BDSM: Questions and Answers

I am sorry if I am going over old ground....

Could you recommend any websites or resources for inexperienced Doms?

As usual, thank you for all of the information. *smile*
 
MissTaken

I'm on my way out (to the theatah, dahling), but here's a few links to check out:

http://www.belladdona.com/forum.htm
A good forum for talking things over, with other dommes, free of the female=sub expectations.

http://www.strictlydomination.com/
Lifestyle site, dedicated to professional dommes. But, they publish excellent articles.

http://gloria-brame.com/domidea/
Interesting personal site, one woman's philosophy of domme living, and a whole ton of good links.


MYSTICWOLPHI--
Sorry to shout. Please, please, listen to cym. Read the post, although it runs quite long. Don't rush into anything. The consequences can be more than heartbreaking; they can be deadly.

Take care all, I'm off to see Dracula, the Musical. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that idea.

RS
 
RisiaSkye said:
Read the post, although it runs quite long.
~sigh~
Anyone have the address of Long-Winded Boring Posters Anonymous?

Think they'd take me in?
:rolleyes:
 
cymbidia said:
~sigh~
Anyone have the address of Long-Winded Boring Posters Anonymous?

Think they'd take me in?
:rolleyes:

Long-Winded Posters Anonymous might be willing to consider you for membership. Long-Winded Boring Posters Anonymous would kick you out after reading one post. Boring is one of the last words I would pick to describe your posts.

:)
 
As someone who is relatively new to all of this myself, I whole-heartedly concur with cymbidia and RisiaSkye.... read, read, and read more.... go to places where you can talk to people like alt.com and then begin to decide what you want.... when I first started I was unsure, I just knew that part of me was missing and I needed to have that part put in place.... I had no idea this BB was here or I would have been here months sooner asking questions.... and when I did find it everyone was so helpful and they still are.... I found that I needed to know about myself... what I was looking for and what I needed before I could start to find someone to share this journey with me.... I made some mistakes, but maybe because I am more than a little cautious, I was not hurt.... but I know now that I could have been hurt by others very easily..... as it was, I ended up badly bruised but that was all.... and I consider myself very lucky at that.... it could have been so much worse...

At any rate try www.castlerealm.com and www.angelfire.com/fl2/Dsdiscussionnikkie/

the later has some great links that I really found helpful

also there is www.bdsm-online.com that I found was good especially for just general information....

I hope this helps you, MysticWolpi, and don't be afraid to come here and ask.... these people here are the greatest...
 
moringgirl5 and cellis...

I thank you most sincerely for your kind words of support in my hour of despair over my facing the inescapable fact that i make some WAY long-ass posts! ;)

In all honestly, however, i'm pretty relaxxed with my prediliction toward mega-posts and am always sure that at least one person reads them all. (No, not MS! He doesn't have that kinda time! Me! Me! I read all my own posts admiringly!)

And RisiaSkye is my friend, too, believe it or not. She wasn't being at all catty or unkind; she wouldn't. She's just a pink mound of Switch cotton candy at heart.

Ahem.
Here's a link to an article that seems to provide good info for (newish) Dominants, http://www.subco-op.org/peacock/essays/ess13.htm , and here are the first three paragraphs of the article:

Dominant Training

We all read about how a submissive should be trained, but what about the dominant? I've heard answers ranging from "read the S & M Good Books" to "learn to be submissive first". None of that advice seems to be useful or applicable to me. What did occur to me is the similarity between leadership qualities and what I would call positive dominant attributes.

A friend sent me an interesting web page the other day. It was a list compiled by Colin Powell, once military head of the US armed forces under Bush The Elder during the Gulf War, now Secretary of State (that's the US equivalent of the foreign minister) under Bush The Younger, and just maybe a future US President in the making. It was titled: 18 Lessons From A Very Successful Leader, URL at: http://www.littleafrica.com/career/powell.html . I thought I might go over some of the items on his list as they might apply to D/s. Though his list is aimed at leadership, I find the same qualities are necessary to make a good dominant or master.

