Fascinating academic study of the fetish magazines available in Britain in the sixties. A real time-capsule piece of 'sexology' (what a word!), pitched in medical/psychoanalytic terms, but written sympathetically, and with not a little dry humor. A picture emerges of a rather lonely world, before the emergence of modern fetish culture, where everything was furtive and homespun. (And, I'm afraid, rather unsafe - female involvement seems restricted to indulgent wives and professionals.) An essential slice of history for anyone who has ever shared a dance-floor crowded with revellers in rubber and leather - kinky people have come a long, long way! ( )