America’s Having a Moment…And it’s a Kinky One
Anyone who watched this season’s premier of HBO’s “Mad Men” will have witnessed the S/M power play between Don Draper and his lovely new bride. Keira Knightly’s on-screen spanking in Kronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” sparked a cavalcade of press. And in the past few weeks it’s been impossible to avoid the story of E L James, the British working mother whose BDSM novel launched her into Hollywood super-stardom, with the #1 selling book in the world and a $5 million movie deal.
Bondage books have been around forever. In 1965 when the first American edition of The Story of O was published,
