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

An expansive, taboo-busting tour through different sexual fetishes - from latex and leather to medical gear and the gimp mask - that brings these subversive desires out of the dungeon and into the light.

About the author

ANASTASIIA FEDOROVA is a writer, curator and fetishist. She has written for DAZED, i-D, Freize, Vogue and the Guardian, among other publications, and has collaborated with kink and fetish institutions, including the UK Leather and Fetish Archive and Klub Verboten. Her work is dedicated to exploring the ways queer communities are archived and documented and to the poetic and radical potential of queer love and sex. Second Skin is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Anastasiia Fedorova
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.06.2026
• EAN: 9781803511924
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-192-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, Social and cultural history, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs