Notes

1 Introduction: BDSM + SF&F = Love

1. Jeffrey Weeks (1985) showed that there is a “latent imperialism” at work whenSM claims to offer special insight into the truth of sexuality (239). I make nosuch claims. Indeed, I do not believe, after queer theory, that it is possible tospeak of a true sexuality.

2. See, for example, Taylor and Ussher (2001); Langdridge and Butt (2004, 2005);Moser and Kleinplatz (2005); Kleinplatz and Moser (2007); Reiersøl and Skeid(2006).

3. The equivalent “old scene” in London also featured rather rigid roles(Beckmann 2009: 119).

4. The conflict over lesbian BDSM continued well into the 1990s, when crit-ics published Unleashing Sadomasochism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism inthe Gay Nineties (Reti 1993). The heirs of Samois defended the “diversityof perversity” and renewed their call for unity among threatened eroticminorities in The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader (Califia and Sweeney1996).

5. This type of kinky fantasy role-playing began to appear online in the 1990s,in IRC channels such as #snuffsex, #gallows and #dolcett. Dolcett is a popu-lar BDSM artist specializing in representations of extreme torture, snuff andcannibalism.

6. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor presents as a straight male masochist(Siegel 2007: 342) who finds pleasure in letting go of control (Ibid.: 352).While I certainly agree that Nine Inch Nails songs like “Discipline,” “Hap-piness in Slavery” and “Meet Your Master” contribute to a kinky discourse,a close reading of “Head Like A Hole” reveals that it is about bowing downbefore the god money, and is therefore more a critique of capitalism than amanifesto for erotic submission (contra Weiss 2006a: 109).

7. Delany’s paraliteratures include SF, comic books and pornography. In onesense, paraliterature is the ghetto against which the ivory tower and itscanon are defined. But because the relationship between literature and par-aliterature is above all a power relationship, it can be reversed at anytime. Thus Delany argues that SF “has used its marginal status as a posi-tion from which to criticize the world” (1999: 150). Similarly, kinky fictioncan criticize the concept of a monolithic normative sexuality. Kinky SFcould, ironically, benefit from a doubly marginal (hence doubly critical)position.

8. Indeed, Buffy sometimes places the fantastic struggle between good and evilin the deep background, in order to foreground the naturalistic emotionalstruggles of individual human characters like Xander (“The Zeppo,” B3.13) orAndrew (“Storyteller,” B7.16).

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2 Submitting to a Loving Mistress: BDSM in WilliamMoulton Marston’s Wonder Woman Comics

1. Freud saw male sexual dominance as a normal feature of mature “genital” sex-uality. Thus he argued, for example, that at the stage of genital primacy, malesadism “takes on, for the purposes of reproduction, the function of overpow-ering the sexual object to the extent necessary for carrying out the sexual act”(1920/1989: 65).

2. However, a significant minority of kinksters prefer Risk Aware ConsensualKink or RACK (see Chapter 1).

3. Gini Scott (1980/1997) found that long-term DS partners “are often espe-cially close. Their experimentation with power, roles, and fantasy contributesto an intimacy that produces closeness in both sexual and nonsexualareas” (77).

4. The idea that male political dominance was bad for women and men was awell-established part of Marston’s philosophy. In an earlier story, Hippolytehad already made the argument that “all men are much happier whentheir strong aggressive natures are controlled by a wise and loving woman!”(Marston and Peter 1943/2002: 221).

3 Structures of Desire: BDSM in the Science Fictionand Fantasy of Samuel R. Delany

1. Delany’s stories and novels almost always conclude with a date/place sub-scription, indicating when and where the work was composed. In the interestof describing historical context as accurately as possible, I have used thesewriting dates throughout the main text. Citations, however, refer to date ofpublication, rather than writing date.

2. Sadly, Marxism is no help here. As Rubin points out, “the issue of consenthas been clouded by an overly hasty application of Marxian critiques ofbourgeois contract theory to sex law and practice” (1981/1982: 222). So lib-eralism and Marxism share the suspicion that kink can’t be consensual. Butthe anarchist concept of consent, which is broader, deeper and more openthan those of most other political philosophies, may have room for kink(Call 2011).

3. See White (1985) for a good account of the enormous dilemmas whichfemale slaves faced, especially with respect to issues of sexuality andreproduction.

4. From Krafft-Ebing’s vast nineteenth-century inventory of perversions (Krafft-Ebing 1886/1969) through today’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders (DSM), BDSM has remained one of psychology’s great obsessions.Moser and Kleinplatz (2005) have argued eloquently that the American Psy-chiatric Association should remove sexual sadism and sexual masochism fromits DSM. Although the paraphilias will likely remain in the DSM, the proposedrevisions to DSM-5 would distinguish paraphilias from paraphilic disorders.This is meant to reflect a consensus among clinicians that paraphilias such assexual sadism or sexual masochism “are not ipso facto psychiatric disorders”(American Psychiatric Association 2010).

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5. In BDSM communities, “consent” typically refers to fully informed, con-scious, deliberate choice. Henkin and Holiday (1996) note that “for an activityto be consensual all participants must have agreed to it; consensuality impliesnot only that they are conscious of what they are going to do, but also thatthey are competent to give their consent” (38). Given what we know of Korga,it seems highly unlikely that he is competent to consent.

6. Cannibalism emerged as a popular fantasy role-playing fetish in thelate twentieth century. Fetishistic cannibalism was the topic of Usenet’salt.sex.snuff.cannibalism newsgroup during the 1980s and 1990s. This fetishwas represented in the artwork of the popular BDSM artist Dolcett, and in theJapanese guro (“grotesque erotic”) tradition.

7. Delany’s numbering scheme seems to designate, very roughly, the distinctionsbetween what we would call a career or profession (job1), a job (job2), andhousework or domestic chores (job3).

8. The emphasis which Delany places on negotiation is not surprising. Real-world BDSM communities often regard negotiation as one of the mostimportant skills. Jay Wiseman calls it the most important (1998: 57). PatCalifia points out that these communities use negotiation for everything fromindividual scenes to entire relationships (2001: 25).

9. Interestingly, Lacan said of the analytic method that “its operations are thoseof history” (1968: 19).

4 “This Wondrous Death”: Power, Sex and Deathin the Science Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.

1. My hypothesis is that each one of Alice Sheldon’s authorial identities consti-tutes a distinct persona. In the very postmodern epistemological space whichDr. Sheldon clearly inhabited, each one of these personas would, of course,have its own gender identity. I therefore use masculine pronouns when refer-ring to Dr. Sheldon’s male persona (James Tiptree, Jr.). I employ femininepronouns when referring to Alice Sheldon, or to Dr. Sheldon’s female literarypersona, Raccoona Sheldon.

2. Tiptree was so fascinated with this concept that he explored it twice, first inshort story form in “We Who Stole the Dream” (Tiptree 1978/1981), then inBrightness Falls From the Air (Tiptree 1985).

3. Baramji’s decision is probably informed by the circumstances surrounding theend of Alice Sheldon’s life. She had contemplated suicide for many years.In 1977, as her husband Ting was slowly going blind, Alice proposed thatthey enter into a suicide pact. Ting agreed to consider suicide in four orfive years (Phillips 2006: 366). Alice wrote a suicide note dated September1979 (Ibid.: 390), but did not act on her plans until 1987. In May of that year,as her health and Ting’s continued to decline, Alice Sheldon shot and killedTing, then herself. This move had been foreshadowed in a Tiptree tale called“The Only Neat Thing to Do” (Tiptree 1986c). In this late novella, an intrepidyoung explorer named Coati Cass finds her body inhabited by a sympatheticalien life form called Syllobene. Cass and Syl form an erotic friendship. Butwhen they learn (in a classic Tiptree move) that Syl’s reproductive process willprove deadly to Cass and to any human who finds her ship, they set the ship’s

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controls for the heart of the local sun. This story suggests that Tiptree admiredlovers who chose double suicide when faced with an ugly death. For Tiptreeas for Alice Sheldon, such chosen deaths could be loving and beautiful.

5 Death, Sex and the Cylon: Battlestar Galactica’sExistential Kink

1. The Cylon are a diverse race. In addition to the humanoid models, theCylon also includes “lower” forms such as the robotic Centurions and thesemi-sentient living spacecraft known as Raiders. The Hybrids represent a“higher” form: these hyperintelligent beings are the brains of the Cylonbasestars, and at least one humanoid Cylon model (the Twos) considerthe inscrutable, non-linear chaos of Hybrid speech to be the literal wordof God.

2. Most dialogue quotations are drawn from Sadgeezer transcripts, available athttp://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/. I have made a few minor correc-tions. Dialogue quotations from the second half of Season 4 are my own.

3. Sartre (1943/1956) identified love and hate, along with sadism andmasochism, as basic modes of being-for-others (Part Three, Chapter Three).This suggests that these concerns are not unique to psychoanalysis: they arealso vital to the existential analytic.

4. The existential approach in psychology was developed in the mid-twentiethcentury by Rollo May and others. Heidegger’s philosophy of death remains amajor concern for analysts working in this tradition. See Mandic (2008).

5. The show treats male homosexuality in similar terms. A series of short“webisodes” appeared on the Web but were never broadcast as part of theseries. These webisodes reveal that Lt. Felix Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) wasin a relationship with Lt. Louis Hoshi (Brad Dryborough). Shortly after thewebisodes appeared, Gaeta became an embittered mutineer; he was even-tually executed. Like Cain, Gaeta “came out” to the show’s audience—andwas immediately shown to be both evil and doomed. As Burrows (2010)observes, the character of Gaeta emphasizes the association of queernesswith criminality, monstrosity, abnormality, and opposition to the historicalorder (216).

6 “Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me”: BDSM on Buffyand Angel

1. All dialogue quotations are taken from the excellent Buffyverse DialogueDataBase at http://vrya.net/bdb/index.php. For a complete listing of all Buffyand Angel episodes, see http://vrya.net/bdb/ep.php. The dialogue quotationswhich form the titles of this chapter, its sections and sub-sections are takenfrom the following episodes: Anya says “Sounds like kinky business to me” in“Storyteller” (B7.16). Giles says “I believe the subtext here is rapidly becom-ing text” in “Ted” (B2.11). Willow says “Did we not put the ‘grr’ in ‘grrl’?” in“Living Conditions” (B4.2). Fred says “It . . . turns the TV into a two-way con-duit with direct access to the viewer!” in “Smile Time” (A5.14). The First as

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Drusilla says “That’s why our kind make such good dollies” in “Bring On theNight” (B7.10). Anya says “Pervert!” and Xander replies “Other Pervert!” in“The Gift” (B5.22). Buffy says “It’s about power. Who’s got it. Who knowshow to use it” at the beginning of “Lessons” (B7.1).

2. As Kevin Andrew Murphy has noted, the BBC considers science fiction andfantasy to be children’s viewing; as such, they are typically scheduled for the“teatime” slot and rigorously censored (2003: 142).

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Index

24/7 BDSM, 1928mm (film), 15

Acker, Amy, 157, 185actives (Dollhouse). see dollsAdama, Lee (Major, Colonial Fleet),

130Adama, William (Admiral, Colonial

Fleet), 136, 143–4adult baby play, 44Advocate, The, 5after care, 165, 185Against Sadomasochism, 5Agathon, Hera, 131, 141, 143–5Agathon, Karl (Captain, Colonial

Fleet), 130–1, 141, 143–4Agathon, Sharon (Number Eight

Cylon; Lieutenant, ColonialFleet), 130–2, 136, 140–1, 143–4

age of the switch, 8, 151AIDS, 6Alexander, Jenny, 149–50, 152Alexandria, Love School at, 32algotoxin, 114–16“All Along the Watchtower”, 144, 146Alpha (Alan Tudyk), 185–6Alstein, Dr. Alan, 106–8Alstein, Dr. Anne, 107–8alt.sex.snuff.cannibalism (Usenet

group), 196Altered Carbon, 24Amarra, Gem of, 167Amazing Stories, 16Amazon, 19, 25, 27, 30–2, 36–41,

43–50, 52–3, 55–6, 156American Psychiatric Association, 195amnesia, 72, 162, 189Amy-Chinn, Dee, 158, 161, 163anarchism, 62–3, 74–5, 93, 195Andrew (Tom Lenk), 148, 170–1, 178,

194

Angel (David Boreanaz), 148–51, 155,157, 166–8, 172–4, 176, 178–9

compare AngelusAngel (television show), 19, 26,

147–51, 153, 168–9, 171–5,179–82, 197

Angel Investigations, 172Angelus (David Boreanaz), 150, 166,

168, 172, 174compare Angel

Anya (Emma Caulfield), 151–3,169–71, 178, 197–8

aphrodisiac, 167Aphrodite, 32, 38, 40, 46, 50Apollo. see Adama, Lee (Major,

Colonial Fleet)aporia, 128Arachnia (language), 78, 81artificial intelligence, 119Asch, Captain, 113–14Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 93,

111Athena

goddess, 38Number Eight Cylon. see Agathon,

Sharon (Number Eight Cylon;Lieutenant, Colonial Fleet)

audience, 3–5, 16, 23, 25, 34, 37, 41–2,44, 49, 51, 53–4, 57, 59, 68, 75,94–5, 120, 124, 137, 146–9,151–3, 155, 158, 169, 180, 182,185, 189, 191–2, 197

authenticity, 120, 125, 129, 131, 134,136–7, 144

Authoritarian Personality, The, 48awakening, 193“Aye, and Gomorrah”, 66–7

Bacon-Smith, Camille, 23Baldwin, Guy, 6Ballard, J. G., 58Ballard, Paul, 184, 188, 190

212

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Baltar, Gaius, 122, 130, 132–3, 144–5Head Baltar, 145–6

Bamber, Jamie, 130band candy, 169Baramji, Dr., 116–17, 196Barr, Marleen, 97Bataille, Georges, 10–11, 24, 90, 92,

128Battis, Jes, 86Battle, Hinton, 162“The Battle of the Sexes in Science

Fiction”, 91Battlestar Galactica (television show),

11, 18, 26, 119–20, 122–3, 129,131, 138–46, 189

BBC (British BroadcastingCorporation), 151, 158, 198

Beeler, Stan, 149Beeta Lamda sorority, 43–4Being and Time, 119–20, 124, 126–8being-for-others, 121, 197being-towards-death, 119–21, 124–6,

129, 131Bellona (city), 71–2Benz, Julie, 166Bering, Myka, 25Bey, Hakim, 74Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 120Bienvenu, R. V., 3Big Bad, 159, 185Bigelow, Kathryn, 24bisexual, 5–7, 22Bizarre (magazine), 3–4Black Worlds, 115Blackford, Russell, 81Blattner, William, 127–8blood play, 173–4Blue Spirit Masters, 38bodies, 10, 13, 38, 98, 120, 122–3,

132, 134, 138, 145, 149, 183–4,187–8, 190, 193

bondage, 2–4, 35–41, 43, 46–50, 54–5,61, 103–4, 172, 186

bondage and discipline (BD), 1–4, 27,35–40, 43–4, 48

Boomer (Number Eight Cylon), 134,136, 143–4

Boreanaz, David, 148Borg, 14

bottom, 4, 7, 30, 151, 161, 171starting from the bottom, 39

Boyd. see Langdon, Boydbracelets of submission, 32, 38–41Brand, Nicki, 25breath play, 25, 178Brendon, Nicholas, 154The Bridge of Lost Desire. see Return to

NevèrÿonBrightness Falls From the Air, 114–17,

196Brink, Topher, 184–5, 187–8, 191Broderick, Damien, 61Bron. see Helstrom, BronBrown, Jeffrey, 165–6Brown, Wendy, 64Buffy (Slayer, the). see Summers, BuffyBuffy the Vampire Slayer (television

show), 19, 24, 26, 147–54,156–60, 162, 164, 166, 169,171–2, 177–82, 189, 194, 197

Buffybot, 160Buffyverse, 147, 149–54, 157–8, 163,

165–74, 177, 179, 182, 197Bug Jack Barron, 21Bunn, Geoffrey, 28, 30bunny cuffs, 15Burkle, Winifred (“Fred”), 157, 171–3,

175–6, 182, 197Burr, Vivien, 151–3, 166Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 17Burrows, Karen, 140, 197Butler, Octavia, 65, 187Byrne, Olive, 32

see also Richard, Olive

Caesar, Julius, 31–2Cain, Helena (Admiral, Colonial

Fleet), 139–41, 197Califia, Pat, 5–9, 14, 63, 196Callis, James, 122Calvert, Bronwen, 184camp humour, 149Campbell, John W., 19Candy, Etta, 43–4cannibalism, 10, 36, 79–80, 122, 194,

196Capek, Karel, 188, 192Capella (star system), 95

214 Index

Caprica (planet), 122Caprica (television show), 18, 21, 24Caprica Six (Cylon), 122, 132, 141–2Carel, Havi, 125, 127Carpenter, Charisma, 154Carradine, Keith, 188Cass, Coati, 196Catacombs (BDSM club), 5Catherine (aristocrat), 69–70Caulfield, Emma, 152Cavil (Number One Cylon), 134, 136censorship, 148, 151, 198Centaur (starship), 105Centurions (Cylon), 132, 134, 145,

197Chase, Cordelia, 154–5, 169–70, 172,

181–2Cheetah (supervillain), 42Child Study Association of America,

36CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 89civil war

American, 65Cylon, 123, 134–5

civilization, 29, 121, 123, 142Civilization and Its Discontents, 29, 121Cleopatra, 31closet, 1, 15, 19, 154, 175

out of the closet, 147, 150, 153, 154,156, 161, 171, 172, 182

Clover, Joshua, 184Clym, 81–2cogito, Cartesian, 86cognitive estrangement, 18–19, 80,

95collar, 40, 74, 82–4, 86–7, 192“The Color of Neanderthal Eyes”, 111comics, 1, 25, 27–8, 33, 35–6, 40, 43,

46, 58, 194coming out, 14, 155–6, 161, 164, 169,

171Coming to Power, 5communities

BDSM, 2–3, 5–9, 12–15, 23, 36–7,52, 72, 74, 81, 87–8, 100, 140,153, 160, 162, 164, 182, 185,196

fan, 17, 19, 22–3, 68, 89–90, 149,158, 164

science fiction studies, 22Slayer, 157, 177–82vampire, 160, 168

compliance, 29, 39, 41, 50, 52–3, 55Connor (Vincent Kartheiser), 167,

176, 181consent, 6, 11–13, 23, 37, 39, 49,

52–3, 62–3, 71, 77, 79–81, 85,87–8, 96, 99, 101, 107, 113, 117,131–2, 140, 152, 154, 157, 160–2,164, 166, 171, 173, 175, 178–9,182–4, 187–90, 195–6

active consent, 12informed consent, 12, 77, 178

contract, 61, 63, 78, 188–9, 195Cordelia. see Chase, Cordeliacorsetry, 4costume play, 36Cottle, Sherman (M. D.; Major,

Colonial Fleet), 136, 144counterculture, 20Coutts, John, 3Cronenberg, David, 24Crusie, Jennifer, 158, 180, 182cultural fugue, 78cup of perpetual torment, 168cut-out chip, 184cyberplay, 9cyberpunk, 14, 23–5, 184cyborg, 16, 23, 140, 143, 145,

183Cylon, the, 120, 130, 133–4, 139, 141,

197Cylons, 119–20, 122–4, 129–46, 188

D’Anna (Number Three Cylon),131–4, 136–7, 140

Dameii, 114–16Damiem (planet), 117Dangerous Visions, 21, 66Daniels, Les, 30, 35Dann, Daniel (M. D.), 98–100Danthazar, seal of, 169Darla

