Dominatrix Redone

Abstract

This chapter, I think, exemplifies a main argument of this book. I’ll talk to anyone willing to talk to me, talk with them as long as they want, and treat them when they want treatment and with any treatment I can handle, including long, long psychoanalyses. I’ll do field work (though less than I should), such as visiting the B & D establishments; look at informants, artifacts, such as letters, drawings, family photographs, pornographies, work settings, and work products; and see people individually, as couples, en masse. Ethnographers hardly do this; psychoanalysts doing only analysis cannot. Being in no rush helps, as do avoiding the rigors of scientific method, having no goals, and accepting incompleteness and uncertainty. Enough self-congratulation.