How did you start exploring your submissiveness in D/s play?
In adolescence, I awoke to a secret and very powerful need to submit, but I had no idea how or who to ask. I tried mere spankings, but I discovered I craved something more – something visceral that I could not articulate and was too ashamed to admit. Eventually, I sought out and found where and how to ask for the “it” I had yet to name: Your dominance. My surrender. I still crave it deeply every day.
read moreI didn’t call red, but the scene was definitely over. I curled into a fetal ball and cried, and I pretended not to hear my Dom’s instructions to clean up myself and our toys. That would really mean it was done.
read more“Within the incredibly diverse LGBT community, the worldwide Leather/fetish/kink family is undoubtedly one of its most close-knit subcultures. Leathermen, Leatherwomen, and their allies have created a large and diverse — yet simultaneously intimate — network from Amsterdam to New York City…”
link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jed-ryan/american-masterslave-stor_b_10056986.html
read more“A new documentary about ‘pup play,’ the (often though not always sexual) act of dressing and inhabiting the role of a dog while another person takes on the role of handler or trainer, is about to be unleashed on Great Britain’s Channel 4, bringing new focus to a subculture that—according to some members—is ready to go mainstream…”
link: http://jezebel.com/forever-in-the-dog-house-these-men-live-their-lives-as-1778635750
read more“It all started with Helena. For me, she is everything. As I sat alone one night, in the middle of the Omani desert, feeling gross and broken and alone, Helena had my back. I needed a friend, and she, as best friends do, showed up…”
link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/04/19/how_shakespeare_helped…
read more“Sadist Faction’s coffee table is innocuous at first glance, but it’s actually one of the most provocative pieces of home furnishing you’re likely to ever see.* That’s because, unlike the generic stuff found in your average furniture outlet, this coffee table is also great for flogging, spanking, and general bondage fun…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/what-its-like-being-a-professional-male-dom-for-women
read more“Achieving the perfect work-life balance is tough, whichever industry you’re in. But when that industry involves sex, that balance gets even tougher. From first dates to long-term relationships, is there ever a right time to tell your sex partner that you also have sex for money?…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/sex-workers-talk-about-their-dating-lives-876
read more“If British author L.S. Hilton had her way, her new book Maestra would come with a warning label on it. ‘It would say, “THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY,”‘ says Hilton, who spoke with The Post on the telephone from the Gritti Palace in Venice, Italy…”
link: http://nypost.com/2016/04/21/this-years-most-erotic-novel-makes-50-shades-look-like-the-bible
read more“Remember the opening club scene in Blade? Imagine that, but instead of men in short-sleeved bowling shirts and Kangol hats, you have guys in rubber jock straps and stilettos. Women in corsets and pasties rather than capri pants and pleather jackets…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/25-year-torture-garden
read more“Sex is great. Adding more partners into the mix should, on paper, make it even better. As someone already involved in the fetish world, I’ve watched the Tinder ‘dating apocalypse‘ and the ‘50 Shades of Grey effect’ collide as people younger than your classic middle-ager move into kink and swingers groups…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/young-swingers-on-their-best-and-worst-orgies
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