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Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence |  | Authors: Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy
Publisher: Greenery Press (CA)
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 258316
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 189015962X
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9781890159627
ASIN: 189015962X
Publication Date: October 2004
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Leather, tantra and spirit combine in this revolutionary sex book, which partners BDSM and sacred-sex practices. For millennia, seekers have used physical and emotional extremes to achieve transcendence and exaltation. Today, many BDSM and leather practitioners are discovering the potential of SM practice to reach personal, interpersonal and spiritual goals. With trademark frankness and humor, these popular BDSM/sexuality authors share techniques using tantric breathing, visualization and movement with BDSM to create states of transcendence during solo and partnered sexual and practice. The authors also document their own journeys into the realm transcendent kink: one author journeys Eastern and pagan spiritual paths while the other struggles to accept bliss. They share their triumphs, too: when conceptual frameworks cease to matter and bodies and spirits combine in radical ecstasy.
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 Always insightful and inspiring August 3, 2009
December
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While our paths haven't crossed for many years I was fortunate to have met Dossie back when I was just beginning my BDSM exploration. Through the years her words have given me the courage to follow my own path when I had no role models; she continues to teach that WIITWD is more an expression of community than an edict. SM is for me a source of laughter, strength, growth and spirituality and I see my role as a sadist to be that of a healer more than anything else. This book reassures and illustrates that there is richness and depth to be found in heartfelt SM and few are as gifted as Janet and Dossie at painting portraits of experience with their words.
Susanne D'Arcy
 Easton & Hardy what a team September 18, 2008
Kitty (Franklin Park, Illinois United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As with every other bok I have read by them Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy make a fabulous team, this is no exception. Easy and enjoyable to read this book gets into both of their very different mind on the spiritul side of BDSM. lots of personal acounts and break downs of how different experiences moved them. A difficult to explain topic somewhat explained.
 Some good sections. But some bad ones, too. October 11, 2006
Stefan Isaksson (Malmoe, Sweden)
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
Radical Ecstasy is a book that's difficult to define. Is it a BDSM-manual? Is it some kind of feminist manifesto about women's right to live out their sexual fantasies? Is it a diary, combined with relationship-stories, written by the two authors strictly for their own personal satisfaction? Or is it simply a combination of all of the above?
Well, probably the last alternative. Probably. Because I'm not that sure, despite the fact that it's only been five minutes since I (finally) finished the piece. I add "finally", because it wasn't the greatest book I've ever read. Especially since it felt like such a lengthy book; page after page was turned without anything really happening, but no. The only thing one can do is keeping one's fingers crossed that the authors will get to their point, whatever that is, but the wait is long and extremely frustrating. And frustration is never a good thing.
Many different parts of the BDSM-scene are investigated, for instance various bondage-scenarios and various domination/submission sessions, many of which Easton and Hardy themselves have experienced together with their numerous male and female lovers. Time and again they emphasize the phenomenon, or state of mind, known as ecstasy (not the drug), and try their very best to explain to the reader how to experience it. But the question remains: what's the difference between ecstasy and an orgasm? Well, you tell me. The book sure doesn't do it, and whenever it's mentioned it's mostly written for a female audience. This doesn't mean that the role of the men is trivialized or overlooked. However, though, it's definitely a book written by women and mostly aimed towards other women.
Still, the book has its good sections, too. Especially the part where they discuss how a ritualistic setting can enable people to act out and deal with their inner pain. But overall, Radical Ecstasy comes out as yet another mediocre New Age book found in the self-help section of your local bookstore. With the exception that this one contains detailed sexual scenarios. (Not extremely detailed, though. It's not an XXX-rated book).
Finishing the book I couldn't help but feeling that perhaps the authors wrote it due to their exhibitionistic natures, and not because they wanted to help people. I'm probably wrong, but that was nonetheless the feeling I got.
Fabulous book August 4, 2005
DTVIII (Chaos)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a brilliant book for the leather loving enthusiast. I enjoy the fact that they are willing to share their experiences and insights on a very real but not very much talked about spiritual side of the things we know and love.
A Whole New World! April 25, 2005
Rosanna Tufts (Baltimore, MD USA)
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a how-to book of tying up your partner, techniques for using tools, what parts of the body are safe to strike, etc., you'll have to look elsewhere in other books that cover these subjects. If, on the other hand, you want to know why on Earth would anybody want to do this in the first place, you've hit the jackpot in "Radical Ecstasy."
If you think BDSM is all about cruelty, Dossie and Janet will convince you otherwise. They are incredibly articulate about psychological processes that are nearly impossible to describe. Come along with players on their journeys to the darkest, scariest parts of their minds and watch them emerge cleansed, whole, free, and (most importantly of all) LOVED by their play partners. Their role-plays may well be more effective than hypnosis or years of therapy on a shrink's couch. The authors feel their words do not do the experiences justice, but truly they are too modest.
I had the good fortune to meet Dossie and Janet at a Polyamory convention, having already read their classic "The Ethical Slut" which is far-and-away the best and most practical book about the dynamics of Polyamory. They are cool ladies who would be mistaken for ordinary vanilla if you didn't know otherwise. "Radical Ecstasy" is every bit as revelatory as "The Ethical Slut," opening up a whole new world for me.
At one point in reading it, I collapsed in cathartic laughter that made tears stream down my face, when I suddenly realized that I had always been fascinated with bondage games, even as early as age 8. My obsession with "Perils of Pauline" scenes became a source of enormous ridicule from my schoolmates, so embarrasing I never dared breathe a word of it to anyone for more than 30 years. At long last, Dossie and Janet proved that there was nothing wrong with me after all! I was merely trying to act out a logical resolution to the school-bully problem. My first-ever night at a BDSM club saw me tied to a St. Andrew's Cross while wearing the most demure, innocent, Victorian-vintage lace dress imaginable. Eventually, I might finally get to act out a resistance/takedown/rescue scene where I get chased all over the dungeon . . .
THANK YOU, Dossie and Janet, for sharing your amazing love with the world.
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