BDSM

  • Woman bound with rope

    Submission & Subspace

    I’ve been excessively interested in spanking for as long as I can remember. However, I didn’t fully embrace my full kinky sexuality until I was forty.

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  • Man holding a belt

    My First Spanking

    This isn’t going to be an account of my first childhood spanking. I was born in 1974, so smacking children was considered a perfectly normal thing to do back then. I’m sure I was smacked occasionally, but I don’t remember it. And anyway, this really isn’t that sort of blog. This is about the first…

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  • Spanking Bench

    TP Dungeon – So long and thanks for all the spanks

    TP Dungeon in Staffordshire is closing its (anonymous-looking) doors for the last time. This is a sad time.

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  • Alexandra Noir - Freedom in Submission

    Book Review – Freedom in Submission by Alexandra Noir

    Alexandra Noir’s kinky book Freedom in Submission takes place in seventeenth century Massachusetts during the time of the Salem Witch Trials.

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  • Awakening by Zoe Asher

    Book Review – Awakening by Zoe Asher

    Zoe Asher’s Awakening is a well-crafted book with plenty of attention to detail but the relentless similarities to Fifty Shades of Grey and the stuffiness of the main characters’ arrangement are a bit off-putting.

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  • Icelandic BDSM band Hatari

    Hatari loves you

    Hatari outrageously deadpan, cheerfully nihilistic and obviously a bit kinky. I do believe I love them.

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  • Scene from The Duke of Burgundy

    The Duke of Burgundy

    Peter Strickland’s 2014 lesbian BDSM romantic drama The Duke of Burgundy is not the film I expected it to be. It certainly isn’t the film that the trailer thinks it is.

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  • A purple suede flogger

    The Flappiness of Floggers

    When it comes to my least favourite spanking implement, then that’s definitely the flogger. They’re just so annoyingly flappy.

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  • Wooden hairbrush

    Bad Neighbours

    Spanking is a noisy business. Unless you have a soundproofed spank dungeon, the application of a stout wooden paddle to a fleshy backside can have a bit of a reverberating sound to it.

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  • Tell Me by Ashe Barker

    Book Review – Tell Me by Ashe Barker

    In Ashe Barker’s wonderful romance Tell Me, the BDSM scenes are very hot and delightfully frequent.

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