Golden Age queen, 51–2vampire (Julie Benz), 166–7

Dasein, 119–21, 124–30, 134–5,137–9

Davidson, Guy, 75

Index 215

Dawn. see Summers, DawnDe Knight, Steven S., 164Dead-Evil Lesbian Cliché, 140death, 10–11, 81, 90–1, 99, 101–46,

163, 166, 168–70, 175, 189,197

death drive, 10, 120death fetish, 122–3, 131, 133, 138,

140, 143, 176little death, 11, 171death and sex. see sex/death

equationDeath and Sensuality, 10deconstruction, 128–9Delany, Samuel R., 1, 16–17, 19, 22–3,

58–88, 90, 93–4, 110, 173,193–6

Deleuze, Gilles, 190Deneb University, 114Denisof, Alexis, 171, 189Denny, 72–3Depeche Mode, 14Derrida, Jacques, 128–9, 137–8Desira (queen), 55desire, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10–13, 15, 20–1,

23–5, 29, 34, 39, 47–9, 52, 57,62–8, 72–3, 75–7, 79–81, 84–8,98–9, 104, 107–8, 110, 115, 123,128, 131–2, 140, 143, 151–2,154–5, 157, 159–62, 165–6,176–9, 184, 186–7, 189, 191

DeWitt, Adelle, 183, 186, 188,190–3

Dhalgren, 71–3Diana (Amazon princess) 36, 38–9,

41–2, 44, 46–7, 49–50, 52–3, 56–7see also Wonder Woman; Prince,

Diana (Lieutenant, U. S.Women’s Army Corps)

Diehl, Laura, 151Disch, Thomas, 23discipline, 2, 40–9, 194Dolcett, 194, 196#dolcett (IRC channel), 194Dollhouse, 19, 26, 183–93Dollhouse, Los Angeles, 184dolls, 183–93Dom (male dominant), 7

dominance, 2, 7–8, 12, 30, 39, 46–9,53, 63, 71–2, 100–1, 104, 116,132, 151, 161–2, 165, 171, 173,176, 185–6, 191

female dominance, 4, 9, 23–5,27–35, 40, 50–3, 152, 186

male dominance, 22, 29, 34, 39,51–2, 57, 107, 195

dominance and submission (DS), 1–2,4, 8, 10, 14, 22, 27–31, 34, 36–7,44–5, 48–51, 56–7, 61–2, 65–6,90–1, 93, 101, 110, 117, 132,151–2, 157, 163, 191, 195

dominatrix, 23, 25, 29–30, 149, 151,175, 182, 185–6

Domme (female dominant), 7, 186Don, 96–8“Don’t Laugh at the Comics”, 33“Doppelgängland”, 154–5, 159Douglas, Aaron, 143Downing, Lisa, 61downloading (Cylon resurrection

technique), 120, 122–3, 129–31,133, 135–6, 143

see also resurrection (Cylon)Dracula (Rudolf Martin), 179Dreyfus, Hubert, 123–6Dreyfusards, New, 126–8, 130–1,

133–4, 136–7Drusilla (Juliet Landau), 166–8, 198Dryborough, Brad, 197DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

of Mental Disorders), 195dungeons, 173–4, 187Dushku, Eliza, 162, 184Dyeth, Marq, 64, 78–82Dyethshome, 80dying, 127–9, 136, 146

“The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew”,110–11

Easton, Dossie, 8, 12, 28Echo (Eliza Dushku), 184–93

leather Echo, 185edge play, 15, 178Ehrenreich, Barbara, 5, 8Ellison, Harlan, 21, 58, 66embodiment, 183

216 Index

Emotions of Normal People, 29, 31–2,44, 50, 55

Emshwiller, Carol, 21End of Line, 131–2Enlightenment, 70, 183Equinox (novel), 69–71Eros

god, 32planet, 47sexual drive, 121, 123

Escape from Freedom, 47Espenson, Jane, 138, 142, 159essentialism, 22, 29–30, 34, 42, 49,

56–7, 75–6, 120, 123Estéban, Captain (pilot), 97eternal recurrence, 139ethics, 6, 11–13, 16, 22–3, 26–7, 39,

53, 56–7, 59, 62, 66, 70–1, 74–5,81, 85, 92, 123, 151, 153, 160,164, 177–81, 185, 187

posthuman ethics, 61, 183–93eugenics, 141–2Eulenspiegel Society, 12evelmi, 79evolution, 121, 131existentialism, 11, 59–60, 96, 102,

104, 119–26, 129–30, 133, 135–6,141–2, 144

existential analytic, 121–3, 127–9,197

existential kink, 26, 123, 143,146

existential therapy, 133, 197

Faithasphyxiaphile (Juliette Lewis), 25vampire Slayer (Eliza Dushku), 162,

165, 169–70, 174, 177–81Family Circle, The (magazine), 33fans, 17–18, 23, 35, 69, 158, 167

fan communities. see communities,fan

fan fiction, 149, 155queer fans, 18

fantasygenre, 17, 19, 22, 26, 82, 198fantasies are hungrier than bodies,

10

kinky fantasy role-playing, 9–10,122, 126, 138, 160, 176, 194–6

schoolgirl fantasy, 171, 181Farmer, Philip José, 19–20fascism, 18, 27, 33–5, 44–9, 53, 56, 93Fayne-Valou (region of southern

Velm), 79femicide, 107–8feminism, 5, 8–9, 28–30, 34, 38–41,

45, 60, 149, 151–2civic feminism, 36, 38cultural feminism, 5libertarian feminism, 6power conscious feminism, 92–3,

100radical feminism, 6sex war feminism, 91–2, 95–7

fetishism, 3–4, 9, 14, 23–4, 72, 79–81,87, 122–3, 131–3, 138, 140, 143,148, 168, 173, 176, 185, 196

Final Five (Cylons), 132, 135, 142finitude, 119, 124–30, 135–6Finn, Riley, 178–9Firefly (television show), 18First, the (Big Bad), 181, 197Flight From Nevèrÿon, 85Folsom Street (San Francisco), 4Forbes, Michelle, 139foreshadowing, 160

inadvertent foreshadowing, 159Foucault, Michel, 8, 13, 62, 65, 89,

92–4, 101, 109, 156, 185Fox, Robert Elliot, 85–6Frank, Josette, 36Frankfurt School, 48Fred. see Burkle, Winifred (“Fred”)frelk (free-fall-sexual-displacement

complex), 66–7, 76Freud, Sigmund, 10, 28–9, 35, 86, 90,

120–3, 195Frodo (telepath), 98–9Fromm, Erich, 47

G-2, 53see also U. S. Army Intelligence

Gaeta, Felix (Lieutenant, ColonialFleet), 141, 197

Gaines, M. C., 33, 35–6Galactica (Battlestar), 131, 141, 144

Index 217

Galaxy (magazine), 19Galef, David, 102#gallows (IRC channel), 194games, 8, 13, 36–7, 42, 51, 65, 76, 101,

