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#160   + (87) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, love

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe

#64   + (9) - [X]

Tagged: whipping

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

#228   + (15) - [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

#171   + (-13) - [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

#3   + (38) - [X]

Tagged: leader, woman, possessed

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling all that I am capable of doing but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding. -- Anais Nin

#4   + (6) - [X]

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

#178   + (49) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, service, serve

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

#220   + (21) - [X]

Tagged: tea, happiness

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.  -- ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake

#62   + (12) - [X]

Tagged: love, whip

Love well, whip well. -- 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

#79   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: soul, diamond

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

#13   + (45) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, submission, will

Submission depends on the individual's ability to align his will with that of the dominant and use his intelligence to fulfill her wishes gracefully and efficiently. -- Christina Abernathy

#100   + (40) - [X]

Tagged: love, woman, wine

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly

#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

#16   + (57) - [X]

Tagged: service, protection, safety

I am your servant. I shall not be free. You will protect me; you will keep me safe; you will guard me. You will keep me sound; you will protect me from every demon. -- Ancient Egyptian woman's slave contract

#54   + (43) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, pain

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer

#204   + (54) - [X]

Tagged: submission

Submission is not about being used, submission is about being of use. submission is not about what is done to you, submission is about what you do for others " "Strong men simply need women. This will never be understood by weak men. A strong man needs a woman at his feet, who is truly his. Anything else is less than his fulfillment. -- Unknown

#35   + (86) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure

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

#158   + (93) - [X]

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

#223   + (16) - [X]

Tagged: submission, respect

True Submission & Servitude is not only a form of Respect, but your natural birthright vocation. It is an obligation of servitude, which you are bound to honour your Mistress.

-- Supreme Mistress Kajun

#151   + (23) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, liberty

Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty. -- William Shakespeare

#156   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. -- Alexander Lowen

#45   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: suffer

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock

#218   + (17) - [X]

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

#177   + (-40) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, path, crawling

The path to slavery is so narrow that two cannot walk upon it at the same time, hence why the slave must crawl behind. -- Unknown

#46   + (29) - [X]

Tagged: stars, desires

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare

#131   + (61) - [X]

Tagged: heart, truth

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

#102   + (-18) - [X]

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

#24   + (-11) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, familiar

Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln

#61   + (59) - [X]

Tagged: sensation, pain

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron

#133   + (37) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, submission

It's the submissives that show to others what type of Dom owns them. -- Anonymous

#182   + (72) - [X]

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

#127   + (8) - [X]

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

#198   + (-9) - [X]

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

#187   + (-11) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

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

#20   + (-8) - [X]

Tagged: kneeling

On my knees I think clearer. -- U2

#113   + (34) - [X]

Tagged: proverb, lips, hips

Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb

#82   + (55) - [X]

Tagged: sex, arousal

Arousal is a miracle... Don't try to hide it. [It is] an unsolicited endorsement, a standing ovation, a spontaneous demonstration -- Playboy

#50   + (-45) - [X]

Tagged: whipping, song

Sometimes I feel, like I've been tied to the whippin' post.
Oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying.
-- The Allman Brothers

#97   + (58) - [X]

Tagged: woman, man, looking

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy. -- Gershon Legman

#39   + (83) - [X]

Tagged: life, surrender

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

#19   + (88) - [X]

Tagged: d/s

For me, D/s is a graded endeavor. There are definitive levels of achievement. There is an unacceptable level of performance. Effort is not enough to make the grade. -- Sir C

#6   + (56) - [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

#168   + (-1) - [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

#60   + (-12) - [X]

Tagged: masochism, sadism

A masochist walked up to a sadist, and said 'Hurt me'. The sadist said 'No' and walked away. -- Unknown

#33   + (62) - [X]

Tagged: bedroom, horses

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

#115   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: sex

In lovemaking, as in other arts, those who do it best can not tell how it is done. -- James M. Barrie

#78   + (79) - [X]

Tagged: speech, service, heart, compassion

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha

#68   + (39) - [X]

Tagged: pain, understanding

And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. -- Khalil Gibran

#21   + (14) - [X]

Tagged: bondage

How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne

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