Introduction -- Submitting to a loving mistress: BDSM in William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman comics -- Structures of desire: BDSM in the science fiction and fantasy of Samuel R. Delany -- "This wondrous death": power, sex and death in the science fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. -- Death, sex and the cylon: Battlestar Galactica's existential kink theory -- "Sounds like kinky business to me": BDSM on Buffy and Angel -- "It's about trust": slavery and ethics in the dollhouse.