Confessions of an S & M Virgin
Jun 2012 · Sold by Penguin Group Australia
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Linda Jaivin gets a spanking as she interviews the manager of an S&M club. She steps into a kickboxing ring, and wears a penis for a week to find out how it feels to be a man. 'When I'm writing non-fiction,' she says, 'I tend to get into character.'In her hilarious and outrageous book, the author of Eat Me, Miles Walker, You're Dead and Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space describes the effects of PMT and tells the terrifying story of her friend the axe murderer. She reveals why she loves younger men and why sex makes her laugh. She takes us backstage at a Beijing rock concert, explores the secretive world of Chinese gays and lesbians, and gives an astonishing account of what happened the night the tanks rolled in to Tiananmen Square.
In Confessions of an S&M Virgin, Jaivin will tie you to your chair and make you laugh and cry and laugh again.
'Jaivin approaches communist China and penises with the same
determined irreverence...the writing is excellent, her mix of humorous
observation and hard facts perfect.' Weekend Australian
In Confessions of an S&M Virgin, Jaivin will tie you to your chair and make you laugh and cry and laugh again.
'Jaivin approaches communist China and penises with the same
determined irreverence...the writing is excellent, her mix of humorous
observation and hard facts perfect.' Weekend Australian
Linda Jaivin gets a spanking as she interviews the manager of an S&M club. She steps into a kickboxing ring, and wears a penis for a week to find out how it feels to be a man. 'When I'm writing non-fiction,' she says, 'I tend to get into character.'In her hilarious and outrageous book, the author...
About the author
Linda Jaivin was born in the United States, and graduated with honours in Asian history from Brown University. She studied, lived and worked for nine years in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, before moving to Australia in 1986.
In 1992 Jaivin co-edited the anthology New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices with Geremie Barmé. Her first novel, Eat Me, appeared in 1995, and was a bestseller in Australia and (as Mange-moi) in France, among other countries; it has been translated into a dozen foreign languages. She followed Eat Me with Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space; Miles Walker, You’re Dead; the novella Dead Sexy; The Infernal Optimist, which was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal; and A Most Immoral Woman, based on the affair between the Australian journalist George ‘Chinese’ Morrison and the American heiress Mae Perkins in China and Japan in 1904.
Jaivin has also written two works of non-fiction—the essay collection Confessions of an S&M Virgin and the China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon—along with numerous articles, stories and plays. She is a literary translator who has subtitled films by such leading Chinese directors as Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Hero).
Linda Jaivin lives in Sydney and is a visiting fellow in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University.
In 1992 Jaivin co-edited the anthology New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices with Geremie Barmé. Her first novel, Eat Me, appeared in 1995, and was a bestseller in Australia and (as Mange-moi) in France, among other countries; it has been translated into a dozen foreign languages. She followed Eat Me with Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space; Miles Walker, You’re Dead; the novella Dead Sexy; The Infernal Optimist, which was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal; and A Most Immoral Woman, based on the affair between the Australian journalist George ‘Chinese’ Morrison and the American heiress Mae Perkins in China and Japan in 1904.
Jaivin has also written two works of non-fiction—the essay collection Confessions of an S&M Virgin and the China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon—along with numerous articles, stories and plays. She is a literary translator who has subtitled films by such leading Chinese directors as Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Hero).
Linda Jaivin lives in Sydney and is a visiting fellow in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University.
Linda Jaivin was born in the United States, and graduated with honours in Asian history from Brown University. She studied, lived and worked for nine years in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, before moving to Australia in 1986.
In 1992 Jaivin co-edited the anthology New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese R...
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