By Stephen Lyng
What do skydiving, mountaineering, and downhill snowboarding have in universal with stock-trading, unprotected intercourse, and sadomasochism? All are excessive probability objectives. Edgework explores the realm of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the limits among felony and felony habit; unsleeping and subconscious acts; sanity and madness; applicable danger and stupidity. the prestigious participants to this assortment profile excessive risk-takers and discover their studies with chance via such themes as juvenile delinquency, road anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde artwork, company hazards, and severe activity.
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