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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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
The eyes are the silent tongues of love. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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
Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure. -- Mitch Kessler
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)
There is a chain that binds U/us,
Me to him and him to me,
An end holds the collar, my hand holds an end,
If I tug, he'll feel the pull,
But if he tugs, I'll feel it too...
Tagged: slavery, study, patience, learning
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of greater, senior slaves. Or learning every nuance of their owner's character, so that they can more completely and seamlessly offer themselves at the right time and in the right manner. -- Laura Antoniou
I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Tagged: romance, first love
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
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
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
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: 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
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do till you require. -- William Shakespeare
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
...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
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
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
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
Tagged: pleasure
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau
Tagged: find, submissive, question
The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D
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: whipping
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
Tagged: dominance, submission
It's the submissives that show to others what type of Dom owns them. -- Anonymous
Yes, this was love, the ridiculous bounding of the buttocks and the wilding of the poor, insignificant moist little penis. -- D.H. Lawrence
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
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
Instead of complaining that rose bushes have thorns, rejoice that thorn bushes bloom. -- Unknown
Tagged: dominance, consent, bottom, job
The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent
from the bottom. -- Joseph Bean
A masochist walked up to a sadist, and said 'Hurt me'. The sadist said 'No' and walked away. -- Unknown
Tagged: bondage
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne
Tagged: pleasure, surrender, violence
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. -- Marquis De Sade
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
Sometimes I feel, like I've been tied to the whippin' post.
Oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying.
-- The Allman Brothers
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin
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)
Tagged: love, ownership, soul, yours
All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. -- Robert Browning
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
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
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly
