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#221   + (23) - [X]

Tagged: erotic

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

#218   + (14) - [X]

Tagged: submission, woman, strength

The true strength of a woman is not measured by her compliance to
being shackled to a bed that becomes a fortress of solitude, but her
willingness to submit her very heart and very soul. -- Ron

#170   + (61) - [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

#77   + (99) - [X]

Tagged: life

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

#84   + (26) - [X]

Tagged: breasts

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices. -- Germaine Greer

#187   + (-14) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

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

#204   + (51) - [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

#113   + (29) - [X]

Tagged: proverb, lips, hips

Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb

#45   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: suffer

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

#148   + (13) - [X]

Tagged: nature, crime

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

#109   + (53) - [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

#56   + (46) - [X]

Tagged: sticks, stone, excite

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

#197   + (33) - [X]

Tagged: submission, spiritual, nature, symbiotic

A slave submits primarily to her own nature… That she requires a material, extrovert focus for her submission, i.e. the dominant, does not alter the fact that on the spiritual level her submission is essentially introverted. One could say that through the dominant she submits to herself by proxy… Each makes the other possible, tied together as they are in symbiotic interdependence. -- J. Mikael Togneri

#72   + (116) - [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

#24   + (-9) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, familiar

Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln

#111   + (-49) - [X]

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

#29   + (31) - [X]

Tagged: abnormal, pleasures

Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Eduardo

#75   + (72) - [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

#21   + (12) - [X]

Tagged: bondage

How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne

#215   + (-3) - [X]

Tagged: love, slavery, fear

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

#122   + (-4) - [X]

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

#228   + (15) - [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

#16   + (57) - [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

#145   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, discipline, trust

In a sense, you will find that it does not matter what stance you take in bondage and discipline games. Either role done well transcends into the other, and to be done well both require trust. -- Lady Ravinia

#230   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: possession, giving

"It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself" -- Louise Andreas-Salomé

#85   + (32) - [X]

Tagged: buttocks, butt

...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

#178   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, service, serve

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

#108   + (24) - [X]

Tagged: dream, pussy

...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

#231   + (15) - [X]

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)

#167   + (11) - [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

#229   + (73) - [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

#55   + (-3) - [X]

Tagged: slapping

Listen, when I slap you you'll take it and like it. -- Humphrey Bogart

#41   + (34) - [X]

Tagged: terror, anticipation

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

#126   + (3) - [X]

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

#92   + (86) - [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

#142   + (-25) - [X]

Tagged: thorns, roses

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

#3   + (40) - [X]

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

#28   + (101) - [X]

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

#19   + (84) - [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

#217   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: master

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

#115   + (44) - [X]

Tagged: sex

In lovemaking, as in other arts, those who do it best can not tell how it is done. -- James M. Barrie

#180   + (36) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, consent, bottom, job

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

#159   + (63) - [X]

Tagged: service, heart, slave

The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to Your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for Your sake... -- William Shakespeare

#154   + (110) - [X]

Tagged: love, chains, slave

If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins

#8   + (-11) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, trainer

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer. -- Anne Rice

#100   + (40) - [X]

Tagged: love, woman, wine

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly

#14   + (43) - [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

#93   + (51) - [X]

Tagged: penis, proverb

A standing prick has no conscience. -- English Proverb

#76   + (15) - [X]

Tagged: nature, crime

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

#152   + (54) - [X]

Tagged: sex, obsession, fact

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

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