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empathy to encourage interviewees to trust the researcher

and what initiatives researchers and clinicians can pursue

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Each section includes a case study to illustrate a common concern

Techniques of Pleasure Jimmy Choi empathy to encourage interviewees toTechniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area's pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes a scene devoted to a form of erotic play organized around technique, rules and regulations, consumerism, and self mastery. Challenging the notion that SM is