163, 166, 178, 181, 192–3“The Game of Time and Pain”, 86Gattaca, 18gay, 4–6, 22, 58, 60–1, 72, 110, 144,

147, 149, 156Gebhard, P. H., 4genital sexuality, 195Gentlemen, the, 170Gernsback, Hugo, 16–17gestalt therapy, 133Gethen (planet), 21“Get It Done”, 180Gibson, William, 23–4, 184Gift of Death, The, 129Giganta, 51–2Giles, Rupert, 156, 169, 179, 197Gjokaj, Enver, 187Glory (Clare Kramer), 156, 160Gold, H. L., 19Gomez-Martinez, Iliana, 143Gor (planet), 22Goreans, 22Gorgik, 65, 83–8, 193goth, 23–4Green, Seth, 155Greene, Lorne, 143Groosalug, 149, 173Grown Down Land, 42Gunn, Charles, 174–6Gunther, Paula, Baroness von, 48–50guro (grotesque erotic), 196Guyette, Charles, 3–4

Halfrek (Kali Rocha), 152Hallett, Andy, 149handler (Dollhouse), 184–6, 190Hannigan, Alyson, 153, 155Haraway, Donna, 140, 145, 183Harding, Matthew, 188, 191, 193Hardy, Janet, 8, 12, 28Harmony (Mercedes McNab), 159,

173–4Harris, Alexander (“Xander”), 151,

153–5, 169–71, 177–9, 194vampire Xander, 155

Harrison, George, 71–2Harry, Deborah, 25Hawk (Singer), 67–8Hayles, N. Katherine, 183Head, Anthony Stewart, 156Head Six (Cylon), 145–6healing narratives, 100, 184

see also therapeutic BDSMHearn (Kevin Kilner), 190–2Heckert, Jamie, 64Hegel, G. W. F., 70Heidegger, Martin, 11, 119, 124–9,

134, 137–9, 146Heinecken, Dawn, 162Heinlein, Robert Anson, 20–1Heldreth, Lillian, 91Helfer, Tricia, 122Hellmouth, 154Helo. see Agathon, Karl (Captain,

Colonial Fleet)Helstrom, Bron, 74–7Hendrix, Jimi, 146Hera. see Agathon, Heraheteronormativity, 6, 21, 76, 92, 94,

139, 150, 158, 166heterosexual. see straightHibbs, Thomas, 158high heels, 4, 24Highleyman, Liz, 9, 12, 62, 64–5, 84Hippolyte (Amazon queen), 38, 42,

50, 195Hitler, Adolph, 44, 48–9Hobby, Oveta Culp (WAAC Director),

45Hogan, Michael, 141Hogg, 70–1holding dimension, 174–6Holliday College, 30, 43–4Holliday Girls. see Beeta Lamda

sororityHollinger, Veronica, 91, 102, 106,

108holy water play, 167homoeroticism, 28, 30, 37, 148,

167homosexual. see gayHoshi, Louis (Lieutenant, Colonial

Fleet), 144, 197Hugo Award, 19, 68

218 Index

humanism, 123liberal humanism, 12, 61, 64–5,

183“Hush”, 148, 170Hybrid (Cylon), 131, 133, 146,

197hybridity, 139–41, 143, 145–6Hypnota, 53

identity politics, 6–7, 64, 72Illyria, 175–7immortality, 10, 120, 123–4, 128–30,

134, 137, 193imprint, 183–9, 191incest, 20, 90Industrial Diplomat, 78, 81infantilism, 44Internet, 9Inviere, Gina (Number Six Cylon),

139–40IRC (Internet Relay Chat), 9,

194ivory tower, 194

Jackson, Earl, 75–6Jameson, Fredric, 102Jared, Tom, 111–13Jaspers, Karl, 127Jedi mind trick, 125John (Number One Cylon), 123,

141–2Johnston, Georgia, 87Jones, Gerard, 32Jones, Matthew, 132, 139Jowett, Lorna, 132, 146, 155–6Juliani, Alessandro, 197Justine (Laurel Holloman),

171

Kamir, 111–13Kane, Christian, 174Kaufman, Philip, 14Kaveney, Roz, 159, 167Kaye, Dr. Aaron, 105Kaye, Lory, 105–6Kennedy (Iyari Limon), 156–7, 165Kent, Clark, 45Kid, 72–3Kiki (Eliza Dushku), 187

kink, 2–6, 8, 10–12, 14–16, 19, 22–8,30, 36–7, 43, 58–9, 61–4, 66–7, 72,74, 77, 80, 94, 147–56, 158, 160–4,166–9, 171–8, 181–2, 185, 189, 195

kink in a vanilla world, 14kink theory, 150online kink, 175; see also cyberplayyour kink is not my kink, 57, 81

kinkster, 3–8, 10, 12, 14, 29, 38–9, 63,68, 74, 94, 121–2, 126, 163–4,167, 195

see also pervertKinnard, Nolan, 191–2Klaw, Irving, 3–4Kleinplatz, Peggy, 10, 195Knox (Jonathan M. Woodward), 173Kobol (planet), 132Koontz, K. Dale, 190Korga, Rat, 77–80, 196Kosinski, Joseph, 24Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 195Kramer, Clare, 156Kranz, Fran, 184Kreider, S. Evan, 188Krell, David Farrell, 137–8Kristeva, Julia, 146Ku, Lieutenant Ekaterina, 113–14

Lacan, Jacques, 62–3, 66, 70, 86–7, 196Lachman, Dichen, 186Lampkin, Romo, 135–6Landau, Juliet, 166Langdon, Boyd, 184–7Lanya, 71–3Larbalestier, Justine, 109, 148, 165Lattimer, Pete, 25Lavery, David, 149Law and Order (television show), 14Lawless, Lucy, 131Lawrence, 75–6leather, 4, 6, 25, 72, 74, 148, 154, 172,

176, 181, 185leathermen, 4–6, 8, 58, 72–3Left Hand of Darkness, The, 21Le Guin, Ursula K., 17, 21Ledom, 21Lefanu, Sarah, 106Lenk, Tom, 148Lennix, Harry, 184

Index 219

lesbian, 5–6, 22, 46, 58, 98–9, 118,139–40, 147, 159, 165, 194

Lesbos, 46Lewis, Juliette, 25liberalism, 61–2, 75, 188, 195lie detector, 27–8life-philosophy, 127lifestyle BDSM, 192Lilah. see Morgan, LilahLilliloo, 103–4, 108limit situation, 127Lindsey. see MacDonald, LindseyLinnix, 116–17Little Bad, 174Locke, John, 188Long, Lazarus, 20lordosis, 107Lorne (Andy Hallet), 149Loufer, Tak, 72–3love, 1, 10, 13, 29, 32–3, 38, 40–1, 44,

46, 50–1, 54–5, 57, 66–7, 102–4,108, 110–12, 116, 121, 123, 131,138, 142–3, 146, 152, 155, 157,164–70, 176–7, 184, 187–8, 190,197

Lovers, The (novel), 19“Love is the Plan the Plan is Death”,

103–4Lyons, Charles, 28, 32

MacDonald, Lindsey, 174–5MacIntyre, Professor Ian, 106–7MacKendrick, Karmen, 11Maclay, Tara, 156, 159, 163–4Madeline (Miracle Laurie), 190Madonna, 14magic lasso, 28, 37–9, 49–50Magister, Thom, 4magnetic gold, 55mainstreaming, 14–16, 20, 23, 27, 34,

43, 54, 59–60, 74, 77, 147, 150,172

Mala, 41“Mama Come Home”, 95–6Mars

god, 41–2, 46–7planet, 17, 74

Marsters, James, 148Marston, Elizabeth, 32

Marston, William Moulton, 19, 25,27–58, 90

Marxism, 195Masoch. see Sacher-Masoch, Leopold,

Ritter vonmasochism, 2, 4, 7, 11–12, 24, 59,

61–2, 66–8, 72–3, 76, 78, 100,110, 121, 151, 161, 165, 168,189–90, 195, 197

female masochism, 151logical masochism, 76male masochism, 100, 150, 194

Master, 4, 7, 13, 49, 51, 56, 78, 84–6,88, 173, 185, 188, 192, 194

Master, the (Mark Metcalf), 155“Master and Servant” (song), 14Matrix, The, 14, 24May, Rollo, 197Maya, 97Mayer, Sheldon, 32–3, 35Mayor (Harry Groener), 178McDonnell, Mary, 134McNab, Mercedes, 159McTeigue, James, 18meat puppet, 184Mellie (Miracle Laurie), 186ménage a trois, 32meta-marginal, 60–1, 82Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, 18Meyer, Leisa, 46Michaels, Walter Benn, 61–2militarism, 35, 140Mill, John Stuart, 188miscegenation, 120, 139, 145Mistress, 7, 27, 31, 40, 44, 48–51, 53,

161, 165, 167, 184, 189–91Mistress of Pain, 155

Mitochondrial Eve, 145Mnerrin, 111–12Moggadeet, 103–4, 108“A Momentary Taste of Being”, 105–6monogamy, 8, 20–1, 32, 157, 171Montgomery, Carla, 158Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The, 20Moorcock, Michael, 21Moore, Ronald D., 18, 145Morgan, Lilah, 151, 153, 171–3Morgan, Richard K., 24Morrison, Toni, 65

220 Index

mortality, 120, 131, 135–6, 138Moser, Charles, 8, 10, 195Moss, Carrie Anne, 24Motion of Light in Water, The, 60Moulton, Charles, 54

see also Marston, William MoultonMulhall, Stephen, 127Muntersbjorn, Madeline, 187, 191–2Murchison, Joye, 54–6Murphy, Kevin Andrew, 198

Natalie (Number Six Cylon),133–6

nation, 53, 121, 138–9naturalism, 18–20, 194Nazi, 37, 43, 45, 47–50, 138Nebula Award, 66, 68necrophilia, 10, 66–7, 122Neptunians, 56Neuromancer, 23–4, 184Neuropolis (City of Minds), 193Nevèrÿon, 60, 76, 82–8, 173Neveryóna, 84New Worlds (magazine), 21newbie, 178Newton, Helmut, 14Niccol, Andrew, 18Nielsen, M. E. J., 13Nietzsche, Friedrich, 64, 87, 124,

126–7, 139Nikanj, 187Nine Inch Nails, 14, 194normalization, 15–16, 30–1, 54,

98Norman, John, 22November (Miracle Laurie), 190–1Noxon, Marti, 154, 164nudism, 20–1Number Eight Cylon (Grace Park),

120, 130, 134, 136, 143, 145see also Agathon, Sharon (Number

Eight Cylon; Lieutenant,Colonial Fleet); Boomer(Number Eight Cylon)

Number One Cylon (Dean Stockwell),120, 123, 133, 141

see also Cavil (Number One Cylon);John (Number One Cylon)

Number Six Cylon (Tricia Helfer), 120,123, 130, 134, 139, 142, 145

see also Caprica Six (Cylon); HeadSix (Cylon); Inviere, Gina(Number Six Cylon); Natalie(Number Six Cylon)

Number Two Cylon (Callum KeithRennie), 145, 197

Ochter, 115–17Octavia (Venturian ruler), 53–4Oedipal, 123, 142Old Guard, 4, 6–8, 13Old Ones, 175old scene, 194Olmos, Edward James, 136, 143Omali, Dr. Margaret, 98–100“Once More, With Feeling”, 148, 152,

161, 189Otherness, 16, 123, 140Oz (Seth Green), 155

Page, Betty, 3pansexual, 7Paradise Island, 30, 36–7, 42, 50paraliterature, 16, 61, 103, 194paraphilias, 195Park, Grace, 130–1, 143Parsons, Althea, 96–8Parsons, Ruth, 96–8pathologization, 3, 12, 15–16, 59, 65,

68patriarchy, 5, 9, 21–2, 40–1, 45–6, 51,

56, 65–6, 75–6, 91–2, 97–9, 114,118, 143–4, 150, 152, 179–80, 182

Pearl Harbor, 33Pearson, Wendy, 19, 73, 75, 94–5Pegasus (Battlestar), 139–40Pei, Lowry, 103Peltier, Max, 25Penikett, Tahmoh, 130, 143, 184Penn, Eleanor, 186performative, 125, 162Perrin, Daniel (U. S. Senator), 189perspective shift, 17–18pervert, 3, 5–6, 67–8, 71, 73, 76, 121,

192see also kinkster

Peter, Harry G., 41

Index 221

Phaedo, 129Phenomenology of Mind, The, 70Phillips, Julie, 108phone sex, 171Plan, The (film), 146play, 4, 7–8, 12–13, 36–8, 44, 64, 70,

76, 85, 101, 107–8, 115, 122, 133,155–8, 164, 166–8, 170–1, 178–9,181, 192

see also adult baby play; blood play;breath play; costume play;cyberplay; edge play; holy waterplay; pony play; snuff play;sunlight play; play-slavery

compare workplay-slavery, 7, 48–9, 53, 56, 65–6, 77,

82–8, 173, 184, 188–90pluralism, 6, 22, 28, 31–2, 59, 61–2,

70, 72–7, 80, 185polio (infantile paralysis), 54polyamory, 19–21, 28, 32, 132polyandry, 20polymorphous perversity, 155, 159pony play, 157pornography, 5, 69–71, 75, 194post-anarchism, 62, 74–5posthuman, 12–13, 26, 61, 99–100,

183–7, 189, 192postmodern, 7–8, 12, 23, 28, 64–5, 73,

91, 109, 143, 151, 186, 189, 196post-structuralism, 62, 65, 86, 112post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),

190Prince, Diana (Lieutenant, U. S.

