.

It also might be a wondeful thing for others to reference them in defense of their own lifestyle.

I have the hunt out for Freud, and Theodore Reik (Masochism in Modern Man). The evolution of the psychological viewing of fetishism and sado-masochism is fascinating.

On my current reading list, aside from all my new book purchases, I have my old copy of Eroticism :Death and Sexuality by Georges Bataille.

I swear, it is like a college coarse I have made for myself. I have already my own conclussions and experiences with over 15 years in the lifestyle, and decade professional scening. But i want a broader perspective than my own bias, my own preconcieved notions. I want to have as many different inputs as possible as to the amazing world of BDSM…this lifestyle can be therapuetic or detrimental, depending how it is used. It is amazing, beautiful and frightening.

Mistress Genevieve
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