Beneath the Skins: The New Spirit and Politics of the Kink Community Book

This is nothing more and nothing less than the collected stories of a journalist/writer who spent two years also working as a Dominatrix, not because of any personal interest in the lifestyle but because of the pay. It's a prurient dive into what a dungeon look(s?)/looked like Back In The Day.

Reading this was a little bit like watching Billie Piper in "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," only with less sex-- but just as much of the sexual/other people's secrets storytelling by a sex worker, plus some armchair psychoanalysis, and the conclusion that most people are "30% weirder than you think they are."

It's a fun read, with some interesting reflections on dual identities, on assholes (the human sort), on lying to your grandmother, and on who comes to a dungeon on Christmas.