Documenting (via paragraphs, poems, and pictures) the heart of the B&D/S&M netherworld as it existed for many in the 1980's and 90's—the desperation, the obsession, the passion, the gathering together of kinky souls in back alley clubs and support networks, the intimacy, the love …

Without lust on the planet, what would wax glad and lovely?
                                           - John Updike