"1. Good leaders sometimes make people unhappy." A dominant cannot choose the path of mediocrity, hoping every decision he makes meets with her approval. He has to face tough decisions and choose a course. It may not be one she likes, he may not like it either, but sometimes there are no good answers. As the dominant partner it is his job to weigh benefits against risks, needs, and wants. Whether he assigns the right priorities or not is the burden he must bear alone. It's not only "other" people who may be unhappy at what he does; he must be able to live with the results as well.


The rest of the article was similar in tone.
Late last night, someone on the GB told me that he thought he thought he had Dom tendancies - and how should he begin looking into this BDSM thing. This article came from a google search and as i read it, i was struck by the quality of the info it imparts.

Or, maybe it's WAY too late for me to be up and All Things Dominant aren't my biz anyway.
Who knows!
Think i'll just mosey off to bed now, though.
:cool:
 
Cymbidia, your posts may be long but they are never boring. You have guided many of us through times that could have been painful, kept us from doing things we would have regreted. Helped many to understand it isn't about the pan and bad self confidance. but a gift we are offering, to only someone who deserves such a gift.

Hell, one thing we know, though we keep hoping, is that you won't ever post the:

"want2fuck" post.

Though like I said, hope springs eternal.
 
Merelan said:
Hell, one thing we know, though we keep hoping, is that you won't ever post the:

"want2fuck" post.

Though like I said, hope springs eternal.

i'm sorry...i just had to laugh when i saw this. :D
 
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Oh, honestly people...

Like I don't write long posts.

The only reason I said anything about the length of cym's post is because she expressed to me her concern that MysticWolphi wouldn't read it because it was too long. She said it, not me.

cym--when you pretend I'm attacking you, people don't seem to know that we're just giving each other a little shit. you're making me look bad here. Be good, or no spankings for you. ;)

Oh, yeah--one more thing. Why wouldn't people believe that we're friends? Hmm... is it because you never call when you say you will? Oh wait, they don't know that. :D

Alright, I'm officially done responding to the misperception that I'm a big meanie. Please resume your usual conversation. To quote Robin Williams--I'll be over here in the corner, kicking the cat. :rolleyes:
 
Man, oh, man....
I just slugged through all thirty pages of this, and still feel like a kid in his first day of kindergarden with this. Lately, I've been fiddling a bit with self-bondage to uhm.. lighten the tension a little. (Lacking a girlfriend kind of hinders the real experience, but I need to get out more, really.) I know my own tendencies, but I've got very little experience playing with others to hang that on.

I'm also brain-fried from reading this whole thread in one sitting. :D

as usual, cymbidia floors me with her insight and experience, as have several others.

In other news, I checked my waist today, and I've lost two whole inches! I've also gained five pounds according to the scale. Am I doing something wrong? Lifting weights and some aerobic exercise (really long, fast walks, calisthenics, that sort of thing) don't seem to be getting me much closer to the kind of shape I was in back in High School, although I am stronger and tougher.
 
Re: Oh, honestly people...

RisiaSkye said:
[Why wouldn't people believe that we're friends? Hmm... is it because you never call when you say you will? Oh wait, they don't know that. :D


Some of the "they"s know it. ;) S'alright, we love her anyway.


cym isn't long winded, she thorough. God knows that is a rarity.


now, please stop kicking the kitties, thank you. :D
 
oops

Spectre T -muscle weighs more than fat, but takes up less space, hence extra weight with reduced inches. Rather than check your weight, check your BMI (body mass index). Your doctor or gym should be able to do it.
 
Re: Oh, honestly people...

RisiaSkye said:
cym--when you pretend I'm attacking you, people don't seem to know that we're just giving each other a little shit. you're making me look bad here. Be good, or no spankings for you. ;)
Okay. Risia and i are friends. We talk on the phone. We know all kinds of deeply personal details about each others lives. However, we haven't swapped spit... yet.

