{"product_id":"second-skin-inside-the-worlds-of-fetish-kink-and-deviant-desire-anastasiia-fedorova-hardcover","title":"Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire -- Anastasiia Fedorova, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA taboo-bursting, personal and cultural tour through different sexual fetishes that asks: \u003ci\u003eDo we have the courage to look at our desires directly, and express them unapologetically\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twenty-first-century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects: we covet a Birkin bag; we keep sneakers box-fresh. We are all, in a sense, all fetishists. But occasionally this desire spills into something more subversive. \u003ci\u003eSecond Skin\u003c\/i\u003e offers a tour through the materials, objects, and power dynamics commonly fetishised, unpacking their histories, their expressive potential, and the communities they give rise to. Drawing from her encounters with fellow fetishists and kinksters, it is also the story of Anastasiia Fedorova's own journey of what it means to come to terms with one's sexuality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between memoir, cultural criticism, reportage, erotic writing, and social history, \u003ci\u003e Second Skin \u003c\/i\u003eis a researched and topical book that encourages us to rethink how we see not only our own desires, but the world that creates them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anastasiia Fedorova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646223350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANASTASIIA FEDOROVA\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, curator, and researcher based in London. She has written for Dazed, i-D, Frieze, Vogue, and The Guardian, among other publications. She has established herself as an expert in the fields of kink and fetish, and has spoken at the ICA, the Barbican, Central Saint Martins, and London's Klub Verboten. She is also one- third of the team behind HÄN, a contemporary queer archive dedicated to lesbian, dyke, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming creative expression. \u003ci\u003eSecond Skin\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anastasiia Fedorova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47640899879140,"sku":"9781646223350","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781646223350.jpg?v=1770248514","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/second-skin-inside-the-worlds-of-fetish-kink-and-deviant-desire-anastasiia-fedorova-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}