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Tagged: bdsm, religious doctrine, opposition
BDSM appears to stand in opposition to much religious doctrine (speaking primarily to the Christian doctrines here), and there are aspects on the extreme fringes that in fact are in opposition to direct religious teachings. I said 'appears' for a very good reason. In fact, a large percentage of the spiritual teachings parallel the basic premises of D/s. -- Mistress Steel
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
Instead of complaining that rose bushes have thorns, rejoice that thorn bushes bloom. -- Unknown
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
Tagged: dominance
In the beginning I was fooled by Dominants who were good looking, had charisma, dressed well, and had that "dominant" personae. I soon realized that these things are easy to fashion. Real Dominance is a deep and visceral thing, something that has nothing to do with the trappings of BDSM. -- Sensuous Sadie
Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has. -- Stephen King
Tagged: torture, pleasure, body
The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. -- Charles Levin
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: 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)
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: fantasy, reality, nightmare
My fantasy became my reality, just before it became my nightmare -- D.J. Acrey
Tagged: sex, art, erotic, philosophical
BSDM is an erotic art which does not require conventional sex acts to explore and practice. That's my philosophical story, and I'm stickin' to it. -- Elizabeth
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
Tagged: strength, confidence, time
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -- Anna Freud
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field
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
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
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: 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: power, aphrodisiac
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe
Tagged: whipping
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
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
Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin
Tagged: suffer
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave. -- From the movie Labryinth -- David Bowie
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: 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
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Arousal is a miracle... Don't try to hide it. [It is] an unsolicited endorsement, a standing ovation, a spontaneous demonstration -- Playboy
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin
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
Tagged: love
You need somebody to love while you're looking for someone to love. -- Shelagh Delaney
...it seems to make no difference how much the poor bastard actually gets, for he is dreaming about tomorrow's pussy even while pumping away at today's. -- Philip Roth
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
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
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: reality, experience, alive
...what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
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
The noblest service comes from nameless hands, And the best servant does his work unseen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan
Tagged: beauty
Beauty isn't everything! But then what is? -- Sanford Wilson
...the most beautiful part of her was the long-sloping fall of the haunches from the socket of the back, and then slumberous round stillness of the buttocks. Like hillocks of sand the Arabs say, soft and downward-slipping with a long slope -- D.H. Lawrence
