Sacred Kink

“Leather becomes a metaphor for the spirit, that an individual is more
durable yet flexible, is beautiful and resilient.  In learning to polish boots, you
are learning how to polish your spirit.”
-Lee Harrington Sacred Kink

Normally when I get a book to review, I devour it quickly. I expected this would be the same with Femme’s Guide blogger  Lee Harrington’s latest treasure Sacred Kink, but the experience of reading it couldn’t have been more different, to the point where I took so much time, I kept expecting Lee to email me asking if I really was going to review this book!

Sacred Kink was something that I needed to savor. There is so much information, so many ideas, thoughts and experiences taking place within it I was unable to read it for long stretches at a time. Instead I found myself returning multiple, multiple times, sometimes with days in-between in order to let what I was reading digest. As a not particularly spiritual person, but as someone who’s found glimpses of spirituality as their soul has been transformed by leather, this book really spoke to me in ways I hadn’t completely expected.

Lee describes his book as text that dives “into the ways that erotic explorers are tapping into altered states of consciousness, and how to do so with a wide variety of approaches. From negotiation to aftercare, top trances to ordeals, sex magic to pain processing, erotic shape shifting to the spiritual calling of Mastery and Slavery” Which I think is a more accurate summary than I could come up with.

“Sacred Kink” was a book that very much kept me coming back for more, and my physical and very personal journal I write in several times a day, is littered with influential quotes that spoke to me and my life over my weeks of reading the book.

There is certain levity to Lee’s writing that I really appreciated. This is a book that could easily have run the risk of taking itself too seriously for my liking and it didn’t. As many times as I felt my breath catch in my throat with a recognition of the power of how we live and what we do, I found myself touched through laughter at the ways in which awakening can take many different forms “Sometimes it’s just about putting on the Godzilla costume, painting our lover up like the city of Tokyo, and having at it.”

I don’t want to be cliché and say that Sacred Kink has something for everyone, I’m sure it doesn’t. But, if you are someone whose life has been touched by leather, or if you’re kinky and looking to take that a step further, or if your just interested in these topics, I can’t recommend this book enough.

if you’re a femme author, artist or zinester I’d love to review your work for the site! If you’re interested, please shoot me an email at Sassafras@PoMoFreakshow.com

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• July Femme Prompt - July 1st, 2010
• being out & visible - June 26th, 2010
• The beauty of femme - June 13th, 2010