How many of you post pictures on the Internet of your BDSM experiences? Or maybe on FetLife or your blog?

Sharing photos has been something I have done from the very beginning. For a long time, though, I was uncomfortable showing my face in any fetish pictures since I was partly worried about the risk of being outed and also because I wanted to be anonymous within the scene.

Therefore, there were no facial pictures on my blog for two or three years worth of entries. I liked being anonymous on my blog, and I loved writing just to the void in general, and I never really expected anyone I might meet (other than my partner) to read it. But they did, and eventually, the virtual and public BDSM aspects of things crossed over, and some people local to me realized I was the person behind the words.

However, the more my relationship with Grimly developed, the more confident I became and more comfortable accepting myself. I used to be timid, and I still am around new people, but expressing this side of myself in words and pictures has helped my confidence a great deal.

I don't have a high-risk job or children; therefore, the damage being outed would cause is significantly small compared to people with those responsibilities.

Ultimately though, I'm a shy exhibitionist, and I like getting feedback on what I do. It might not float everybody's boat, but getting feedback is still good.

I also like saying that I'm not a model (although I've done some amateur modeling for both a spanking site and a bondage site, but not very much). I'm an average-sized person of average looks. I like saying I'm a real person, a normal-sized woman, and not a stick insect. BDSM is not just for the fashionable or the thin it is for everyone that wants to engage in it.

For that reason, I post pictures quite a lot.

Alternative options

Of course, being able to post pictures of BDSM and uniquely identifiable ones is not for everyone. There are still ways of keeping personal photographic records.

We have in the past made up scrapbooks of our favorite photos to show new people that we meet to provide an easy answer to 'so what are you into' because while I'm unsure about anyone else, I've always struggled to answer that succinctly. Because, well, it's most things!

Such items don't need to be shared. It might be a good idea to keep a photo diary for your Dom if you can't share it publicly.

I don't know... I like looking back and seeing what I've done and what I've looked like doing it!

Keeping some things private

However, I do have some restrictions on what photographs I'm comfortable sharing. I don't like pictures that show my face and genital nudity in the same image if I can avoid it. I think it makes it too personal and invasive, and I want to share it with my Dom and no one else. He's the only one I want to share my orgasms and screams with; for the same reason, I'm against the idea of looking into posting any video.

Whether this is a good rule of thumb, I don't know, but that is ours.