Random Quotes
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
Tagged: find, submissive, question
The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D
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
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: sexuality
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. -- Alexander Lowen
Tagged: discipline, freedom, goal
Discipline gives total freedom; it allows you to go beyond limitations, to break through boundaries and reach the highest goal. -- Chidvilasananda
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: woman, instinct, courage
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. -- Anais Nin
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
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung
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
There is a chain that binds U/us,
Me to him and him to me,
An end holds the collar, my hand holds an end,
If I tug, he'll feel the pull,
But if he tugs, I'll feel it too...
Tagged: breasts, whip, walk, undies
I now know how to walk around properly in my undies. People would keep telling me to push my tits out! I also now know how to use a whip on people without causing bruising. -- Billie Piper
Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness
Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure. -- Mitch Kessler
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
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade
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: 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: 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: whips, rhyme, chains, excitement, affection
Sticks and Stones may break my bones but Whips and Chains excite me. So slam me up and throw me down and show me that you like me! -- Unknown
Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
Tagged: kissing
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
Tagged: kneeling
On my knees I think clearer. -- U2
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
Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's the lack of love we die from. -- Margaret Atwood
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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: leather, spirituality
I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly
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: whipping
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
Tagged: suffer
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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
A woman's "No" is said with one mouth only. -- Proverb
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: 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
Tagged: woman, protection, man, equal
Woman was created from Man's rib; Not made from His head to top Him; Nor from His feet to be trampled; But from His side to be His equal, Under His arm to be protected, And near His heart to be loved. -- Unknown
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
Tagged: life
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. -- Anais Nin
Arousal is a miracle... Don't try to hide it. [It is] an unsolicited endorsement, a standing ovation, a spontaneous demonstration -- Playboy
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
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
Tagged: life, heart, surrender, pain
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. -- Nicholas Evans
Tagged: master, fidelity, oath
When Abraham asked Eliezer to swear fidelity, he told him to "place your hand upon my thigh." This was an ancient custom, not some bizarre kink of Abraham's. When taking an oath to a Master, a slave would place his hand upon the Master's thigh near the testicles. Then he would swear to honor his Master's will. -- Master Alan
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
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
Tagged: discipline, life
Without discipline, there's no life at all. -- Katharine Hepburn
