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Sarah_Jayne · 11-12-2005, 02:37 AM

10. What the fuck is this book your researching and writing now?

I am writing a book that explores the nature of fetish. It is called Explain Your Fetish and it comes from me working a lot with fetishes in this industry. Many times I would start working on a fetish site and think 'how on earth did this person find out they were interested in this?' That combined with moving in the BBW community where many people think I am a fetish object made me want to know more about fetishes. So, I put up a website called Explain Your Fetish which is just a survey that asks people that consider themselves to have a fetish to answer the questions and tell me about there fantaties regarding the fetish, how they think it started with them, when the first time they acted on it was, what they do when acting on it and how it has effected their life both personal and public.

I put that up, used google and contacts to find forums and mailing lists where people with fetishes hang out and told them about the survey and within days the responses started to flood in. I took a break from writing it after Marc died so it is taking longer than I wish it would but in the past two years I have had over 3,000 replies to the survey and I have had to personally contact a lot of them for further interviews so the research has taken a long time.

The idea is to have these people tell the reader how they see their fetish through their own words and with me summing things up. There are books about fetish out there but the vast majority are snooty people looking down on the people they are writing about. My book is about these people telling the story themselves. If anyone has read any of Nancy Friday's books I want it to have a feel like that but still have the feel of something that could be used as a reference point for people that don't have fetishes to learn what particular fetishes are and perhaps get a better insight into why somebody might have that fetish.

I am finally on the point of writing it up and I am a few chapters into it. Today I am writing about cast fetishists.

11-12-2005, 02:37 AM
Sarah_Jayne Now with more Jayne Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 40,077	10. What the fuck is this book your researching and writing now? I am writing a book that explores the nature of fetish. It is called Explain Your Fetish and it comes from me working a lot with fetishes in this industry. Many times I would start working on a fetish site and think 'how on earth did this person find out they were interested in this?' That combined with moving in the BBW community where many people think I am a fetish object made me want to know more about fetishes. So, I put up a website called Explain Your Fetish which is just a survey that asks people that consider themselves to have a fetish to answer the questions and tell me about there fantaties regarding the fetish, how they think it started with them, when the first time they acted on it was, what they do when acting on it and how it has effected their life both personal and public. I put that up, used google and contacts to find forums and mailing lists where people with fetishes hang out and told them about the survey and within days the responses started to flood in. I took a break from writing it after Marc died so it is taking longer than I wish it would but in the past two years I have had over 3,000 replies to the survey and I have had to personally contact a lot of them for further interviews so the research has taken a long time. The idea is to have these people tell the reader how they see their fetish through their own words and with me summing things up. There are books about fetish out there but the vast majority are snooty people looking down on the people they are writing about. My book is about these people telling the story themselves. If anyone has read any of Nancy Friday's books I want it to have a feel like that but still have the feel of something that could be used as a reference point for people that don't have fetishes to learn what particular fetishes are and perhaps get a better insight into why somebody might have that fetish. I am finally on the point of writing it up and I am a few chapters into it. Today I am writing about cast fetishists.