But... but... LOOK! She attacked me! Look at what she said! She does attack me, she does. I'm not a real sub at all, i'm a fraud, i'm a... a... doormat. Oh gods no!
Oh, yeah--one more thing. Why wouldn't people believe that we're friends? Hmm... is it because you never call when you say you will? Oh wait, they don't know that. :D
Oh man. My yesterday afternoon blew up like you wouldn't believe. Sky-high. Millions of pieces. You know how self-congratulatory i've been about how incredibly civil everything is betwen me and Tom during this hard time? Scratch that all to hell, at least for yesterday.

And it was Halloween, too. Why did you even believe i'd call you on H'ween? I have a little guy! He was a catepillar. We needed to straighten his legs; they were all crooked. His antennae weren't right. And there was a place poking into his knee. And then, then, after we got the catepillar all straightenend out, the big girl decided she didn't, after all, want to take the little guy out trick-or-treating. She wanted to go to party instead. (Yes, Mom, the parents ARE going to be there. Why? Why do you always have to call the parents? Don't you believe me? Don't you trust me? It's SOOOOOOOOOOO embarassing when you call and talk to the parents!) The little boy dissolved into tears, green ones, since catepillars have green faces, and the big girl started shouting and then Tom got into it and it all went straight (do not pass GO, do not collect $200) to hell.

That's my story for why i didn't call you when i said i would and i'm sticking to it.

What about next week?
Good days... bad days...


P.S. I'd swap spit with you, KittenEyes, and you, SpectreT, any day.
Uh, could you please clear that with MS first? ;)

P.P.S. Phone calls... KittenEyes... not being reliable... ~wincing~
Ack!
 
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Listen up, new people! Be very careful before you jump into what looks like a fight and take sides! Around here it can be hard to tell the loving sarcasm from the dagger 'twixt the ribs. You could make an ass of yourself. Or do it like I did and jump right in and sort it all out later. You still look like an ass, but they would have figured that out anyway. Saves time.

cym, I know what you mean about Halloween. Went to get my two last night, and my 10 year old daughter is unaccounted for almost an hour after trick or treating is over. I was seriously worried until she turned up. Sorry to post off topic, just wanted to poke my head in.:)
 
If I've learned one thing about this crew, it's to save my energy when cymbidia looks like she's being attacked; if it's friendly ribbing, a couple of posts will show me that. If it's more serious, well, cym has proven over and over and over again that she, like most subs, is a very strong person, and with her command of the language, and as someone else noted, thoroughness, can have an attacker hanging on the ropes in less than a round. Not as brutal, acidic, and viscious as a well-deserved KM rant, but you definitey know when you've stepped on her toes. I just glad she doesn't seem to mind a little chivalry now and then, either, or I (i?) would have a serious "Horse's Ass" award a few times over.:D

I know about the muscle/fat thing, but I'm way too chubby for a BMI to mean much right now; I'm seriously out of shape at six feet tall and a little over 300 pounds. I'm strong enough to lift my own weight off the ground and move it about a hundred yards, or lift a 175-pound man clean over my head, so it's not like I'm weak either. And my gym is my basement, and the forest/swamp area out behind the house. I really want to get myself down to an acceptable waistline, something i didn't even have back in High School when I was playing football. And all of this is way off topic. I'll just go back to reading and learning. Oh, and regarding piercings: When I'm in good enough shape to go shirtless in the summer I just might get my nips pierced; I'm just worried about the pain of having the job done and the healing process.

edited for spelling
 
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BE FOREWARNED--GOOD NATURED RIBBING AHEAD!

cym--Sorry to hear about your Halloween blow up. Hopefully, it will turn into a "blow OVER" in short order. But, don't think you're off the hook, missie. It was also Samhain, and I was gonna talk to you! We'll work something out before long.

And what's this about swapping spit? Why didn't I make your list at the end? I'm way close to MS (geographically, of course). I could clear it with him, you know. ;)


Spectre T--Good luck to you in your quest to get fit. I know how hard it is, and I have deep respect and admiration for your determination and drive. I hope you're successful, not because there's anything "wrong" with where you are, but because it sounds like a deeply personal goal, and achieving it will bring you great satisfaction. Best wishes and bright blessings to you.


