Sub Checklist (Useful for Subs and Doms, looking for playmates)

Elengil

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Very useful for anyone looking to be a Sub (Though a Dom could use this too, just from the other POV)


This questionaire should be filled out by a Sub and provided to their Dom/Top before playing with them. This will provide a quick "head-start" to identifying limits, negotiating and finding common ground for play.

For each item, you need to provide two answers:

First write YES or NO next to each item to indicate if you have ever DONE that activity.

Mark N/A if it does not apply to your gender.

Next, indicate for each item how you FEEL about that activity by rating it on a scale of NO or 0 to 5.

NO means you will NOT do that item under any circumstances (a hard limit).

0 (zero) indicates you have utterly no desire to do that activity and don't like doing it (in fact, may loath it) and would ordinarily object to doing it, but you would be willing to do it to please the Dominant if it they really wanted it. (sometimes called a "soft limit").

1 means you don't want to do or like to do this activity, but wouldn't object if it was asked of you.

2 means you are willing to do this activity, but it has no special appeal for you.

3 means you usually like doing this activity, at least on an irregular/ occasional basis.

4 means you like doing this activity, and would like to experience it on a regular basis.

5 means the activity is a wild turn-on for you, and you would like it as often as possible.

Mark with an asterisk (*) those items which you are willing to do only with you current sex partner(s), but not with casual play-partners.

Note any additional information which might be important for your Dom to know.

There is intentionally some overlap between categories. Unless otherwise stated, the Sub is the recipient of the activity.


Experience, Willingness
yes/no, NO or 0-5


Abrasion :
Age play :
Anal sex :
Anal plugs (small) :
Anal plugs (large) :
Anal plug (public, under clothes):
Animal roles :
Arm & leg sleeves (armbinders) :
Asphyxiation :
Auctioned for charity :
Bathroom use control :
Beastiality :
Beating (soft) :
Beating (hard) :
Blindfolds :
Being serviced (sexual) :
Being bitten :
Breast/chest bondage :
Breath control :
Branding :
Boot worship :
Bondage (light) :
Bondage (heavy) :
Bondage (multi-day) :
Bondage (public, under clothing) :
Breast whipping :
Brown showers (scat) :
Cages (locked inside of) :
Caning :
Catheterization :
Cells/Closets (locked inside of) :
Chastity belts :
Chaueffering :
Choking :
Clothespins :
Cock worship :
Collars (worn in private) :
Collars (worn in public) :
Competitions (with other Subs) :
Corsets (wearing) :
Cuffs (leather) :
Cuffs (metal) :
Cutting :
Dilation :
Double penetration :
Electricity :
Enemas :
Enforced chastity :
Examinations (physical) :
Exercise (forced/required) :
Exhibitionism (friends) :
Exhibitionism (strangers) :
Eye contact restrictions :
Face slapping :
Fantasy abandonment :
Fantasy rape :
Fantasy gang-rape :
Fisting (anal) :
Fisting (vaginal) :
Following orders :
Foot worship :
Forced dressing :
Forced homosexuality :
Forced masturbation :
Forced nudity (private) :
Forced nudity (around others) :
Forced servitude :
Full head hoods :
Gags (cloth) :
Gags (rubber) :
Gags (tape) :
Gates of Hell (male) :
Genital sex :
Given away to another Dom (temp) :
Given away to another Dom (perm) :
Golden showers :
Hairbrush spankings :
Hair pulling :
Hand jobs (giving) :
Hand jobs (receiving) :
Harems (serving w/other subs) :
Harnessing (leather) :
Harnessing (rope) :
Having food chosen for you :
Having clothing chosen for you :
Head (giving fellatio) :
Head (receiving fellatio) :
High heel worship :
Homage with toungue (non-sexual) :
Hot oils (on genitals) :
Hot waxing :
Housework (doing) :
Human puppy dog :
Humiliation (private) :
Humiliation (public) :
Hypnotism :
Ice cubes :
Infantalism :
Initiation rites :
Injections :
Intricate (Japanese) rope bondage:
Interrogations :
Kidnapping :
Kneeling :
Leather clothing :
Leather restraints :
Lectures for misbehavior :
Licking (non-sexual) :
Manacles & Irons :
Manacures (giving) :
Massage (giving) :
Massage (receiving) :
Medical scenes :
Modeling for erotic photos :
Mouth bits :
Mummification :
Nipple clamps :
Nipple weights :
Oral/anal play (rimming) :
Over-the-knee spanking :
Orgasm denial :
Orgasm control :
Outdoor scenes :
Outdoor sex :
Phone sex (serving Dom) :
Phone sex (serving Dom's friends):
Piercing (temporary, play-pierce):
Piercing (permanant) :
Prison scenes :
Pony slave :
Public exposure :
Pussy/cock whipping :
Pussy worship :
Riding crops :
Riding the "horse" (crotch tort.):
Rituals :
Religious scenes :
Restrictive rules on behavior :
Rubber/latex clothing :
Rope body harness :
Saran wrapping :
Scratching - getting :
Scratching - giving :
Sensory deprivation :
Serving :
Serving as art :
Serving as ashtray :
Serving as furniture :
Serving as a maid :
Serving as toilet :
Serving as waitress/waiter :
Serving orally (sexual) :
Serving other doms (supervised) :
Serving other doms (unsupervised):
Sexual deprivation (short term) :
Sexual deprivation (long term) :
Shaving (body hair) :
Shaving (head hair) :
Sleep deprivation :
Sleepsacks :
Slutty clothing (private) :
Slutty clothing (public) :
Spanking :
Spandex clothing :
Speech restrictions (when, what) :
Speculums (Anal) :
Speculums (vaginal) :
Spreader bars :
Standing in corner :
Stocks :
Straight jackets :
Strap-on-dildos (sucking on) :
Strap-on-dildos (penetrated by) :
Strap-on-dildos (wearing) :
Strapping (full body beating) :
Suspension (upright) :
Suspension (inverted) :
Suspension (horizontal) :
Supplying new partners for Dom :
Swallowing semen :
Swallowing urine :
Swapping (with one other couple) :
Swinging (multiple couples) :
Tattooing :
Teasing :
Tickling :
Triple penetration :
Uniforms :
Including others :
Vaginal dildo :
Verbal humiliation :
Vibrator on genitals :
Voyeurism (watching others) :
Voyeurism (your Dom w/others) :
Video (watching others) :
Video (recordings of you) :
Water torture :
Wearing symbolic jewelery :
Whipping :
Wooden paddles :
Wrestling :


