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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
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
Tagged: pleasure, degradatioin, delight
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way. -- Marquis De Sade
Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's the lack of love we die from. -- Margaret Atwood
Tagged: sex, promiscuity
What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field
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: 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: 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
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
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
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
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
We are the masters of words we've never spoken and the slaves of the ones we have. -- Sandra West Prowell
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
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
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: 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
A masochist walked up to a sadist, and said 'Hurt me'. The sadist said 'No' and walked away. -- Unknown
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
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: sex, love, vanilla, erotic, s/m
Many vanilla people are surprised to learn that S/M includes erotic spanks, scratches, and bites, which are amazingly common forms of erotic expression. They are also surprised to find out that S/M practitioners can fall in love, and that they enjoy conventional sex acts such as oral sex and intercourse. -- Laura Goodwin
Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty. -- William Shakespeare
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question. -- Albert Camus
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
...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: slapping
Listen, when I slap you you'll take it and like it. -- Humphrey Bogart
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: calling, slave, vocation
Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: kissing
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
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
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
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: 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
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
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
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: submission, slavery
Submissives need to be told what to do. Slaves need to do what they are told. -- Unknown
Tagged: desire, woman, man, want
When I am dead, you'll find it hard, says he
To ever find another like me.
What makes you think, as I suppose you do,
I'll ever want another man like you? -- Eugene T. Ware
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
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
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
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
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
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward; be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward. -- Antigonus of Sokho
...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
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: 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
