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What are Kinky People Reading?

During National Library Week 2006, John Bradford, known as the LA&M's MARC Cub, asked kinky people to submit the titles of their favorite alt-sex books.  The response was enthusiastic.  The LA&M has compiled the responses from this call and seperated fiction and non-fiction.  The titles were then ranked according to their ranking on Amazon.com at the time (April 2006).  The 2 lists below are the end results.
 
A. NON-FICTION 

Easton, Dossie & Liszt, Catherine

Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities.

Wiseman, Jay

SM 101: A Realistic Introduction

Foucault, Michael

Discipline and Punish

Chia, Mantak & Abrams, Douglas

The Multi-Orgasmic Man: How Any Man Can Experience Multiple Orgasms and Dramatically Enhance His Sexual Relationship

Foucault, Michael

History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Miller, Phillip & Devon, Molly

Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism

Danielou, Alain trans.

The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text

Bean, Joseph W.

Flogging

Warren, John

Loving Dominant

Wiseman, Jay

Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook

Midori

The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage

Rinella, Jack

Master's Manual: A Handbook of Erotic Dominance

Easton, Dossie & Hardy, Janet W.

New Bottoming Book

Anders, Charles

The Lazy Crossdresser

Easton, Dossie & Hardy, Janet W.

New Topping Book

Vera, Veronica

Miss Vera’s Cross-Dress for Success: : A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls

Chia, Mantak & Wei, William U.

Sexual Reflexology: Activating the Taoist Points of Love

Brame, William & Brame, Gloria & Jacobs, Jon 

Different Loving: A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission

Abernathy, Christine

Miss Abernathy's Concise Slave Training Manual

Sprinkle, Annie

Dr. Sprinkle’s Spectacular Sex: Make Over Your Love Life with One of the World’s Great Sex Experts

Henkin, William A. & Holiday, Sybil

Consensual Sadomasochism: How to Talk About It & How to Do It Safely

Osho

Sex Matters (From Sex to Superconsciousness)

Brame, Gloria

Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide to Kinky Sex

Bornstein, Kate

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

Shlain, Leonard

Sex, Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

Abernathy, Christine

Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and their Owners

Califia-Rice, Patrick

Sensuous Magic: A Guide to S/M for Adventurous Couples

Hardy, Janet W.

The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning

Masters, Peter

Look Into My Eyes: How to Use Hypnosis to Bring Out the Best in Your Sex Life

Vera, Veronica

Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls

Daniels, Michael

Woof! Perspectives into the Erotic Care & Training of the Human Dog

Haule, John Ryan

The Love Cure: Therapy Erotic and Sexual

Haberman, Hardy

Family Jewels: A Guide to Male Genital Play and Torture

Kent, Douglas

Better-Built Bondage Book: A Complete Guide to Making your own Sex Toys, Furniture, and BDSM Equipment

Bean, Joseph W.

Soaked! A Watersports Handbook for Men

Weinberg, Thomas, ed.

S&M: Studies in Dominance and Submission

Townsend, Larry

Leatherman's Handbook

Hardy, Janet W.

21st Century Kinkycrafts

Easton, Dossie & Hardy, Janet W.

Radical Ecstasy: SM Voyages to Transcendence

Nestle, Joan, & Howell, Clare & Wilchins, Riki, eds.

Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary

Rinella, Jack

Becoming a Slave: The Theory and Practice of Complete Servitude

Schmeling, Bill “The Hun”

Fetish and Fetters: A Selection of Artwork by the Hun

Califia, Pat

Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex

Scholder, Amy & Silverberg, Ira

High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings

Christian, M.

Bad Boys : Steamy True Stories from Bathhouses, Backroom Bars, and Sex Clubs

Midori

Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink Educational, Sensual, and Entertaining Essays

Rinella, Jack

Compleat Slave: Creating and Living an Erotic Submissive/Dominant Lifestyle

Samois

Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M

Lady Green

Compleat Spanker

Baldwin, Guy

Slavecraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude—Principles, Skills, and Tools

Maines, Rachel P.

The Technology of Orgasm: ‘Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction

Taormino, Tristan

The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women

Midori

The Toybag Guide to Foot and Shoe Worship

Manning, Michael

Lumenagerie

Puppy Sharon & Toushin, Steven

Puppy Papers: A Woman's Life and Journey into BDSM

Hutchins, Loraine & Kaahumanu, Lani, eds.

