BDSM

  • Rope bound woman

    Don’t Tell The Children.

    Maintaining an enthusiastic and abundant sex life is a tricky thing when you have a herd of tiny unreliable sleepers about the place. Is it even trickier when there’s spank-based kinkery involved?

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  • Roleplay checklist

    Roleplay

    Roleplaying isn’t something I’ve done before. Of course, you could argue that any kind of Dom/sub play is kind of role-playing.

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  • Woman wearing a ball gag

    Gags

    I haven’t been gagged before but it is something that I would be willing to explore with a partner that I trusted.

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  • Flagellation artwork by Martin van Maele

    Books I masturbated to as a Teenager Part 1 – “An Anthology of Erotic Prose” *

    I bought An Anthology of Erotic Prose (ed. Derek Parker) some point in my mid-teens. It quickly became very well-thumbed indeed.

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  • sjambok

    Sjamboks, Spanking and the Wrong Kind of Torture.

    Getting turned on by the wrong things is very much an occupational hazard for a kinkster.  (In fact, come to think of it, ‘getting turned on by the wrong things’ is probably the dictionary definition of a pervert.)

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  • Poster for Lars von Trier Nymphomaniac

    Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac

    Nymphomaniac is an epic four hour film by avant-garde director, Lars von Trier. It was split into two parts when released at the cinema presumably because there’s a limit to how much artily directed wall-to-wall sex your average cineaste can be expected to sit through even when there is a naked Stacy Martin on screen…

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  • Scene from the movie Secretary

    Submission, spanking and self-harm

    There is a scene in Steven Shainberg’s Secretary where E Edward Grey speaks to Lee, his secretary and submissive, about her history of self-harm. “Is it that sometimes the pain inside has to come to the surface?”

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  • The Diary of a Submissive by Sophie Morgan

    Book Review – Diary of a Submissive by Sophie Morgan

    Sophie Morgan’s Diary of a Submissive is honest, insightful, articulate and open. And kinky, of course.

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  • Pet Shop by K D Grace

    Book Review – The Pet Shop by K D Grace

    I was intrigued by the premise of The Pet Shop, the organisation at the centre of the story which hires out human pets to would-be owners for extortionate fees.

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  • Elvis Presley spanking Jenny Maxwell in Blue Hawaii

    Spanking in the Movies

    I tend to be drawn to films where I know there is going to be be some kind of spanking and below are four such films which I’ve seen and my thoughts on them.

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