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The slave escapes her bonds to find a stronger set of chains. -- Anonymous
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender. -- Aerosmith
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field
Tagged: ritual, fear, pain, lust
There are rituals of lust and joy and pain and fear. These, forced to extremes, meld in the mind, and in that melding they may make or dissolve our egos, bodies, or spirits. -- Raven Greywalker (Lilith)
Tagged: submission, consent, control, dynamic, illusion
The Power exchange that occurs within a D/s dynamic is essentially an illussion! The submissive always retains the power of consent, and the only power the Dominant truly has are those gifted to them by their submissive, and only within the confines of that negotiagted dynamic. -- Father Mark (bdsmgallery.org)
Tagged: ritual, protocol, essential
Ritual is important. It is fulfilling and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic, and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines, and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization. Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism." Vagabonds of Gor -- -- John Norman
Tagged: master, needs, bottom, slave
Bottoms have appetites that are their own, whereas slaves' needs become the same as those of the Master. -- Guy Baldwin
Tagged: orgasm, fake, failure, injustice
Women fake orgasm if they really care about the man because they don't want him to feel a sense of failure. I think it's really a kind thing that women do. But they're probably doing themselves an injustice, because probably, if they could get over it, if they didn't fake it, and they learned how to relax, they would probably have their orgasm. Some men aren't good enough to give it to you. -- Annie Flanders
Tagged: cherry trees
I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees. -- Pablo Neruda
Tagged: spanking, torture, poetry
Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please. -- Lori Petty
Thou art to me a delicious torment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: discipline, suffer, pain
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. -- Jim Rohn
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
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. -- Marquis De Sade
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
Tagged: bdsm, experience
You can read a hundred books and cruise a thousand websites and chatrooms, but it will not equal one hour of real-time BDSM experience. -- Sensuous Sadie
If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
You gave me the key of your heart, my love; Then why did you make me knock?" "Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night- I changed the lock! -- John Boyle O'Reilly
Tagged: service, worth, price, work, self-sacrifice
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. -- John Burroughs
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
If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran
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
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau
To say that you can love one person all your life is like saying that one candle will continue to burn as long as you live. -- Leo Tolstoy
Tagged: discipline, wisdom, fools
Fools despise wisdom and discipline. -- Proverbs 1:7
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: life, journey, destiny
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Tagged: love, service, life, calling
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. -- Oprah Winfrey
Tagged: torture, pleasure, body
The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. -- Charles Levin
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe
Tagged: sex
In lovemaking, as in other arts, those who do it best can not tell how it is done. -- James M. Barrie
Tagged: submission, power, humility
Submission can actually engender power: realizing that you have something to give, and that you are capable of mastering your own will to give it up the way your top wants it instead of the way you think S/He should want it, can inspire pride: not the false pride of an inflated ego, but the true pride that, like humility, comes from knowing the depths of your self. -- William Henkin
Tagged: pleasure
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
Tagged: kneeling
On my knees I think clearer. -- U2
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
A successful M/s relationship is contingent upon the synergy of its participants. -- His pet elizabeth
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Tagged: terror, anticipation
There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchock
Tagged: sex, orgasm, penetration
The moment of greatest significance in love-making is not the moment of orgasm. It is rather the moment of entrance, the moment of penetration... This is the moment that shakes us, that has within it the great wonder, tremendous and tremulous as it may be- or disappointing and despairing, which says the same thing from the opposite point of view. -- Rollo May
Tagged: submission, power, mercy
I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Narcissism is the art of looking in the mirror and saying 'Damn I'd like to have sex with me.' -- Anonymous
Tagged: sex, promiscuity
What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes
Tagged: fantasy, reality, nightmare
My fantasy became my reality, just before it became my nightmare -- D.J. Acrey
Tagged: submission, woman, strength
The true strength of a woman is not measured by her compliance to
being shackled to a bed that becomes a fortress of solitude, but her
willingness to submit her very heart and very soul. -- Ron
Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has. -- Stephen King
Tagged: erotic
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. -- Audre Lorde
The modern erotic ideal: man and woman in loving sexual embrace experiencing simultaneous orgasm through genital intercourse. This is psychiatric-sexual myth useful in forcing feelings of sexual inadequacy and personal inferiority. It is also a rich source of "psychiatric patients. -- Thomas Szasz
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. -- Betty Grable
Tagged: service, good, nature, peace, success
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. -- Alex Noble
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