Women’s Army Corps), 37, 45–6,53, 89

see also Wonder Woman; Diana(Amazon princess)

Priya (Dichen Lachman), 191pro domme (professional dominatrix),

186Psycho, Dr. (supervillain), 43Pylea, 173

queer, 6–7, 19, 29, 46, 77, 92, 94,148–51, 156, 158, 163, 165, 168,197

queer fans, 18queer history, 150

queer recognition moments, 148queer theory, 6, 150, 194

Quills, 14Quintana Roo, 96Quorum of Twelve, 135

R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), 188race, 9, 60, 65, 98, 130–1, 139, 141racism, 123, 138–9, 141Raiders (Cylon), 197Randolph, Clyde, 188rape, 15, 24, 71, 83, 90, 95–6, 158,

164–5, 179, 187, 190, 192date rape, 39demon rape, 180gang rape, 96, 139–41rape artists, 70–1, 75

RAT (Radical Anxiety Termination), 77Razor (film), 139“Recent Feminist Utopias”, 60red (safeword), 164Reform Island, 37, 48Renn, Max, 25representations, 10–11, 14–16, 19,

21–3, 25–6, 35, 54, 59, 139, 143,147–9, 153, 156–7, 159–60,172–3, 179, 183, 194

reproduction, 10–11, 19, 22, 31, 43,63, 97, 102, 105–6, 112, 120, 132,138–9, 142–3, 195–6

resoluteness, 120, 125, 131, 134, 144“Restless”, 179resurrection (Cylon), 130, 133, 135–6,

141–2resurrection hub, 135–6resurrection ship, 129–30, 134–5

ret con (retroactive continuity), 146Return to Nevèrÿon, 60, 86Reznor, Trent, 194Rhodes, Donnelly, 136Rhodes, Molly, 28, 30–1, 43Rhyonon (planet), 78–9Rice, Anne, 24Richard, Olive, 33

see also Byrne, OliveRichards, J. August, 174“Riders of the Purple Wage”, 21–2Rift-Runner-One (starship), 113Riley. see Finn, Riley

222 Index

Risk Aware Consensual Kink (RACK),12–13, 81, 167, 178, 195

Roberts, Adam, 25Robinson, Lillian, 28–30, 35, 41, 43Rogan, Alcena, 79Romanov, Stephanie, 171Rosenberg, Willow, 153–7, 159, 165,

178, 180, 182, 197dark Willow, 156vampire Willow, 155–6vanilla Willow, 155–6

Rosie the Riveter, 41, 47Roslin, Laura (President of the Twelve

Colonies), 134–5, 143Rossum Corporation, 183, 187–8,

190–3Rubin, Gayle, 5–8, 29, 63, 195Russ, Joanna, 60–1, 80–1, 91, 95–6,

110

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von,77–8, 150, 189–90, 193

Sade, Donatien Alphonse François,Marquis de, 11, 70–1, 150, 152

Sadeian system, 69–70, 171, 176, 179sadism, 2, 4, 7, 11, 24–5, 29, 36, 59,

70, 72, 80–1, 120–1, 123, 132,140–2, 151, 155, 166, 174–7, 192,195, 197

logical sadism, 75–6sadism and masochism (SM), 1–5, 8, 10,

12–15, 25, 58–9, 61–5, 68–9, 72, 74,121, 148, 153, 159, 166, 178, 194

sadomasochism, 4, 10, 59, 63, 67–8,121, 186

Safe, Sane and Consensual (SSC),12–13, 37, 178

safety, 9, 12, 37, 74safeword, 164, 173, 178Samois, 5, 140, 194S and M demon, 174–6Sarg, Small, 83–5Sartre, Jean-Paul, 59, 125, 141, 152,

197Saturnians, 52Saunders, Claire, 185–6, 189, 191Saxey, Esther, 148–9, 169Schalow, Frank, 138Schismatrix, 183

Schumacher, Joel, 15science fiction, 16–18, 25, 58–60,

68–9, 71, 82, 89, 94–5, 102–3,120, 183, 187–8, 198

Golden Age, 19–20, 25New Wave, 58

scientifiction, 16Scoobies, 170, 177Scott, Gini Graham, 30, 195“The Screwfly Solution”, 106–10Sebassis, Archduke, 173Second Coming, The, 194Second Life, 9Secretary (film), 14, 68“A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality”, 5Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 7“Seeing Red”, 164semiotics, 61, 86, 146service, 7, 40, 50, 53, 80, 100, 104,

117, 171, 188Seven (clone), 80“Sex and/or Mr. Morrison”, 21sex wars, 5–6, 23sex work, 184sex/death equation, 11, 101–2, 105–6,

110–11, 122–3, 166, 170sexual minorities, 56sexual revolution, 20Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of

America (SFWA), 66Shadow Men, 156, 180Shainberg, Steven, 14, 68Shanshu prophecy, 168Sharma, Rekha, 142Sheila (Discoverer), 101Sheldon, Alice (Major, U. S. Army Air

Forces; Ph.D.), 89–90, 109–10,117, 196–7

see also Sheldon, Raccoona; Tiptree,James, Jr.

