David Stein (BDSM author)

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David Stein (born in Pittsburgh in ✦July 17, 1948) David Stein grew up in Western Pennsylvania. After high school, he went off to study philosophy at New York University in 1965 and later at Northwestern, where he earned an M.A. degree and met all requirements for a Ph.D. except the dissertation, which he was too perfectionist to finish. In 1975 he fell into publishing and in 1977 landed back in New York City, where he got a job as a magazine editor (from which he was laid off in 2006). He’s lived there ever since except for a year in San Francisco to produce his story collection, "Boots Bondage and Beatings", and the nonfiction "Ask the Man Who Owns Him" for his new Perfectbound Press imprint. His romantic yet realistic novel about a gay Master/slave relationship, "Carried Away", was started in the late 1980s and completed and published, by Daedalus, in 2002.

In 1980 David co-founded New York City’s Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA), once the world’s largest gay SM organization, and served it in many capacities, from president to newsletter editor and program chairman, for the next 11 years. In 1983, for that group’s statement of purpose, David coined “safe, sane, and consensual SM,” now a ubiquitous slogan he has mixed feelings about. Retired from GMSMA, he co-founded and helped lead New York’s gay chapter of Masters And slaves Together, from which he is also now retired.

For six years he wrote the “Bond+Aid” safety column for Bound&Gagged magazine, and in 1996 he guest-edited issue #14 of International Lea­th­erman magazine, devoted entirely to real-world gay Masters and slaves. Over the years, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Drummer, DungeonMaster, International Leatherman, Mach, Power Play, and other periodicals as well as the antho­logies "Leatherfolk", edited by Mark Thompson (Alyson); "SM Classics", edited by Susan Wright (Mas­querade); "Horsemen", edited by Joseph W. Bean (Leyland); "Men on the Edge," edited by Christopher Pierce (StarBooks); and The Academy, a “novel­ology” by Laura Antoniou (Circlet Press). Some of his other writing is available online at his personal website, as is a fuller biographical essay.

Boots, Bondage and Beatings

Masters and slaves, tops and bottoms revel in boot worship, erotic bondage, and dick-stiffening beatings with fists, belt, or whip. But as heavy as the action gets, it never lacks emotional depth. david stein's first collection of short fiction features the same realism, fetishistic detail, and romance that made his novel, Carried Away (Daedalus, 2002), so memorable. In fact, the stories include a sexy "outtake" from the novel as well as a new epilogue that fans won't want to miss

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Also see [ Authors of erotica ] and/or [ Authors of BDSM stories ]

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