Kitten Eyes--You know I wouldn't really kick the kitties, don'tcha? Unless, of course, they asked me to. ;)


Sorry to run so far off topic, but this thread has kinda turned into the kinky-kids' social club, and as a dues paying member, I like to drop in and say hello. :D
 
Hmmm, methinks some clarification is in order...

1. cym, Risia and I are all on good terms. If I had something unpleasant to say to either, I would do it in private (as would they, I believe).

2. cym, Risia, and I are also all masochists, of course we are going to play rough.


Speaking of kicking kitties, when my first child was little, she was kind of heavy handed with our cats. "Be nice to the kitty" after numerous repetitions, got shortened to "nice the kitty".


so...


having said that...


someone had better...


nice the kitty
 
Nessus said:
Thank you, Nessus, for the links.

I really like the above illustrations, in particular. Something about them ctugged at me at a very emotional level. As i posted in the GB thread, these depictions convey to me the sweaty rush of immediacy, the crystalline moment between "more please" and "too much", and the spiked gift of razor sharp pleasure inherent in wildly uninhibited and completely consensual BDSM play. This artist offers us pictures of the so-delicate balance between pain and pleasure, a fulcrum that's different for every one of us, in an astonishing emotional and realistic manner. Anyone who's been there knows these drawings had to be done from life, or from the recent memory of a live experience. They're too emotionally involved to be the impression of someone who merely watched from a distance.

Go see.
:cool:
 
I just responded to these over on the GB, but I wanted to add a couple of things on here:
1) Thank you very much for the links...gorgeous work, and I'm glad to have had the chance to see them.
2) You can definitely tell the difference between someone's who's been there and "gets it" and someone who's actualizing shallowly conceived fantasies of power. BDSM art, when it's good, is intensely powerful, passionate, living work. When it's bad, it's worse than gonzo porn--both aesthetically and in terms of emotional flatness.

RS
 
RisiaSkye said:
I just responded to these over on the GB, but I wanted to add a couple of things on here:
1) Thank you very much for the links...gorgeous work, and I'm glad to have had the chance to see them.
2) You can definitely tell the difference between someone's who's been there and "gets it" and someone who's actualizing shallowly conceived fantasies of power. BDSM art, when it's good, is intensely powerful, passionate, living work. When it's bad, it's worse than gonzo porn--both aesthetically and in terms of emotional flatness.

RS

I knew there was a reason some art appeals to me and some doesn't, and not just "style preference" issues either. It either has something to say to me or it doesn't.
 
A very special thank you....

Once again, I want to thank Cym, Risia Skye, Wizard, Nessus and Lady Hecate as well as ALL of the other posters on this thread.
You all have provided support and guidance as I lurked about and asked the occasional question. To be certain, I am always here somewhere.

This gratitude is special. As you may have noticed, I have a new AV. The significance of the AV is huge as it is indicative of the new and incredibly exciting relationship in my life. While I could go on for pages about Him, I won't for fear of boring you with the details.

He asked that I publicly acknowledge him on the internet, without hesitation, I am doing so. (I wanted to anyway. :) )


Thank you again everyone!

~hugs~
 
Love the new Avitair MissTaken , nice rope work...............Somthing about that pose that make my blood rush..............lol
 
Hi Everyone.

Don't everyone fall over at once - lol.

First I want to apologize for not being around. I've gotten rid of the webtv and don't have access to the computer as much as I'd like. It's in my roommates room (long story!) and I try to avoid it as much as possible.

It's about to get worse because I'm running for a board position with one of the local groups that I'm with. There are major politics going on with the groups in the area and it's a big mess. I'm just a small fish in the ocean but I'm going to do my part to help out.

Anyway, my rambling is meant to convey that I won't be around much but I'm going to miss you all dearly. I'll pop in when I can to say and keep updated.

cym...as usual, a wealth of info.

Nessus, thanks for the links.

Everyone, take care and...try not to get into too much trouble.

lol.
 
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