About one in ten Americans is involved with bondage, spanking, erotic role-play, body modification or other unconventional lifestyles. And each one of them is surrounded by a constellation of friends, lovers, parents, children and co-workers — who may feel frightened, hurt or bewildered by lifestyles they don't understand.

Now, for anyone who's ever overhead a conversation, glimpsed a toy, or been startled by a tattoo, there's When Someone You Love Is Kinky, a sympathetic and comprehensive handbook for helping you understand the behaviors and lifestyles of the people you care about. Therapist Dossie Easton and writer/educator Catherine A. Liszt (Janet W. Hardy) team up once again to help allay your fears and uncertainties and build bridges of communication that will last a lifetime.