This book takes a look at normative violations that earn the violators a deviant identity in the eyes of the members of mainstream society. And so serious, likewise, that the lives of violators do revolve around the actions, the beliefs, or the characteristics, as well as the consequences such violations have, mainly with respect to the social reactions they generate in others. When others really don't like what you do, believe, or are, they usually let you know that in no uncertain terms, and this is likely to drastically alter your life. In other words, when we refer to "extreme" deviance, we are looking at the process and consequences of creating what Howard Becker refers to as outsiders (1963). Becker's examples do not match his theoretical approach because they are out of date (jazz musicians and marijuana smokers).

Introduction: The Significance of of Extreme Deviance - Erich Goode

PART I. EXTREME TATTOOING - Keith Durkin, Steven Hundersmarck Bod-Mod to the Max! An Introduction to Body Modification as Deviance - Mike Roselle Tattoos Are Like Potato Chips... You Can't Have Just One: The Process of Becoming and Being a Collector - Angus Vail Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body Modification of Neo Primitives - Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young Personal Account of a Tattoo Collector - Angus Vail Questions

PART II. BELIEVING THAT ONE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS - Stephanie Kelly-Romano Being Abducted by Aliens as a Deviant Belief: An Introduction - "Anonymous" Alien Attraction: The Subculture of UFO Contactees and Abductees - Christopher D. Bader Alien Abduction as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy Questions

PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane" Questions

PART IV. BELIEVING IN WHITE SUPREMACY White Supremacy as Deviance: An Introduction White Supremacy as Extreme Deviance - Kathleen M. Blee Interview with Matthew Hale - Russell K. Nieli What We Believe as White Racists - Tom Metzger Questions

PART V. HAVING AND ENDORSING ADULT-CHILD SEXUAL CONTACT Adult-Child Sexual Contact: An Introduction Pedophiles and Child Molesters - Keith F. Durkin and Steven Hundersmarck The World According to NAMBLA: Accounting for Deviance - Mary de Young From Victim to Offender - "Dave" The Boylove Manifesto - "jay_h" Questions

PART VI. EARTH FIRST! GOING TO EXTREMES TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT Earth First! An Introduction to the Radical Environmentalist Movement Earth First! Deviance Inside and Out - Rik Scarce Strategic Experimentation and Stigmatization in Earth First! - Douglas Lloyd Bevington I Am a Lowbagger - Mike Roselle Questions

PART VII. ENGAGING IN S&M SEXUAL PRACTICES S&M: An Introduction The Pleasure of Pain - Marianne Apostolides Sexual Spanking - Rebecca Plante The S&M Experience - "Jackie" Questions