Talk:Imaginative Sex

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I've deleted this, as it's factually incorrect: "With only one exception, every scenario in Imaginative Sex assumes a one-way power exchange ... in which the male is the absolute dominant in the encounter, and the female the absolute and total submissive. The sole exception is a scenario in which the man role-plays the part of a woman and the woman role-plays the part of a man, with the (male) "woman" submitting to the dominant (female) "man". Thus, Norman has preserved the dynamic of the male dominant and female submissive even when pretending to subvert this." John Norman's scenarios are indeed heavily male-dominant, but as written the text is incorrect. Wyvern 01:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

pre-BDSM
It's not fully explained in the article (and I'm not sure that it could be without a somewhat tangential discussion), but the modern BDSM movement didn't really come together until the 1980s, and the term "BDSM" itself doesn't seem to have been coined until 1990-1991, so Norman's 1974 book was not of course part of that... AnonMoos (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2011 (UTC)