Playing Well With Others

Playing Well with Others
Your Field Guide to Discovering Exploring and Navigating the Kink Leather and BDSM Communities

By Lee Harrington Mollena Williams

Paperback; 312 pages

Whether you're a trembling novice or a jaded expert there's always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing complex and titillating world of kink.

While there are plenty of other books out there that explain how to give a spanking or tie a half-hitch Playing Well With Others is the first book that explains kink *culture* – the munches parties leather bars conferences workshops fetish nights exploratoriums and all the other gatherings of kinksters that turn BDSM and leather from a bedroom predilection to a lifestyle and a community.

You'll learn to:

• Examine your own motivations needs wants and desires
• Ease your way into established communities
• Understand etiquette in different adventurous sex communities
• Familiarize yourself with the many types of events available to you
• Care for your relationships as you explore new territory
• Negotiate for play and aftercare
• Go back to the "world at large" without ruffling feathers
• …and of course answer the all-important question: What do you wear?!

The team of Harrington and Williams offers 30-plus years of experience in diverse kink communities: top bottom and switch; gay bi and straight; female male and trans; white and POC. Both former titleholders and international educators they are an unbeatable pair of "sexual sherpas" with an inimitable voice and a great deal of wisdom.

Playing Well With Others is an unprecedented and essential guidebook for anyone who wants to explore or understand the "community" aspect of the kink lifestyle.