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Submission by Choice: How to Work Your Way Back to Yourself

by luna[KM]
Submission has been called a gift. It has been said to be a natural characteristic. Submission is also a choice. When I first entered the lifestyle, no one would have mistaken me for a submissive. I am strong willed, commanding and independent. I have a dominant personality. Nature, society and the way I was [...]

So You Want To Be A Slave: The Realities

by mira_hunter
I decided to write this article because I have seen so many submissives come into the lifestyle expecting everything to be dream-like and perfect. I don’t wish to ruin anyone’s dreams, or turn them from the activity, but what I wish to do is to explain how things really are. Being a slave can [...]

Serve, Service, Servitude?

by Ms Lyn
What do you mean when you offer to serve?
What do you mean when you offer to be of service?
What do mean when you offer yourself in servitude?
Do the answers to these questions bring up visions of you being bound helplessly while being exquisitely tortured, teased to the verge of orgasm?
Do you envision some [...]

Rediscovering and Modernizing The Geisha : New Submissive Perspectives In Contemporary BDSM

by Pantheris
The geisha is a potential site for exploration and experimentation in the world of BDSM today. As the world undergoes a shrinkage, globalization allows cultural crossovers; this not only pervades into the economic world, it also diversifies sensual experience. Currently, the majority of “roles” that submissives play are of Western conception and development. Let [...]

On Being Worthless

by Rick’s fucktoy
it’s a concept that i can understand so clearly in my head, yet i have been struggling to find the words that will explain it to someone who might read my thoughts and want to understand my perception.
hearing a term like “worthless” can often be an emotional experience. it has an extremely negative [...]

Mentorship

by Mistress Constance
One of the words we hear a lot these days is “mentor.” People talk about the need for mentors in our community. Novices are looking for mentors. More experienced people call themselves mentors. There seems to be a general consensus that everyone needs them and everyone who can be one should be a [...]

Looking Out for Number One

by Kayla
I’ve been around the BDSM community for a number of years and have had my fair share of meeting new people for potential play/relationship consideration. Over time I’ve put together my own personal rituals for meeting new people, most of whom I’ve met via the Internet. As this topic comes up often on various [...]

Just Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Telling Your Family

by Norische
“So what are you, some kind of Satanist, or what?” This was one of the first things my sister said when she walked into my house.
It had been almost a year since I had seen my sister, she doesn’t live that far away but she has always been a little on the judgmental side [...]

I am a Submissive Woman

I am a Submissive Woman

by Pure Devl
I am a submissive woman look through my eyes and see who I really am. I am strong, independent, bright,witty, beautiful and a lot like you. Can you see it? Do you understand it? Come with me and ill show you the things I am and the things I need. I am sometimes [...]

Feminisim & Submission

Feminisim & Submission

by Toya
Writing an article on submission and feminism was a huge challenge to me. Until a few years ago I had never really come into contact with the feminist movement; for the most part the feminist movement passed me by. Not because I wasn’t interested in what they were trying to achieve and indeed did [...]