Free Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission by Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame, Jon Jacobs Page A

education, and environment. Someone much brighter than me once said that there is only one erogenous zone in the human body, and that’s the space between the ears. If your brain interprets [something] as erotic, you will not feel it as pain. What makes someone aroused by the smell of three-day-old sweat socks? Damned if I know. But I know it happens, and more power to them. They’re not harming anybody. If that’s what gets them through the night, God bless them.
    There is a misconception about the people involved in the Scene—what we term “Ted Bundy-itis.” When you discuss S&M, the first thing people think about is a Ted Bundy type preying on unsuspecting women and getting sexual kicks by maiming and killing. It’s as far away from the Scene as it is from mainstream society.
    The people in this Scene are, by and large, older, more intelligent, and probably better off economically than the average person. Maybe they need more mental stimulation to be erotically aroused. Maybe as you get older, you need more to keep your interest. I’ve been involved in the Scene in Europe, and I find that the people who are seriously involved can buy and sell me three times over, whereas, I guess, the poor garage mechanic is willing to hump whatever he can grab on a Friday night. I don’t know if that’s an elitist attitude; it’s certainly self-serving, since I’m into the Scene. But it’s a personal observation. That’s one of the reasons I started
The S&M News
. It is a newspaper aimed strictly at adults. We’re trying to cover every aspect of the fetish scene. [It’s] strictly informational, not erotic. I am gratified to say that the response has been nothing short of phenomenal.
    My personal beliefs are basically [that] whatever people want to do without causing permanent harm to another is [okay]. Personally, I do not like any kind of a scene that causes injury. I would never draw blood. I believe that the skin of the body is there to protect what’s in your body from outside forces, be it germs, or whatever. Scatological play, to me, once again, is onthe edge of being unhealthy. [It] turns me off. I have gone as far as I want to go. I would not go any further. I do not get off sexually [from] inflicting pain.
    My [college] degree is in photographic science. After graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology, I went to work for a large motion picture processing laboratory, and ran that for a while, then worked for an English corporation building an emulsion coating plant in the United States. I’m a former class-A photographer with the film union and shot original footage for the film
Taxi Driver
. That’s basically how I got into this business.
    I have three different companies. One is Carter Stevens Presents, where I produce and direct adult videos. I specialize in fetish-oriented material because the market for “straight” adult material is glutted. Most of my stuff is released by Chain of Command here in the States, and under Amsterdam in Europe. I also shoot and provide production services for many other fetish companies. About a year ago I started
The S&M News
. Our press run at the moment is about 10,000. I [also] have a partner in Europe, and the two of us sell American product to Europe and try to sell European product to America, although that’s not as easy. Americans have this thing about foreign films: They don’t like them. [Also], the adult material in Europe is much more adult. The stuff that they’re making, especially in the fetish field, is too hard for current American standards.
    [Generally], you have people who want to turn out a decent product, you have people who are turning product just for the bucks, you have people who are exploiting a market, and there are people who are trying to cater to a market. Everybody’s taste is different, too. There are people who don’t want the real stuff. They want pretty girls who look like they tied themselves up and could just as easily