Thanks to: http://www.mybdsm.com/pages/kalanasc/bdsm/subchecklist.html
 
What the fuck?

Seriously. What happened to communication and getting to know your partner? Having a form is like a job application. Are there points for certain acts that increase you chances of passing?

Just curious.
 
littleone77 said:
What the fuck?

Seriously. What happened to communication and getting to know your partner? Having a form is like a job application. Are there points for certain acts that increase you chances of passing?

Just curious.

Hi littleone,

That list is communication, though in written form instead of verbal. It's a tool, nothing more, nothing less. If it works for you and yours, it's good to use. If it doesn't, toss it to the curb.

Personally, being a sadist and Top who plays with people I am not in a relationship with, I find that having someone fill out a list like this is a great way to get the negotiations done in a hurry. And with me, yes, there are points that will increase your chances of passing. Scoring 5's for cutting and needles, electrical play and caning and flogging will jump someone to the head of the line! :devil:
 
The idea is to quickly and "relatively" painlessly find out what areas of interest the Dom and Sub share, and where the strict NO would come in.

It also gives a LOT of ideas for fun "play dates", despite it not even being close to "complete"

You could also shorten it, and assume that anything cut off is a NO
 
I must be old fashioned, lol.

For me at least, although I see both of your points, at list looses that touch of personal. Seems entirely too business like for my personal tastes. However if like Geoff suggests, it would be an awesome application for a play date. A serious relationship though...If I got email that list I would slowly run for my life.

Thanks you two. :rose:
 
You never know what a person's interest, or limits are until you ask. Having a new partner fill out a checklist is pretty efficient way of learning about them. It gets the WriterDom stamp of approval.
 
ROFL

Like I said, I'd rather be asked these questions over a cup of coffee but I am glad that some use the tool to correctly communicate to their partner their individual wishes.

Curious, has anyone used that application or a similiar one?
 
littleone77 said:
ROFL

Like I said, I'd rather be asked these questions over a cup of coffee but I am glad that some use the tool to correctly communicate to their partner their individual wishes.

Curious, has anyone used that application or a similiar one?

littleone...i agree with you completely. While i see how checklist can be very useful, especially for those that have "casual play-partners," if i am building a relationship, i would rather these wants/desires/experiences come out in their own time. Personally, i don't think i would be completely honest in filling one of these out for someone i barely know. My embarrassment issues would get in the way for me. Given some time though, and some trust built and i become an open book.
 
littleone77 said:
ROFL

Like I said, I'd rather be asked these questions over a cup of coffee but I am glad that some use the tool to correctly communicate to their partner their individual wishes.

Curious, has anyone used that application or a similiar one?

LOL, used them all the time when I was looking, and we still use them when looking for play partners to join us. It certainly saved a lot of time instead of talking to someone for weeks/months to then find out you had major differences in what you wanted/needed. Cups of coffee are fine if you drink coffee and only talk to people very local to you...my experience was I rarely found anyone remotely local who was on the same page as me so talking over coffee, dinner or anything was really not a possibility.

Catalina :catroar:
 
I actually still use these sometimes in my serious relationships because what you like can change, and also because sometimes you forget the sheer volume of things to try out there - they can spark a discussion or a scene idea.
 
I sit down and filled out something similar for myself (and only myself) with no intent of showing it to anyone else, about once a year, as a gauge to where my comfort levels are regarding certain things. Doing so helped me quickly and cleanly fill out a full profile when I placed my ad on collarme.com, which in turn, helped weed out less than suitable potential partners.

It's a checklist - which is only worth what the person who fills it out wants it to be worth. How many times do people show up at Lit, saying they think they might be into BDSM, but don't know exactly what, or don't know how to communicate those interests with their partner?
 
I wouldn't do this sort of questionnaire with a complete stranger but with my husband or online Dom? I find it very useful.

Communication is always key but talking about some things is HARD!

Seriously.
 
My husband and I have only recently begun to explore various aspects of BDSM and only in a light way (which has been put on pause while he's away). However, when he returns, I plan to ask him if he'd be willing for us to use a checklist similar to this for the main reason that I simply can't remember to ask about everything that might interest me just as he may not remember to state his own interests as fully either.

It will not be used as the full discussion, but as the kick off to the discussion. The introduction, as it were, to the rest of the conversation on where we want to explore next. I'm sure some of his answers will surprise me just as some of mine will him, but I believe it will provide a nice icebreaker to figure out where to take our relationship next :)
 
littleone77 said:
Curious, has anyone used that application or a similiar one?
Personally I find them clinical, crass, totally unnecessary, and freakin' unsexy as hell.

No, I have never used one.
 
We did one in the beginning of our relationship. It was fun and informative. I was new to all this kinky stuff and let's face it, kinky people do some strange stuff! It was good to see where he stood on certain issues that I considered icky, off limits, or severely painful. ;)

It doesn't stand in for communication and is only a tool. What I found really fun was to take it a year later and see how those icky, off limit, and painful things didn't seem so bad to me anymore. :catroar:
 
JMohegan said:
Personally I find them clinical, crass, totally unnecessary, and freakin' unsexy as hell.

No, I have never used one.

My hero~ (said in that Disney high pitched way) :heart:

You have summed up my feelings exactly.

With El_C and I, a few times I had wrote a list of things I wanted to remember to ask. I think that has been the closest I have come to a form of this sort.
 
I discovered bdsm a couple months ago. When I first read about d/s, I was wayyyyyy out of control w/it - wanted to talk to every dom I possibly could - searched the boards for doms w/yahoo id's so I could learn more about it lolol

I had this form given to me by several of them - I tossed it in most cases because my intent wasn't to start a relationship w/them - I was just asking about d/s in general. I filled it out once for somebody I was hoping to meet - but I dind't know what a lot of it was - it was more confusing than anything.

I can see using the form if you and your partner are into kink and you're "interviewing" for a 3rd. If you're looking to develop a serious d/s relationship, I think it's more appropriate (and more fun) to discuss it rather than handing a sub a check off.

As a "sub wanna be" ;) I'm sure my limits will depend a great deal on the relationship between my partner and I. I may check something as a "hard limit" but it really wouldn't be at a later date once the relationship has developed.
 
My Dom asked me to fill out something similiar very early in our relationship. I answered it very honestly. For a newbie like myself I found it to be a great way to begin communications instead of saying "yeah, sure I think I would be willing to try anything" without really realizing everything that is out there.
 
My Sir (who is also my husband) and I have used one. It gave him, a newbie to BDSM, a place to begin in his search for answers.
With 4 children running around the house it is not always easy for us to find time to sit down and have a discussion of this sort so I found the list a great way to communicate what I wanted and needed to him so he would be aware of where to start.
If it doesn't work for you or you have more free time then I don't use it. It just worked for us.
:nana:
 
I think it's a good, comprehensive list. Whether you keep it for yourself or actually use it to screen casual play partners/permanent partners, I don't think it can hurt.
I've actually printed the list to keep for myself to see how much I've changed (and how much I've tried :devil: ) in a year.
 
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