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#61   + (75) - [X]

Tagged: sensation, pain

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

#184   + (7) - [X]

Tagged: trust, live

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#164   + (-19) - [X]

Tagged: love, happiness

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert Heinlein

#141   + (11) - [X]

Tagged: bottom, liberty

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

#170   + (66) - [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

#10   + (17) - [X]

Tagged: service, pleasing

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. -- Anne Rice

#220   + (22) - [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

#18   + (8) - [X]

Tagged: power, aphrodisiac

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger

#180   + (37) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, consent, bottom, job

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent
from the bottom. -- Joseph Bean

#86   + (37) - [X]

Tagged: love, heart

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

#65   + (105) - [X]

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

#193   + (-6) - [X]

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

#214   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: torture, pleasure, body

The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. -- Charles Levin

#196   + (-33) - [X]

Tagged: power exchange, Dom Space, transcendence

This notion is at least one explanation of what we call the power exchange. It is also the reason that so many of us feel the sharp focus of illumination as we come away from a successful scene. DomSpace is less physical than the experience of subspace and considerably subtler, but it is every bit as powerful as the experience of subspace. So, what we are after in this exceptional act of passion and cruelty we call a scene is that oneness, that transcendence which is the same goal as religion, which is the same goal as vanilla sex. -- Rick Umbaugh

#228   + (9) - [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

#217   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: master

A mediocre Master tells, a good Master teaches, an excellent Master explains, but a True Master inspires -- Anonymous

#188   + (112) - [X]

Tagged: responsibility, control, trust, worth

To have someone give you control of their bodies and minds,
to be entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them,
to have someone willing to suffer for you,
to forsake pride and dignity to please you...
what other gift in this world can possibility equate to that?
And more importantly, what makes you worthy to receive it? -- Anonymous

#77   + (99) - [X]

Tagged: life

Think of three things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. -- Benjamin Franklin

#51   + (109) - [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

#119   + (95) - [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

#79   + (57) - [X]

Tagged: soul, diamond

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

#62   + (7) - [X]

Tagged: love, whip

Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin

#166   + (-14) - [X]

Tagged: m/s, synergy

A successful M/s relationship is contingent upon the synergy of its participants. -- His pet elizabeth

#22   + (20) - [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

#213   + (48) - [X]

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

#229   + (66) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, master, slave, gift

A Master has to master the mind of His slave and not to torment her body - only then He's worth the most precious gift that was given to Him - the slave herself! -- Sir Peter Mclaughlin

#19   + (63) - [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

#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

#106   + (47) - [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

#114   + (-32) - [X]

Tagged: sex, love

Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's the lack of love we die from. -- Margaret Atwood

#206   + (19) - [X]

Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness

Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine

#47   + (40) - [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

#200   + (17) - [X]

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

#128   + (25) - [X]

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

#91   + (3) - [X]

Tagged: man, dress

A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan

#125   + (138) - [X]

Tagged: love, buttocks, penis

Yes, this was love, the ridiculous bounding of the buttocks and the wilding of the poor, insignificant moist little penis. -- D.H. Lawrence

#204   + (48) - [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

#123   + (20) - [X]

Tagged: sex, proverb, creative

Be creative; invent a sexual perversion. -- Graffito

#212   + (29) - [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

#187   + (11) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

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

#87   + (20) - [X]

Tagged: question, charm, yes

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question. -- Albert Camus

#226   + (4) - [X]

Tagged: passions, unknown, awakening

The darkest passions lie dormant inside all of us; waiting, sweltering and pulsing with our every breath. It is up to awaken, mold and stimulate them.

-- unknown

#31   + (63) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality, sacrament

Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk

#168   + (-7) - [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

#48   + (13) - [X]

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

#71   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: woman, bitch

Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has. -- Stephen King

#165   + (-9) - [X]

Tagged: joy, happiness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#16   + (54) - [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

#133   + (40) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, submission

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

#72   + (113) - [X]

Tagged: sensual, life

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself and so to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. -- James Baldwin

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