Vicarious Kinks
Subtitle: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: May 30, 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781442615519
Description: Who decides where normal stops and perverse begins? In **Vicarious Kinks**, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis for the legal regulation of sadomasochist pornography and practice. Khan s audacious proposal is that for film, feminism, law, and science, the constant focus on taboo sexuality is a form of vicarious kink itself.

Rather than attempt to establish the truth about sadomasochism, **Vicarious Kinks** asks who decides that sadomasochism is perverse, examining how various fields present their claims to truth when it comes to sadomasochism. The first monograph by a new scholar working at the juncture of law and sexuality, **Vicarious Kinks** challenges the myth of law as an objective adjudicator of sexual truth.