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Kink Fundamentals

From understanding basic kink concepts to exploring various fetishes, this category is your starting point for building a solid foundation in the world of BDSM.

BDSM Basics – How Do I Find Someone to Play With?

This entry is part 15 of 19 in the series New to BDSM? Start Here

It’s the burning question on our lips now isn’t it? Through the earlier posts we’ve learned whether you are kinky, what role or roles we might enjoy and how to stay safe when exploring kink. So it makes sense that you now want to know how to find someone to experiment with and maybe have a relationship with! I’m going

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The Year’s Best-Selling BDSM Books and eBooks from Amazon Voted by YOU

some time pulling together the entire year’s count of sales through Amazon.com from Submissive Guide’s links. I wanted to know what you all were reading! And boy is it interesting! Check it out and if you see a book that peaks your interest, head on over through the link and check it out. Your other

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BDSM Basics: Am I Dominant or submissive?

This entry is part 17 of 19 in the series New to BDSM? Start Here

Whether you’ve read 50 Shades of Grey or another drugstore dirty romance novel and then decided to go exploring in BDSM or you’ve found BDSM another way one of the first questions everyone has is are they Dominant or submissive? It sure feels like a good place to start and I am going to help

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How S&M Saved My Life

Growing up my parents were extremely physically and emotionally abusive. I moved out when I was thirteen, but I carried the previous abuse with me wherever I went. It made me cry when I detected the slightest amount of anger towards me, it made me shake and pull away when people waved their hands at

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BDSM Basics: Am I Kinky If…?

This entry is part 18 of 19 in the series New to BDSM? Start Here

You’re surfing the internet one day and come across a forum of people talking about their sex lives. It’s interesting to you so you stop and read a bit. Just when you thought you were like everyone else, someone mentions something that you enjoy doing during sex and the responses are, “Oh that’s kinky!” It

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No Stupid (Sex Toy) Questions: Should my vagina be burning?!

Over at my personal blog, InsatiableDesire.com, I write a series called ” No Stupid (Kink) Questions (NSKQ)”. I started it a few years ago because every time I stuck my head in a kink forum, I found serious questions asked by newbies and never really answered by more advanced kinksters. I mean, if you are proficient in

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BDSM and the Media: The Influence of Media on the Perception of BDSM

With the trailer of the “50 Shades of Grey” movie being released, my Facebook newsfeed and what I have seen on Fetlife in multiple groups, that’s all anyone seems to be able to talk about. I have managed to not see the trailer because I have no interest, but some of the discussions that have come up,

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Manners, Etiquette and Appropriateness When Interacting with People in the BDSM Scene

This entry is part 14 of 35 in the series Rituals, Rules and Protocol

One thing I learned while putting together the Guide to Your First Munch was that when someone goes to a meeting for kinky people, with the idea that they are entering a whole new world, they think that all the courtesies and manners they learned before are somehow no longer extinct. People often ask me how they

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Exploring Hormone Junkies: Part 4 – Endorphins

This entry is part 4 of 23 in the series Pain Processing

This is a guest post by  Erika McClean. There is a whip in my closet that is an antique.  It’s the kind that Drayers would use on their horse teams when driving a carriage.  When I’ve been particularly bad, or good, Master will unhook that puppy from the rope it’s hanging on.  Those moments, as he

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Exploring Hormone Junkies: Part 3 – Testosterone

This entry is part 5 of 23 in the series Pain Processing

This is a guest post by  Erika McClean. Do you ever have that feeling when your Master is working you over and waiting for you to say “uncle,” that you will be damned if you’re going to say it before his arm gets too tired to flog you anymore?  I do.  I’m a brat through and

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