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David Stein

Goodreads Author

Born

in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States

July 17, 1948

Website

http://perfectboundpress.com

Genre

Gay and Lesbian, Fiction, Nonfiction

Member Since

September 2012

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Born in Pittsburgh in 1948, David Stein grew up in Western Pennsylvania. After high school, he went off to study philosophy at New York University in 1965 and later at Northwestern, where he earned an M.A. degree and met all requirements for a Ph.D. except the dissertation, which he was too perfectionist to finish. In 1975 he fell into publishing and in 1977 landed back in New York City, where he got a job as a magazine editor (from which he was laid off in 2006). He’s lived there ever since except for a year in San Francisco to produce his story collection, Boots Bondage and Beatings, and the nonfiction Ask the Man Who Owns Him for his new Perfectbound Press imprint. His romantic yet realistic novel about a gay Master/slave relationship, C Born in Pittsburgh in 1948, David Stein grew up in Western Pennsylvania. After high school, he went off to study philosophy at New York University in 1965 and later at Northwestern, where he earned an M.A. degree and met all requirements for a Ph.D. except the dissertation, which he was too perfectionist to finish. In 1975 he fell into publishing and in 1977 landed back in New York City, where he got a job as a magazine editor (from which he was laid off in 2006). He’s lived there ever since except for a year in San Francisco to produce his story collection, Boots Bondage and Beatings, and the nonfiction Ask the Man Who Owns Him for his new Perfectbound Press imprint. His romantic yet realistic novel about a gay Master/slave relationship, Carried Away, was started in the late 1980s and completed and published, by Daedalus, in 2002.

In 1980 David co-founded New York City’s Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA), once the world’s largest gay SM organization, and served it in many capacities, from president to newsletter editor and program chairman, for the next 11 years. In 1983, for that group’s statement of purpose, David coined “safe, sane, and consensual SM,” now a ubiquitous slogan he has mixed feelings about. Retired from GMSMA, he co-founded and helped lead New York’s gay chapter of Masters And slaves Together, from which he is also now retired.

For six years he wrote the “Bond+Aid” safety column for Bound&Gagged magazine, and in 1996 he guest-edited issue #14 of International Leatherman magazine, devoted entirely to real-world gay Masters and slaves. Over the years, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Drummer, DungeonMaster, International Leatherman, Mach, Power Play, and other periodicals as well as the anthologies Leatherfolk, edited by Mark Thompson (Alyson); SM Classics, edited by Susan Wright (Masquerade); Horsemen, edited by Joseph W. Bean (Leyland); Men on the Edge, edited by Christopher Pierce (StarBooks); and The Academy, a “novelology” by Laura Antoniou (Circlet Press). Some of his other writing is available online at his personal website, as is a fuller biographical essay. ...more

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David Stein’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 389 ratings · 47 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Academy (The Marketplace Series Book 4) by Laura Antoniou (Goodreads Author), Cecilia Tan (Goodreads Author), Karen Taylor 4.32 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice by Mark Thompson, Scott Tucker (Contributor), Jack Fritscher (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winner Takes All: Master/slave Fantasies by Christopher Pierce by Christopher Pierce (Goodreads Author), M. Christian (Goodreads Author), David Stein (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carried Away 3.75 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ask the Man Who Owns Him: The real lives of gay Masters and slaves by David Stein (Goodreads Author), David Schachter (Collaborator) 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boots, Bondage, and Beatings by David Stein (Goodreads Author), Axel J. Moeller (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer - A Memoir of the Sex, Art, Salon, Pop Culture War, and Gay History of Drummer Magazine - The Titanic 1970s to 1999, Volume 1 by Jack Fritscher, Mark Hemry (Introduction), Joseph W. Bean (Introduction) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men on the Edge by Christopher Pierce (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Apoapsis (Contributor), Kate Bachus (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[ [ [ Ask the Man Who Owns Him[ ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS HIM ] By Stein, David ( Author )May-20-2009 Paperback it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars