GALA FUR - DICTIONNAIRE DU BDSM

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Masochism is "the only form of love that has developed since Sade" wrote Robert Desnos about Guillaume Apollinaire's Eleven Thousand yards. Coming out of the underground in the 1990s, "SM" has suddenly prompted a hundred million people to read the novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Became BDSM (bondage, discipline, domination, submission) this mysterious continent now includes fetishes, bondage (shibari) and body-activism. Some works of the hundred artists present in this dictionary vibrate of this interiority. Others illustrate the profusion of BDSM role-playing games that reproduce the hierarchies of power. Unbridled, political, voluptuous and sometimes painful, these games, often carried out with humor, have given birth to new words: Femdom, gynarchy, dead-of-hunger, souminatrice, switch, powerplay, topspace, toyboy, rubber doll, zentai, zombies, etc. The 250 or so entries in this dictionary, illustrated by numerous excerpts from literary works, decode the social fabric of this mysterious, evolving planet.

Writer and filmmaker based in Paris, Gala Fur has humorously depicted the atmosphere of the great European fetish parties of the 1990s in Les Soirées de Gala, magnified the diversity of S&M practices in Séances and captured from the inside the shifts from one role to another in Gala Strip, published by La Musardine. Her manuals Dare to know everything about S&M and Dare to play domination and submission games are the breviaries of beginners. She directed the short films L'écrivain et son chien and Baud'laire promène Médor, with the writer Pierre Bourgeade.