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25 Apr 07 First House of Tanos podcast

I've uploaded an MP3 podcast (5MB) based on three of my recent weblog posts on "The Control Book", slave training and Club Lash in Manchester. This is really an experiment in seeing how podcasts work and how many people are interested, and it's quite short at only 10 minutes long. [more...]

17 Apr 07 "The Control Book" by Peter Masters

Peter Masters had an outline of this book on his website since the early 2000s and if you're really curious some of these versions are still there on the Internet Archive site. However, he's now produced a printed edition, published by Jack Rinella in March 2007, and this review is based on that expanded version. [more...]

14 Apr 07 Club Lash 9th birthday party

We've not been to Lash for a while, but lili, popi and I made a special effort to go last night, to Club Lash's 9th anniversary birthday party, and had a great time. [more...]

11 Apr 07 Slave Training

I've been thinking about training this week, partly to write the Slave Training article for the Ownership Wiki. Like the word "slave" itself it has a wide range of uses, from the profound (as another term for enslavement) to the ridiculous (for paid SM sessions with a dominatrix.) I've avoided using the term in the past because of its vagueness, but I'd now like to put these two words to work with a plausible definition. [more...]

8 Apr 07 Yorkshire to Nottingham prisons trip

Last week popi and I went on a prisons trip that I've been planning for almost a year, based on the closeness (from the point of view of Manchester) of prison museums in Yorkshire, Lincoln and Nottinghamshire. [more...]

6 Apr 07 Review of "Master Nage's Guide to Training"

I've been away this week and took the opportunity to read Nage's book. It's one of a sudden flurry of M/s books which have appeared in the last couple of years. I think it's clear that it's the weakest of the current crop but I'm going to try to highlight the good points as well as the rest. [more...]

25 Mar 07 Obedience dynamics

In this post, I'd like to tie together the various concepts and terms that surround obedience in Master/slave and Ownership relationships. Words like resistance, reactance, discipline, rules, submission, and obedience refer to different parts of the puzzle, but don't have well-defined boundaries, and I'd like to suggest a consistent set of definitions and some new ideas to help visualise the various processes of obedience. [more...]

16 Mar 07 Barcode tags ... really do scan!

I've now been able to try out barcode dogtags from two of the sources listed on the SLRN barcode suppliers page. I'm very impressed with the results, in particular that both types are scannable, despite being quite different in appearance to the high-contrast black-on-white barcodes you see in supermarkets and bookshops every day. [more...]

14 Mar 07 Options and choices, or lack thereof

If you're at all sick of the what gets posted to TPE/Enslavement forums sometimes, please have a read of this excellent post by kaya-s and all of the replies (especially i999shadow's)

11 Mar 07 Being Superman. Being Clark Kent.

We've watched Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films this weekend, and this is a short post I meant to write after seeing Volume II in the cinema. It's about identity and M/s. [more...]

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