When was the first time you became aware of what BDSM is?....

[Slimmyme]

I can't remember, but do remember asking my mother what a whip was and she told me 'It's a thing with leather straps that cuts your back open'.

I think I was about 7 at the time.

 

[Harrowborg]

ummm...when I was 9 i think lol saw something on the news if i remember correctly about naughty clubs in london.my own fault for staying up late i guess, imagine my mums face when i asked her what those ladies were doing in plastic lol.

 

[Vixandra]

Don't really remember, in all honesty.
First real dose was when an older cousin handed me a book entitled "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" under one of Ann Rice's pen names. Lets just say I was a smidge "warped" to start with and it certainly got me headed on my current path.
Got in trouble for it in HS though, or rather a friend who'd borrowed one of the trio from me did- his mom found the book and burned it. I was, understandably, quite miffed by that one.

 

[anne22]

my first experience with BDSM was in the msn chatrooms when i was 20 and i had wandered into a Gorian room, where the women positively broke my spirit trying to enforce their rules about asking permission to even enter the room. It was all very silly and ritualistic and I didn't even know what it meant. Very uncomfortable...soooo glad I found you guys!!

annie

 

[Bikewer]

I was fascinated with bondage as a child, but in the 50's there were not too many "overt" images available in the media. At least, in the media available to a kid in the midwest, and Catholic to boot.
I was exposed to more adult material when I joined the army back in the 60's, but didn't really become aware of the diversity of BDSM activities until later. I recall seeing a bondage catalogue for the first time about 1968, and thinking, "Wow, this is the kind of stuff I've been fantasizing about!"

 

[Feel_The_Burn]

Haha, that was a fair few years ago. Maybe when I was, 9? I was wondering around the city, and saw this new adult shop selling whips and handcuffs. That shop stuck in my mind ever since, and now that I'm an adult, I'm fascinated with the idea. Learn more about it too, experience wise.

 

[Vixandra]

Haha, that was a fair few years ago. Maybe when I was, 9? I was wondering around the city, and saw this new adult shop selling whips and handcuffs. That shop stuck in my mind ever since, and now that I'm an adult, I'm fascinated with the idea. Learn more about it too, experience wise.

Let me guess- it was a ren faire?
*sighs*
I miss fair. Well most of it, those damn bodices can be deadly on hot days.
"You think that's painful? Try wearing a corset!" applies quite well.

Went through one fair with a set of leather cuffs attatched to my beld- amazing the questions one gets those days

 

[Harrowborg]

Oh man, how come everyone has some fun experience and I get some naff dull experience. :-(

 

[mitchell67]

I watched the Avengers before I can remember. At least every other episode featured Diana Rigg tied up and helpless. Plus her costumes.

http://www.tvacres.com/emma_peel_spikes2.jpg


Of course it took years to figure out what got me so excited.

 

[h_i_s]

i first became aware of the term BDSM while surfing online. i simply sat staring at my monitor screen as i read, thinking to myself, "ooohh... so that is what i AM?!!? .... i knew this... never knew it was called such.". From that point i became intent on surfing, reading, and becoming more informed. What a wonderful, sweet journey it has been thus far, add to that bliss the understanding that, "i have only just begun'

 

[Harrowborg]

Sounds like a life changing experience you had there, for the positive though which is a good thing.