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Summary: Truely orgasmic!
Review: "Deviant Desires" has brought sunshine to my otherwise dark existence. Great illustrations and graphic descriptions help me live out my wildest fanatsies. Truely orgasmic!
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Summary: A wonderful study of people & possibilities
Review: A fun-loving, sympathetic, open look at the vast possibilities of the human psyche. Katherine Gates has done more than open a new psychological door on previously unexplored fetishes, she has presented the stories, wishes & secret playtimes of ordinary people with extraordinary directness. In the sexual world nothing is sacred - horses, balloons, stuffed animals - and for the most part, nothing needs to be! The book is about unusual fetishes, but it is fair to say that "Deviant Desires" is just as much about people as it is about psychology. Read it! Your own "deep, dark, secret wish" may not be as secret as you think!
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Summary: Not quite what I was expecting... but great overall.
Review: I have been wanting this book for quite some time now. I must say, I was rather disappointed when I received it. I picked up the book and I flipped through the pages to get a feel of it. I was shocked to see not one color photograph illustrating the various sexual deviances. However, the book is highly informative. One other gripe I may have about the book is that the chapter on ponyplay is much too long. I would have preferred a shorter chapter on this topic and the introduction of a new topic instead. The chapter on sploshing was great.
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Summary: Let Katherine Gates show you the normal side of deviance
Review: I was attending an erotic/adult expo in San Francisco in spring 2000 when I saw a woman sitting at a nearly deserted booth, holding a copy of this book, which I had just bought and read the week before. "Isn't that the best? I got that last week and just devoured it, it's amazing!" I exclaimed, not realizing I had just approached the author and totally made her day. Humans come in an incredible array of shapes and sizes, and so do their turn-ons. Katherine Gates, known for her past collaborations with porn-performance-artist Annie Sprinkle, overviews a variety of practices that occupy the outer edges of sexuality, but flourish on the Internet. Balloon fetishists (to pop or not to pop, that is the question), people who like to pretend they are ponies, fat admirers and messy girls are all collected here, shown in happy, consensual pictures and interviews. This book will be of interest to fetishists, social anthropologists, sex counselors/educators and collectors of the unusual.
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Summary: Sexy, Entertaining and Liberating!
Review: Opening this book is like discovering buried treasure: Every paragraph and photograph is a gem. With the creation of Deviant Desires, author Katharine Gates has not only produced a work of art -- which one would imagine to find in a museum gift shop at triple the price -- but she has also done the world a mitzvah, by shining the light of day into the hidden corners of our darkest sexual desires, and revealing that much of what actually dwells there is childlike innocence, wonder and playfulness. A completely engrossing and refreshing book, written with unflinching candor, lighthearted humor, and a sense of deep respect for these everyday people who indulge in fantastic sex practices.
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Summary: Terrific, informative, sexy
Review: Think you're odd? Do you like to do "strange" things in bed? Have you ever found yourself fantasizing about something that you know is bizarre? Welcome to the real world, honey, where "deviant" sex is the norm. You may think that your penchant for panties or wish to squish is something no sane person would contemplate but you'd be wrong. In Deviant Desires, author Katharine Gates goes for the jugular. Leaving the relatively "normal" realms of BDSM (Bondage & Discipline/SadoMasochism), transgenderism, and shrimping behind, the topics explored in Deviant Desires are completely "off the map" in comparison. Ranging from in-depth chapters on Pony Play to Balloon Fetishes with stops along the way about Giantesses, Crushing, and Fat fans, Gates raises the bar with each chapter. Even our old pal Romain Slocombe (see above) makes an appearance with his Broken Dolls photography near the end of the book.
My favorite chapter has to be the "catch all" finale to the book that addresses (among other things) attraction to androids ("My Living Doll" anyone?) and erotic fan fiction. The drawings of popular science fiction characters in compromising positions aren't easy to forget.
Gates is highly respectful of her subjects, neither exploiting them nor psychoanalyzing them. The fun the people have with their fetishes is apparent and rather "normalizing"! While the idea of people enjoying themselves while not indulging in "vanilla sex" may be offensive to some, this book is for the silent, (a)moral majority! (ISBN: 1890451037)
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Summary: Good writen, but not extraordinary ...
Review: This book was fun to read, good written, nice pictures and neither pornographic nor boring. Points of critizism: The sexual preferences described weren`t so "incredibly strange". Ponyriding, rubber fetish, mud and food games, fat, food and boot fetish, clinical and bondage are exactly the ways I imagined bizarre sex to be, so there was really no surprise. And then there is not too much about MS, animal, excrement, necrophilia, stuff that`s not so well known ... Personally I would have enjoyed to read a little bit about techniques and tricks. Overall, the title was misleading, but the book was ok.
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Summary: Intellectual Orgasm
Review: this has been the most theoretically and erotically exciting book I have seen in AGES. I have to wander around with my head in a daze for an hour after each chapter. My hat is OFF to Katherine, this is the cutting edge book on sex and the human mind right now, and she has used "fetish" as a way to explore things that are absolutely universal.
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Summary: Riding the Ponies, by fermed
Review: This is a book about exotic fetishes, and even if one has no procivities towards what the book offers (EVERYBODY HAS SOME, the book affirms) it makes for extremely interesting reading. The book is devoted to nine types of fetishes, and of these the largest and most profusely illustrated has to do with the ponies (about 60 pages). This consists of young, pretty things, who dress up with saddles, stirrups and other accouterments normally found on horses. Placing themselves on all fours, these ladies offer themselves for riding experiences. Other play activities have to do with body inflation, slopping in messy liquid (or semi-liquid) substances, the adoration of extremely large women (I mean VERY LARGE: in the 550 pound category), the enjoyment of deviant trekky fantasies (Mr. Spok's green Vulcan penis is mentioned), and other sexually interesting objects. The book guides the reader to assorted web pages that can be used for further sexual explorations. It presents such unusual things as the art of Romaine Slocombe which is devoted to drawings and photographs of bandaged, cast, and often hospitalized Asian ladies. These are shown with an accompanying fantasy that they met medical catastrophes of one sort or another while on vacation. Thus the title of Slocombe's little manual: "Sad Vacations." Whether one can find sexual provocation in a picture of a bandaged creature entitled "Fracture without displacement of left tibia -- deep cut in left bicemps" will depend greatly on the type of kink that possesses you. Truly an eye-opener. I'll take that back: no surgical or sexual eye openings appear in the book. What I meant was: an enlightening entertainment for the sexually adventurous.
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Summary: Not for the Victorian or the easily upset
Review: This is an almost encyclopedia book that attempts to cover some of the non-normative ways in which folks get turned-on and get off. Warning: there are lots of picture here so if you find yourself upset by any of the subject covered, either don't read those chapters or don't buy the book. Gates does an excellent job of letting those with these desires speak for themselves without making many judgemental statements. In nine chapters and 235 pages she covers alot from human ponies to balloons and to fat fetishes or robot lust. A great exploration but perhaps not one most of us would want to read over and over.
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