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Easton, Dossie & Liszt, Catherine

When Someone You Love Is Kinky

Tyler, Alison & Davidson, Dante, eds.

Bondage on a Budget

Bean, Joseph W.

Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player

Tom of Finland

Tom of Finland: The Art of Pleasure

Gates, Katharine

Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex

Baldwin, Guy

Ties That Bind: The SM/Leather/Fetish Erotic Style: Issues, Commentaries, and Advice

Strict, M. R.

Intimate Invasions: The Erotic Ins & Outs of Enema Play

Bean, Joseph W.

Flogging; The Basics and Beyond (Book & DVD)

Bean, Joseph W.

Mummification: Down at the End of Bondage Street (Book & DVD)

Rinella, Jack

The Toybag Guide to Clips and Clamps

Bannon, Race

Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun S/M Lovemaking

Spectrum

The Toybag Guide to Hot Wax and Temperature Play

McNeill, Elizabeth

Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair

Wiseman, Jay

The Toybag Guide to Dungeon Emergencies and Supplies

Morgan, David W.

Whips and Whipmaking

Davolt, Robert

Painfully Obvious

Theweleit, Klaus

Male Fantasies Volume 2: Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror

Herrman, Bert

Trust: The Hand Book, A Guide to the Sensual and Spiritual Art of handballing

Warren, John

Toybag Guide to High-Tech Toys

Mains, Geoff

Urban Aboriginals

Mapplethorpe, Robert

Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe

Sheppard, Simon

Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion

Sprinkle, Annie

Annie Sprinkle's Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore

Griffin, Gary M.

Testicles: The Ball Book

Thompson, Mark

Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow to Self

Rinella, Jack

Partners in Power: Living in Kinky Relationships

Morin, Jack

The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Sexual Passion and Fulfillment.

Frost, Gavin and Frost, Yvonne

Tantric Yoga: The Royal Path to Raising Kundalini Power

Juno, Andrea & Vale, V. eds..

Angry Women (Re/Search 13)

Bean, Joseph W.

Leathersex Q&A: Questions About Leathersex and the Leather Lifestyle Answered

Johnson, Viola M.

To Love, To Obey, To Serve: Diary of an Old Guard Slave

Suresha, Ron Jackson

Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions

Thibault, Kelly J.

Leather and Latex Care: How to keep your Leather and Latex Looking Great

Stanton, Eric

Reunion in Ropes

Adams, Karen

Gifts Guaranteed to Please a Woman: A Guide for Men

Mistress Lorelei

Charm School for Sissy Maids

Sensuous Sadie

It's Not About the Whip: Love, Sex, and Spirituality in the BDSM Scene

Thompson, Mark, ed.

Leatherfolk: : Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice

Calafia, Patrick

Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism

Goddess Lakshimi

Safe Beginnings: An Exploration of BDSM Lifestyles

Campbell, Drew & Barr, Donna

The Bride Wore Black Leather...and He Looked Fabulous!: An Etiquette Guide for the Rest of Us

Kroll, Eric

Transformations of Gwen, Vol. 2

Jacques, Trevor

On The Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play

Bean, Joseph W.

International Mister Leather: 25 Years of Champions

Lady Green & Easton, Jaymes, eds.

KinkyCrafts: 99 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys for the Kinky Handyperson

Kroll, Eric

Transformations of Gwen, Vol. 1

Delany, Samuel R.

Bread and Wine

Escoffier, Jeffrey, ed.

Sexual Revolution

Phillips, Anita

A Defense of Masochism

Rednour, Shar

The Femme’s Guide to the Universe

Queen, Carol

Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture

Antoniou, Laura, ed.

Leatherwomen II

Uncle Abdul

Juice: Electricity for Pleasure and Pain

Scott, Gini Graham

Erotic Power: An Exploration of Dominance and Submission

McNeil, James W.

Ancient Lovemaking Secrets: The Journey Toward Immortality

Warren, John

Safe, Sane, Consensual and Fun

Stoller, Robert

Pain and Passion: A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S&M

Hyatt, Christopher S. & Black, S. Jason.

Tantra Without Tears

Dekkers, Midas

Dearest Pet: On Bestiality

Dominguez, Jr., Ivo

Beneath the Skins: The New Spirit and Politics of the Kink Community

Semans, Anne & Winks, Cathy

The Woman’s Guide to Sex on the Web

Antoniou, Laura, ed.

