The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play, and the Erotic Edge

“So many of the people who write me at ‘Savage Love’ are curious about kink—some days it accounts for half the mail—but they don’t know where to start. I’m going to be recommending this collection of essays. This is more than just a guide to kink, it’s more than a sex manual. Editor Tristan Taormino has brought the players, thinkers, and rock stars of the kink scene and together they have created a book that not only lets people know where to start, but why to start, and what they’ll get out of it. Vanillas, novices, old hands, old guard—everyone can learn from this collection.”

—Dan Savage

“Tristan Taormino has gifted us with a magnificent collection of essays from kinkdom’s finest educators: consider it required reading for every kinkster who lives life on the hot side.”

—Dossie Easton, co-author of The New Topping Book and The New Bottoming Book

“Tristan Taormino has created a perfect compendium of kink that covers the nuts and bolts of spanking, bondage, role playing, rough sex, and much more, as well as the philosophies, motivations, and deeply personal experiences of an array of BDSM players. If ‘Brutal Affection’ sounds like an oxymoron to you, read on. Keep a copy in your bedroom—and your toy bag!”

—Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of Spanked and Best Sex Writing 2012

“Finally, a smart, comprehensive, and brave book on kinky sex for this generation. Tristan Taormino’s The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the first really good new book on the subject in years. BDSM and kink aficionados are lifelong learners, endlessly fascinated with their own sexual and personal growth. I expect this to be the BDSM bible for the next decade.”

—Felice Newman, author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book