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#20   + (-8) - [X]

Tagged: kneeling

On my knees I think clearer. -- U2

#62   + (12) - [X]

Tagged: love, whip

Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin

#156   + (47) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality

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

#151   + (25) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, liberty

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

#63   + (4) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, tears

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage

#224   + (37) - [X]

Tagged: collars, poetry

And, graven with diamonds, in letters plain/There is written her fair neck round about:/"Noli me tangere", for Caesar's I am;/And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. -- Petrarch

#186   + (40) - [X]

Tagged: service, good, nature, peace, success

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. -- Alex Noble

#185   + (-15) - [X]

Tagged: life, dream, imagined

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau

#82   + (49) - [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

#89   + (18) - [X]

Tagged: love

You need somebody to love while you're looking for someone to love. -- Shelagh Delaney

#207   + (25) - [X]

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

#187   + (8) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

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

#109   + (63) - [X]

Tagged: love

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm

#216   + (38) - [X]

Tagged: love, voice, silence

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

#30   + (46) - [X]

Tagged: force, heart, sexual urges

Feelings that originate in the human genitalia are among the most powerful forces on earth. They have a complex relationship with the feelings that stem from the human heart; at various times in competition or in harmony... One of the supreme goals of spiritual work is to harness the sexual urges in service to the heart's wisdom. -- Rob Brezsny

#120   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: sex, orgasm, myth

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

#152   + (57) - [X]

Tagged: sex, obsession, fact

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich

#92   + (85) - [X]

Tagged: love, life

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#94   + (101) - [X]

Tagged: cherry trees

I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees. -- Pablo Neruda

#64   + (-3) - [X]

Tagged: whipping

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

#114   + (-34) - [X]

Tagged: sex, love

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

#48   + (12) - [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

#107   + (29) - [X]

Tagged: nudge, wink

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean? Say no more. -- Monty Phython's Flying Circus

#137   + (123) - [X]

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

#177   + (-43) - [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

#190   + (86) - [X]

Tagged: sex, life, attractive, philosophy, value

Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself..... The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut. -- Ayn Rand

#210   + (100) - [X]

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

#168   + (-8) - [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

#41   + (32) - [X]

Tagged: terror, anticipation

There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchock

#167   + (10) - [X]

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

#148   + (17) - [X]

Tagged: nature, crime

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade

#98   + (69) - [X]

Tagged: dream, mysterious

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her. -- Henri de Montherlant

#14   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: service, reward

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

#19   + (74) - [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

#75   + (70) - [X]

Tagged: fear

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- Frank Herbert

#214   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: torture, pleasure, body

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

#225   + (22) - [X]

Tagged:

When a su -- Desmond Ravenstone

#142   + (-18) - [X]

Tagged: thorns, roses

Instead of complaining that rose bushes have thorns, rejoice that thorn bushes bloom. -- Unknown

#58   + (13) - [X]

Tagged: thorns, roses

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade

#77   + (97) - [X]

Tagged: life

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

#195   + (9) - [X]

Tagged: submission, ritual, sex, sacrament

The BDSM ritual may be predominantly sexual in expression, however the goal is not gratification per se, but ecstasy. BDSM is, above and beyond a physical need, the psyche's effort to make sex a sacrament. Only through the understanding and acceptance of the sacramental value of submission will slavehood be true. By the same token, of course, it also becomes holy. -- J. Mikael Togneri

#96   + (20) - [X]

Tagged: sex, money

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike

#91   + (4) - [X]

Tagged: man, dress

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

#56   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: sticks, stone, excite

Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me. -- Anonymous

#45   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: suffer

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

#42   + (107) - [X]

Tagged: good, bad

There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so! -- William Shakespeare

#81   + (15) - [X]

Tagged: love, woman

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin

#118   + (122) - [X]

Tagged: oral sex, intimacy

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover

#124   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: sex, promiscuity

What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes

#67   + (115) - [X]

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

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