Sheldon, Huntington (“Ting”;Colonel, U. S. Army Air Forces),196

Sheldon, Raccoona, 106–11, 117, 196see also Sheldon, Alice; Tiptree,

James, Jr.Sheppard, Mark, 135, 186Shuster, Martin, 187Siegel, Mark, 103

Index 223

Sierra (Dichen Lachman), 186–8,191–2

Silverberg, Robert, 89–90Simone, Gail, 54Simonson, Louise, 32Singers of the Cities, 67–8Sizemore, Tom, 25Slater, Cynthia, 5slavery, 7, 49, 52–3, 65–6, 77–9, 82–8,

173, 183, 188, 190, 193house slaves, 82–3compare play-slavery

Slayer, 153, 156, 159–60, 163, 167–9,177, 179–82

potential Slayer, 156–7, 181Primal Slayer, 179–80Slayer community, 157, 177–82

smart-assed masochist (SAM), 7Smith, Valentine Michael, 20snuff play, 10, 122, 126, 131, 140, 194,

196#snuffsex (IRC channel), 194Society of Janus, 5Socrates, 129Sones, W. W. D., 36Spaise, Terry L., 159, 162–3spanking, 41–2, 44, 150, 156, 169, 192Spanky (mystic), 150Spears, Britney, 15Spike (James Marsters), 148, 150–2,

156, 158–68, 170, 174, 176, 178,181

Spike, the (artist), 74–5Spinrad, Norman, 21Stableford, Brian, 17Stand and Model, 74Star Trek, 14, 23Star Wars, 17Starbuck (Kara Thrace, Captain,

Colonial Fleet), 144Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,

63–4, 77–82Stars Tears, 114–16Stein, David, 8, 12Steinem, Gloria, 30Sterling, Bruce, 183–4stigma management, 56Stockwell, Dean, 120Stonewall, 5, 72

Stoy, Jennifer, 166straight, 3–7, 21–2, 46, 60, 69, 110,

118, 149–50, 168, 194queer straights, 7

Strange Days (film), 24–5Stranger in a Strange Land, 20structuralism, 62Sturgeon, Theodore, 19–21, 110sub (submissive), 7

sub space, 11submission, 2, 8, 27, 29, 31, 39–40,

44–6, 48–50, 52–6, 100, 104, 111,132, 151, 194

female submission, 22, 32, 34, 57male submission, 29, 33–4, 50–2

subtext, 64, 149, 152, 154, 164, 168,182, 197

suicide, 196–7Summers, Buffy, 148, 151, 153–70,

172, 174, 177–82, 198Summers, Dawn, 160, 171Summers, Joyce, 169sunlight play, 167–8Sunnydale, California, 154–5, 167,

170, 172, 181Superman, 25, 33–4, 45supernova, 117Suvin, Darko, 18Sweet (Hinton Battle), 162switch, 8–9, 13, 28, 31, 104, 151–2,

163age of the switch, 8, 151

Switch, Gary, 12sword and sorcery, 60, 82Syllobene, 196syphilis, 166

take back the night, 152, 191Tanzania, 145Tara. see Maclay, TaraTarnsman of Gor, 22television, 14, 18, 25–6, 147–9, 151,

158–9, 192Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ),

74Tempura Joe, 186Tethys (city), 74therapeutic BDSM, 162–3, 193

see also healing narratives

224 Index

They, the (das Man), 124, 137, 144“Thinking Sex”, 6Thompson, Rachel, 162“Time Considered as a Helix of

Semi-Precious Stones”, 58, 67threesome, 72, 132

see also ménage a troisTigh, Ellen, 141–2Tigh, Saul (Colonel, Colonial Fleet),

141–2, 144Tillie, 95–6Time and Death, 126Time Enough for Love, 20Tiptree, James, Jr., 1, 19, 22–3, 89–118,

120, 196–7see also Sheldon, Alice; Sheldon,

RaccoonaTitan, 22Titanides, 22Tool Box (BDSM club), 4top, 4, 7, 30, 98, 149, 151, 165, 171

topping from the bottom, 7Topher. see Brink, TopherTorgson, Ivar, 50–1Tori (Rekha Sharma), 142TOTAL (computer network), 99toys, 4, 13, 38Trachtenberg, Michelle, 171Trevor, Steve (Major, U. S. Army

Intelligence), 37, 39, 46, 49, 52–4,56–7

“Trey of Hearts”, 101Trinity (Carrie Anne Moss), 24Trish (Nicholl Hiren), 175Triton, 73–7Triton (moon), 73–6Tron: Legacy, 24Tucker, Jeffrey Allen, 77, 86Tudyk, Alan, 185Twelve Colonies, 146Tyrol, Galen (Chief Petty Officer,

Colonial Fleet), 143

U. S. Army Intelligence, 45, 89Unleashing Sadomasochism, 194unlicensed sector, 74Up the Walls of the World,

98–100

V for Vendetta, 18Val (telepath), 98–9vampire, 23–4, 151–3, 155–7, 159–60,

166–70, 172–4vampire ghetto, 153, 168vampire kink, 166–8

van der Spek, Inez, 92, 101vanilla, 2–3, 14, 51, 56, 60, 95, 122,

153, 155, 162, 169–71, 174–5,177, 179, 188

Varley, John, 22Velm (planet), 79–80Venturia, 53Venus

goddess, 32planet, 55

Venus in Furs (Mistress), 77–8, 190,193

Venus Plus X, 21, 110Venus With Us, 31–2Vernon, Kate, 141Vessey, David, 129Victor (Enver Gjokaj), 187–8, 190–1Videodrome, 24–5vigil, 129, 134, 136–7, 144virtual reality, 24–5

WAAC (Women’s Auxiliary ArmyCorps), 45–6

WAC (Women’s Army Corps), 46, 89Wachowski brothers, 14Walker, Alice, 65Warehouse 13 (television series), 25Warm Worlds and Otherwise, 89Warren (Adam Busch), 156, 160Watcher’s Council, 179–80water sports, 70WAVES (Women Accepted for

Volunteer Emergency Service), 45,47

Weeks, Jeffrey, 194Weiss, Margot, 2, 7, 14–15, 194Wesley. see Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley“What is an Author?”, 89Whedon, Joss, 18–19, 26, 147–8, 152,

155, 159, 161, 182–6, 188, 192Whedonverse, 185White River First Nation, 143White, Carol J., 126

Index 225

“Why 100,000,000 Americans ReadComics”, 34

Wilcox, Rhonda, 149, 162Wilkinson, E., 15Willems, Brian, 133William the Bloody (James Marsters),

168see also Spike (James Marsters)

Williams, Olivia, 183Willie, John, 3Willow. see Rosenberg, WillowWiseman, Jay, 196“The Wish” (Buffy episode), 154–5Wolfram and Hart, 173–5, 179“The Women Men Don’t See”, 96–8Wonder Woman, 1, 14, 25, 27–57Wood, Robin, 165Woods, James, 25Woodside, D. B., 165work, 4, 13, 36–7

compare play

world collapse, 124, 126, 131, 133–4,137

world creation, 126World Science Fiction Convention, 68World War Two, 27, 33, 89“The World Well Lost”, 19World Wide Web, 79Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley, 152–3, 171–2,

176–7, 179dark Wesley, 171, 173, 176, 181

Xander. see Harris, Alexander(“Xander”)

Yellaston, Captain, 105Yost, Megan, 9Yugoslavia, 141

Zannez, 115Zarathustra, 126