Leatherwomen

Bright, Susie

Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World

Townsend, Larry

Leatherman's Handbook II

Rosen, Michael

Sexual Magic: The S/M Photographs

Antoniou, Laura, ed.

Leatherwomen III: The Clash of the Cultures

Califia, Pat

Lesbian S/M Safety Manual; Basic Health and Safety for Woman-To-Woman S/M

Thompson, Bill

Sadomasochism: Painful Perversion or Pleasurable Play?

Gilles, Deleuze

Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs

Bastian, Don

Chainmale 3SM—A Unique View of Leather Culture

Wingate, Bob, ed.

Hazing: An Anthology of True Hazing Tales

Antoniou, Laura, ed.

Looking for Mr. Preston

King, Francis

Tantra: The Way of Action: A Practical Guide to its Teachings and Techniques

Preston, John

Hustling: A Gentleman's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution

Preston, John

My Life as a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts

Chiose, Simona

Good Girls Do: Sex Chronicles of a Shameless Generation

Wright, Susan, ed.

SM Classics

Bean, Joseph W.

Leathersex Shadows: The Erotic Art of Joseph W. Bean

Steward, Samuel

Chapters from an Autobiography

Sherman-Jones, Carol

My Life as a Gay Man in a Straight Woman’s Body: An Autobiography

Townsend, Larry

Ask Larry

Baker, Jo-Anne

Sex Tips and Tales from Women Who Dare: Exploring the Exotic Erotic

Moser, Charles & Madeson, JJ

Bound to Be Free: The SM Experience

Turner, Roy, ed.

“You Beat People Up For a Living, Don’t You, Mummy?”: Inside The World of the Dominatrix

Cromwell, Jason

Transmen & FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders & Sexualities

Gupta, Bina, ed

Sexual Archetypes, East and West

Wright, Les, ed.

The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture.

Budworth, Geoffrey

The Knot Book

Bornstein, Kate

My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You or Someone Else Entirely

Wilchins, Riki Anne

Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender

Collier, Jane

Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Grieger, David

Fag Slave to the Muscle Gods:The Erotic Art of David/Custom Inks

Wright, Les, ed.

The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture

Exander, Max

Safe Stud: The Safesex Chronicles

Schruender, Michael

Bears, Beasts, and Masculine Beauties: The Erotic Art of Dade Ursus

Anonymous

Aphrodisiacs: An Encyclopedia of Erotic Wisdom

Berlinger, Cain

Black Men in Leather

Mansfield, Claire & Mendelssohn, John

Dominatrix: A Memoir, The Making of Mistress Chloe

Mistress J.

Private Theatre: Personal Observations and Revelations of a Dominatrix

Larsen, John Eric

Songs to my Master

Rubin, Gayle S.

Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-1990

 
B. FICTION
  1. Gabaldon, Diana

Outlander

  1. Gabaldon, Diana

Dragonfly in Amber

  1. Roquelaire, Anne

Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, 1)

  1. Reage, Pauline

Story of O

  1. Weatherfield, Molly

Carrie's Story

  1. Roquelaire, Anne

Beauty's Release (Sleeping Beauty, 3)

  1. Roquelaire, Anne

Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty, 2)

  1. Rice, Anne

The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, 1)

  1. Rice, Anne

Interview with a Vampire (Vampire Chronicles, 1)

  1. Rice, Anne

Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, 2)

  1. Rice, Anne

Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, 3)

  1. Carey, Jacqueline

Kushiel's Chosen (Kushiel's Legacy 2)

  1. Carey, Jacqueline

Kushiel's Dart (Kushiel's Legacy 1)

  1. Carey, Jacqueline

Kushiel's Avatar (Kushiel's Legacy 3)

  1. Rice, Anne

Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, 2)

  1. Antoniou, Laura

The Reunion (Tales of the Marketplace, Book 5)

  1. Antoniou, Laura

The Slave (Tales of the Marketplace, Book 2)

  1. Antoniou, Laura

The Marketplace (Tales of the Marketplace, Book 1)

  1. Stone, Kyle

Initiation of PB500

  1. Barela, Tim

How Real Men Do It (Leonard & Larry 4)

  1. Antoniou, Laura

The Trainer (Tales of the Marketplace, Book 3)

  1. Daniels, Michael

GRRR!

