Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire - Hardcover

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Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire - Hardcover

Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire - Hardcover

by Anastasiia Fedorova
$27.00
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by Anastasiia Fedorova (Author)

A taboo-bursting, personal and cultural tour through different sexual fetishes that asks: Do we have the courage to look at our desires directly, and express them unapologetically?

The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists.

In twenty-first-century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects: we covet a Birkin bag; we keep sneakers box-fresh. We are all, in a sense, all fetishists. But occasionally this desire spills into something more subversive. Second Skin offers a tour through the materials, objects, and power dynamics commonly fetishised, unpacking their histories, their expressive potential, and the communities they give rise to. Drawing from her encounters with fellow fetishists and kinksters, it is also the story of Anastasiia Fedorova's own journey of what it means to come to terms with one's sexuality.

Moving between memoir, cultural criticism, reportage, erotic writing, and social history, Second Skin is a researched and topical book that encourages us to rethink how we see not only our own desires, but the world that creates them.

Author Biography

ANASTASIIA FEDOROVA is a writer, curator, and researcher based in London. She has written for Dazed, i-D, Frieze, Vogue, and The Guardian, among other publications. She has established herself as an expert in the fields of kink and fetish, and has spoken at the ICA, the Barbican, Central Saint Martins, and London's Klub Verboten. She is also one- third of the team behind HÄN, a contemporary queer archive dedicated to lesbian, dyke, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming creative expression. Second Skin is her first book.

Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN
Publication Date: February 03, 2026
ISBN9781646223350
Author Anastasiia Fedorova
PublisherCatapult
GenreHistory and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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ANASTASIIA FEDOROVA is a writer, curator, and researcher based in London. She has written for Dazed, i-D, Frieze, Vogue, and The Guardian, among other publications. She has established herself as an expert in the fields of kink and fetish, and has spoken at the ICA, the Barbican, Central Saint Martins, and London's Klub Verboten. She is also one- third of the team behind HÄN, a contemporary queer archive dedicated to lesbian, dyke, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming creative expression. Second Skin is her first book.

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