letters under the skin
So here we are, at the end of the alphabet soup. We’ve unraveled the roles—Dom, sub, switch, Top, bottom—the safe words and traffic lights, the…
Category: dominion
what’s a scene
Why Are We Always Talking About It? People toss the word scene around like it’s shorthand for some underground play—equal parts theater, ritual, and confession…
vanilla
Not a Dirty Word, Just a Different Flavor “Vanilla.” The word gets tossed around like an insult in some corners of the dungeon, rolled eyes…
theater of kink
Titles and Protocols Behind closed doors, people do strange shit. Strange enough to make even the open-minded squirm, strange enough to make the word normal…
the lifestyle:
What It Means to Live the Letters BDSM is a strange beast. For some, it’s an occasional kick, a weekend fling, a spark they light…
switches:
The Bisexuals of BDSM? People love tidy little boxes. They crave labels that fit on a shelf, neat categories they can point at like specimens…
ssc, rack, and prick:
Acronyms for the Perverts Who Plan Hang around long enough in the kink world and you’ll hear the alphabet soup get tossed around: SSC, RACK,…
safe words
Why We Don’t Just Say ‘Ouch’ Movies always fuck this part up. You’ve seen it—the tied wrists, the flogger in mid-swing, the moaning that turns…
meet the cast:
Dom, Sub, Switch, and Friends Step into the scene and you don’t find cardboard cutouts in leather costumes—you find people. Messy, complicated, hungry people. They…
the alphabet of desire
Introduction: Breaking Open the Box BDSM isn’t tidy. People want it to be—they want neat boxes, quick labels, definitions they can stick to their lovers…