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Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's the lack of love we die from. -- Margaret Atwood
Tagged: power, influence, lady
Power is like being a lady. . . if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher
Tagged: woman, man, clothes, fantasies
What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. -- Brendan Francis
Tagged: find, submissive, question
The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D
A 'working' bottom--one who is actively putting the Top's 'work' to joyful use--has liberty where he or she imagined limits. -- Joseph W. Bean
The wonder of being a slave, as you put it, isn't that we serve when it suits us but rather that we serve always. -- Unknown
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean? Say no more. -- Monty Phython's Flying Circus
Tagged: love, suffer, understanding
To suffer in love is to completely understand it.
-- Dr. Justin HaleTagged: intention, expectation
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. -- Douglas Adams
Tagged: intimacy, vulnerable
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability...nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff -- Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt
Tagged: torture, pleasure, body
The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. -- Charles Levin
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade
The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
A sadist is someone who refuses to be mean to a masochist. -- Anonymous
Tagged: fantasy, reality, nightmare
My fantasy became my reality, just before it became my nightmare -- D.J. Acrey
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: master, slave, centered
How does a master center a slave? Being centered is a Zen term that means a person is balanced, calm, healthy, peaceful, grounded, nourished. Some might see it as a relaxed state, one of calm, creative, full of the realization of being well-off, in communion with one's self and one's environment… How does a master center a slave? He does it by creating, with his slave, a right relationship, that is, one in which each is free to be him or herself; one with openness, honesty, and clarity of purpose. Centering comes from having a clear focus, mutual support, encouragement, and purpose. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: sex
In lovemaking, as in other arts, those who do it best can not tell how it is done. -- James M. Barrie
Tagged: bondage, discipline, trust
In a sense, you will find that it does not matter what stance you take in bondage and discipline games. Either role done well transcends into the other, and to be done well both require trust. -- Lady Ravinia
I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine
And, graven with diamonds, in letters plain/There is written her fair neck round about:/"Noli me tangere", for Caesar's I am;/And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. -- Petrarch
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in me for so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea. -- Emma Goldman
Tagged: life
Think of three things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. -- Benjamin Franklin
Tagged: discipline, wisdom, fools
Fools despise wisdom and discipline. -- Proverbs 1:7
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato
Tagged: sex
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting. -- Allan Sherman
Tagged: submission, permission, right
You are no one's slave, dog, slut, or sub until you give them that right. Only you can give it. No one can take or assume it without your permission. -- Jack Rinella
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: calling, slave, vocation
Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: surrender
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. -- Thomas Merton
Tagged: bdsm, difference, kinky, spiritual
A riding crop and a blindfold doesn't make it BDSM. There is a big difference between being kinky and being in the scene. It's not a sexual thing to me, it's a very spiritual thing. -- DominaBlue
Tagged: beauty
Beauty isn't everything! But then what is? -- Sanford Wilson
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein
Tagged: force, heart, sexual urges
Feelings that originate in the human genitalia are among the most powerful forces on earth. They have a complex relationship with the feelings that stem from the human heart; at various times in competition or in harmony... One of the supreme goals of spiritual work is to harness the sexual urges in service to the heart's wisdom. -- Rob Brezsny
Tagged: reality, experience, alive
...what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
D/s is filled with similar paradox's. Such as Pain/pleasure. Enslavement/freedom. A circular and connected balance to exist between apparent opposites. -- Master Nik
Tagged: cherry trees
I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees. -- Pablo Neruda
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do till you require. -- William Shakespeare
Tagged: possession, giving
"It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself" -- Louise Andreas-Salomé
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender. -- Aerosmith
Tagged: edge, explanation
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Tagged: submission, masochism, gifts, power exchange
A submissive washing dishes for his dominant, knowing that each soap bubble, each swirl of water is a gift, an honoring, may feel the humming resonance of a hunger, partially satisfied, deep in his spirit. A domme, caught up in the meditative precision of tying each knot precisely *so*, may feel an echo of cathedral walls around her, each motion guiding her, and those around her closer to the God they seek. A masochist, floating in the scintillations of painwaves as the whip falls against her time and time again, may begin to feel their cadence as the cadence of prayer. A hesitant sadist may, with the first hissing of his partner's breath, begin to understand the transformative power he wields with his strap. -- Unknown
Tagged: sex
I don't know what I am, darling. I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Tagged: sex, love, vanilla, erotic, s/m
Many vanilla people are surprised to learn that S/M includes erotic spanks, scratches, and bites, which are amazingly common forms of erotic expression. They are also surprised to find out that S/M practitioners can fall in love, and that they enjoy conventional sex acts such as oral sex and intercourse. -- Laura Goodwin
There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so! -- William Shakespeare
Tagged: dominance
In the beginning I was fooled by Dominants who were good looking, had charisma, dressed well, and had that "dominant" personae. I soon realized that these things are easy to fashion. Real Dominance is a deep and visceral thing, something that has nothing to do with the trappings of BDSM. -- Sensuous Sadie
Tagged: love
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm
Tagged: sex, promiscuity
What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes




