In all aspects of sexuality there is a dark side. It is the sunny side that attracts us in the first place, draws us in. It is the dark side that holds us, binds us, mesmerizes us like the eyes of serpent and keeps us in thrall. Sex and death are related, like the two adjoining symbols in yin and yang, identical, precise, black and white, and yet the seed of one planted in the other.
Within the world of extreme sexual practises is there an area of unexplored creativity?
This is the question Agnès Giard sets out to answer in her deeply provocative yet strangely intimate book Le Sexe Bizarre. In what the French call 'un beau livre,' the volume discusses such oddities as people making love with balloons, car-pedals, chocolate cakes or saran, practices that testify to the barely credible inventiveness, not to say weirdness, of the human mind.
Born in 1969, Agnès Giard is a journalist who specialises in counter-cultures, new technologies, Japan and deviant art. She is a regular contributor to 'Marquis,' the German rubber-fashion magazine; 'Technikart;' 'SM Sniper;' the Japanese fetish magazine, and laspirale.org,... MORE
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