  1. Tom of Finland

Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection

  1. Manning, Michael

In a Metal Web (Spider Garden 3)

  1. Antoniou, Laura

The Academy (Tales of the Marketplace, Book 4)

  1. Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von

Venus in Furs

  1. Delany, Samuel R.

Hogg

  1. Manning, Michael

Spider Garden (Spider Garden 1)

  1. Stone, Kyle

The Citadel

  1. Manning, Michael

Hydrophidian (Spider Garden 2)

  1. Preston, John

In Search of a Master

  1. Preston, John

Entertainment for a Master

  1. Califia, Pat

Doing it For Daddy: Short and Sexy Fiction About a Very Forbidden Fantasy

  1. Stein, David

Carried Away: An S/M Romance

  1. Califia, Pat

Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction

  1. Preston, John

Mr. Benson

  1. Sheppard, Simon & Christian, M.

Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power

  1. Townsend, Larry

Hounds of Hell and other SM Stories

  1. Rose, Chloe Brushwood & Camilleri, Anna

Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity

  1. Barela, Tim

Excerpts from the Ring Cycle in Royal Albert Hall (Leonard & Larry 3)

  1. Preston, John

I Once Had a Master

  1. Fritscher, Jack

Some Dance to Remember

  1. Suresha, Ron Jackson

Bearotica: Hot, Hairy, Heavy Fiction

  1. Fritscher, Jack

Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O'Malley

  1. Platt, Charles

Gas

  1. Queen, Carol

Leather Daddy and the Femme

  1. Stanton, Eric

She Dominates All

  1. Sheppard, Simon & Christian, M.

Roughed Up: More Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power

  1. Belasco

Brothers of New Essex: Afro-Erotic Adventures

  1. Rampling, Anne

Exit to Eden

  1. Sarai, Lisabet & Mayfair, Seneca F.

Sacred Exchange: Stories of Spirituality and Transcendence in Dominance and Submission

  1. Johnstone, James C., ed.

Quickies: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

  1. Brough, Tim

Sgt. Vlengle's Revenge

  1. Antoniou, Laura

Catalyst and other stories

  1. Preston, John

Love of a Master

  1. Califia, Pat

No Mercy

  1. Sheppard, Simon

In Deep: and other stories

  1. Bartlett, Neal

Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall

  1. Johnstone, James C., ed.

Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

  1. Carney, William

The Real Thing

  1. Picano, Felice

Lure

  1. Fritscher, Jack

Leather Blues

  1. Tan, Cecelia

The Velderet: A Cybersex SM Serial

  1. Barela, Tim

Domesticity Isn't Pretty (Leonard & Larry 1)

  1. Chesley. Robert

Hard Plays, Stiff Parts: The Homoerotic Plays of Robert Chesley

  1. Califia, Pat & Sweeney, Robin, eds.

Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader

  1. Brough, Tim

Black  Gloves, White Magic

  1. Andrews, Terry

Story of Harold

  1. Powell, Mason

Brig

  1. Tal, Stan, ed.

Bizarre Sex and Other Crimes of Passion

  1. May, David

Madrugada

  1. Carney, William

The Rose Exterminator: A Novel

  1. Bean, Joseph W., ed.

Horsemen: Leathersex Short Fiction

  1. Tan, Cecelia

Telepaths Don't Need Safewords

  1. Barela, Tim

Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead (Leonard & Larry 2)

  1. Johnstone, James C., ed.

Quickies 2: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

  1. Wharton, Greg, ed.

Best of the Best Meat Erotica

  1. Tan, Cecelia, ed.

S/M Futures: Erotica on the Edge

  1. Preston, John

Tales From the Dark Lord

  1. Preston, John

Tales From the Dark Lord II

  1. Califia, Pat

Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian tale of a Girl and Her Biker

  1. Townsend, Larry

Run, Little Leather Boy

  1. Tan, Cecelia, ed.

Tales From the Erotic Edge: A Circlet Omnibus

  1. Eighner, Lars

B.M.O.C.

  1. Andros, Phil

Stud: A Novel

  1. Bean, Joseph W.

Trouble in Paradise

  1. Townsend, Larry

Case of the Severed Head

  1. Exander, Max

Leathersex: Cruel Affections

  1. Roche, Thomas S., ed.

Noirotica

  1. Chester, Mark

Diary of a Thought Criminal

  1. Andros, Phil

Below the Belt & Other Stories