Negotiation, consent, and communication before, during, and after a scene.
11/9 we'll have a chit-chat about Aftercare and Drop. Because these two things are so often talked about in relation to "sweet, delicate, helpless" submissives, we're going to make sure that we also talk about, as @Sid calls them, "Those Who have no Souls", Dominants.
10/29/22 We discuss using Botanicals in BDSM, including botanicals used for health reasons, safety precautions in BDSM, and the use of many plants, vegetables, herbs, weeds, and spices in giving pain.
10/26/22 Sweet Sass leads a discussion on High Protocol - the whys and wherefores and also dips into mentoring
11/2/22 Sero discusses various aspects of consent.
"I am looking for a NEW SUBMISSIVE to collar as my slave." Why? This comment is perhaps one of the more common statements made by Male Dominant names in Internet chat rooms.
Qualities of a Dominant
DOMINANT, PREDOMINANT, PARAMOUNT PREPONDERANT, SOVEREIGN...superior to ALL others in power, influence or importance!
The act or process that reveals inherent qualities, traits, characteristics. A procedure for determining a change in condition.
A few definitions
There is a pervasive belief that because you are now oriented toward a different lifestyle that it is permissive to break all the rules of good conduct, ethics, morality, sexual responsibility and basic human dignity
The Switch. Adding this component into understanding of the community is often similar to adding a dose of confusion or chaos.
This distinction appears muddled, misunderstood and generalized by a great number of the people that I converse with.
As to the odds of finding a dominant female...
Submissive Rebound is a reaction that occurs in most submissives at some point in their relationship with a Dominant.
If a human being at some point in their childhood becomes the focus of physical and/or sexual abuse does this then turn them into a submissive at some later point in their lives?
All submissives being created as equal or the nature of expressed submission as being of one form to the exclusion or dicardment of any variations or diversity within the nature of that expression.
Polygon? Polynomial? Polyphenols? Poly wanna cracker? On 10/12 at 9PM ET, Sero leads a chat on Being Polyamorous that's not just for poly people! Yes, we know that polyamory is just wrong and should be wither multiamory or polyphilia but let's just go with it on Wednesday evening!
Sero talks about Jealousy in the Life and Lovestyle of BDSM. 10/19/22
SummersKiss talks about Establishing Healthy Boundaries. 10/22/22
Every adult has gone through some form of trauma and has had varying success with healing that trauma. On 10/15/22 The Kink Shrink talks about healing and managing trauma.
To grieve is normal and natural, and as such should not be seen as an issue or a condition to be cured, no set timings, your discomfort watching someone's process is a YOU problem, not a them problem.
Look, relationships don't always work out, and that is shit.
Submission is an action of personal strength.
Subspace - This term generally is used to describe a moderate to deep trancelike condition experienced by persons in the submissive position in a D/s relationship during interaction with the person in the Dominant position in the relationship.