A Help with a Search Online for BDSM Stuff

[lavender]

Could someone provide me a link where I might be able to find images of various images that are symbols used in the BDSM community?

I would appreciate it.

 

[T.J. Jackson]

http://www.spot.com.au/~feelings/bdsminfo.htm


Hope it helps.

 

[T.J. Jackson]

From the above site......

The BDSM Symbol

The round BDSM emblem is an ancient symbol called the "Triskahelion". Visually the symbol is a reinterpretation of the "yin-yang" and has become a way that BDSM practitioners can proclaim their interest publicly, virtually unobserved by the "vanilla" public.

Although the symbol has no meaning to the vanilla public, it is full of meaning for those involved in the many aspects of BDSM. The three divisions within the emblem represent the many triads that exist within BDSM itself.

First of all, it represents the three primary divisions within BDSM itself: Bondage/ Discipline, Dominance/ Submission, and Sadism/ Masochism. Secondly, it symbolizes the motto of BDSM behavior and play: Safe, Sane and Consensual Thirdly, the Triskahelion can be seen to represent the three divisions of our community; Tops, Bottoms and Switches.

To us at Feelings, it is the third representation that gives meaning to the holes in each unit of the emblem. Since BDSM is at the very least a play style and at it's greatest, a love style -- the holes represent the incompleteness of any individual within the BDSM who is not part of the community; separately we exist, but it is only as a community that we come together to form a cohesive whole. This interpretation serves to cement the idea that BDSM cannot be done alone.

The resemblance of the Triskahelion to the yin-yang symbol of the orient, is not accidental. The curved outline of the yin-yang represents the shadowy border between where one ends and the other begins; the same is true for the BDSM symbol -- the curved borders representing the indistinct divisions between Bondage/ Discipline, Dominance/ Submission and Sadism/ Masochism.

Lastly, the curved lines of the Triskahelion can also be seen as a stylized depiction of a lash as it swings, or even an arm in the motion of delivering a spanking. The all-embracing circle itself, represents the overlying unity of BDSM and the sense of community that brings us together and makes us whole.

 

[lark sparrow]

More: Thread from the forum regarding the BDSM emblem

BDSM Emblem Thread

 

[zipman]

This is my bizarro post for the day.


I don't know how I ever missed this connection before, but there was an original Star Trek episode called "The Gamesters of Triskelion."

The episode was one in which Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are used as slaves by entities who have no bodies. They are trained to fight in an arena with a Triskelion-like symbol on the floor of the arena.

Which all begs the question of "Does life imitate art or does art imitate life."

Of course, this could easily be amended to "Does kink imitate science fiction or does science fiction imitate kink?"

[/bizarro post]

 

[cellis]

This is my bizarro post for the day.


I don't know how I ever missed this connection before, but there was an original Star Trek episode called "The Gamesters of Triskelion."

The episode was one in which Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are used as slaves by entities who have no bodies. They are trained to fight in an arena with a Triskelion-like symbol on the floor of the arena.

Which all begs the question of "Does life imitate art or does art imitate life."

Of course, this could easily be amended to "Does kink imitate science fiction or does science fiction imitate kink?"

[/bizarro post]

Oh my and I remember the episode!

 

[zipman]

Oh my and I remember the episode!

When I was reading lark sparrow's posts about the Triskelion, I subconsciously started humming the music from that episode:

"Dom dom da-da, da-da, dom dom-dom dom dom"

Weird that I never made that connection before!

 

[kayte]

This is my bizarro post for the day.


I don't know how I ever missed this connection before, but there was an original Star Trek episode called "The Gamesters of Triskelion."

The episode was one in which Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are used as slaves by entities who have no bodies. They are trained to fight in an arena with a Triskelion-like symbol on the floor of the arena.

Which all begs the question of "Does life imitate art or does art imitate life."

Of course, this could easily be amended to "Does kink imitate science fiction or does science fiction imitate kink?"

[/bizarro post]

Wasn't that an interesting episode? I do like your amendment too.

 

[zipman]

Wasn't that an interesting episode? I do like your amendment too.

That was one of my favorite episodes when I was younger.

Maybe it was my "subconscious introduction" to BDSM


It's nice to see you posting here!

 

[kayte]

That was one of my favorite episodes when I was younger.

Maybe it was my "subconscious introduction" to BDSM


It's nice to see you posting here!

Start Trek was one of my favorite shows back then. I must have been 13 when it first aired. Of course most of my friends didn't understand my interest in SciFi. That was not something 13 year old girls had an interest in.

Of course I did get a crush on Spock, but what female didn't?. Ok so I was a bit young.

That episode was intriguing even for me at my young age. I do wonder.

Thank you for your welcome. I do visit the BDSM threads often I just don't always have something to add. I do manage to learn.

Now, I just need to remember to turn my sig line off. At least most of the time. If it is off, the link to my story is gone though.

Hope you have a nice evening.

 

[lark sparrow]

I watched Star Trek as a kid too lol. My father and I bonded with those campy sci-fi shows. Planet of The Apes was another favorite (which also has a very pervertible storyline!)