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#212   + (35) - [X]

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

#106   + (43) - [X]

Tagged: kissing

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her- when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her. -- Helen Rowland

#126   + (3) - [X]

Tagged: sex

Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
All hopes benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth. -- Walt Whitman

#137   + (123) - [X]

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

#9   + (23) - [X]

Tagged: master, hands

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin

#40   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: love, mistress

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. -- Marquis De Sade

#111   + (-47) - [X]

Tagged: kissing

What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate. -- Gilbert Sorrentino

#28   + (87) - [X]

Tagged: sex, erotic, life, force

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

#138   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: service, life

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#228   + (11) - [X]

Tagged: masochism, sadism, transformation

In the absence of light there is only darkness and in the eyes of a True Sadist pleasure and pain are one in same. It is through pain that the True Sadist is Born and thrives, be it through the creation of physical, emotional. It is in this that One finds Their greatest joy. It is though the discovery of the pleasure of pain, the knowlage that it is His pleasure that a masochist is born and thrives. With Me, Sadism is not an area where there is grey, things are either black or white -- DarkSadistLust

#186   + (46) - [X]

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

#8   + (-14) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, trainer

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer. -- Anne Rice

#117   + (227) - [X]

Tagged: woman, proverb

A woman's "No" is said with one mouth only. -- Proverb

#64   + (-3) - [X]

Tagged: whipping

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice

#230   + (39) - [X]

Tagged: possession, giving

"It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself" -- Louise Andreas-Salomé

#49   + (22) - [X]

Tagged: sadist, masochist

A sadist is someone who refuses to be mean to a masochist. -- Anonymous

#32   + (455) - [X]

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

#7   + (41) - [X]

Tagged: religion, currupt, virtue

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! -- Marquis De Sade

#211   + (62) - [X]

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

#135   + (2) - [X]

Tagged: submission, slavery

Submissives need to be told what to do. Slaves need to do what they are told. -- Unknown

#168   + (-6) - [X]

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

#153   + (22) - [X]

Tagged: woman, man, dirty talk

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. -- Unknown

#6   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: master, words, slave

We are the masters of words we've never spoken and the slaves of the ones we have. -- Sandra West Prowell

#224   + (36) - [X]

Tagged: collars, poetry

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

#119   + (89) - [X]

Tagged: orgasm

I was in bed one night when my boyfriend Ernie said, "How come you never tell me when you're having an orgasm?" I said to him, "Ernie, you're never around. -- Bette Midler

#20   + (-4) - [X]

Tagged: kneeling

On my knees I think clearer. -- U2

#199   + (94) - [X]

Tagged: calling, slave, vocation

Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri

#93   + (48) - [X]

Tagged: penis, proverb

A standing prick has no conscience. -- English Proverb

#47   + (44) - [X]

Tagged: fear

'Come to the edge', he said.
They said, 'We are afraid'.
'Come to the edge', he said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew. -- Guillaume Apollinaire

#35   + (73) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen

#75   + (71) - [X]

Tagged: fear

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- Frank Herbert

#216   + (32) - [X]

Tagged: love, voice, silence

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. -- Robert Sexton

#31   + (71) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality, sacrament

Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk

#162   + (6) - [X]

Tagged: love, leather, chaos, war

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. And then, by all means, use restraints. -- Margaret Cho

#103   + (244) - [X]

Tagged: proverb, flesh

The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb

#79   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: soul, diamond

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune

#5   + (45) - [X]

Tagged: find, submissive, question

The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D

#139   + (81) - [X]

Tagged: woman, pedestal

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

#149   + (84) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, surrender, violence

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. -- Marquis De Sade

#63   + (3) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, tears

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage

#39   + (74) - [X]

Tagged: life, surrender

I could spend my life in this sweet surrender. -- Aerosmith

#22   + (19) - [X]

Tagged: bondage

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. -- William Shakespeare

#146   + (118) - [X]

Tagged: d/s, paradox

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

#120   + (33) - [X]

Tagged: sex, orgasm, myth

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

#187   + (2) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein

#131   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: heart, truth

The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides. -- Kahlil Gibran

#171   + (-14) - [X]

Tagged: love, sensation, masochist

The Masochist desires to experience stronger sensations, but desires that it should be inflicted with Love. The Sadist desires to inflict stronger sensations, but desires that it should be felt as Love. -- Unknown

#81   + (9) - [X]

Tagged: love, woman

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin

#51   + (110) - [X]

Tagged: reality, pain

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field

#170   + (65) - [X]

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

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