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4 Mar 07 Erostek remote box

I've had an Erostek ET-302R remote control signal generator for a couple of years, but I've not used it for a while and not written about it, so after going out with popi and it today, I thought I'd made a few comments. [more...]

2 Mar 07 The Women Who Take Their Mate as a Master

In 1992 "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel" was published by Wilson and Daly as part of "The Adapted Mind", a collection of papers which established Evolutionary Psychology as a new way of looking at the mind in terms of evolution, and attempting to identify which aspects are the result of an evolved human nature. These evolved psychological mechanisms each made a contribution to survival and reproduction in the environment in which humans evolved, although many are no longer useful or even wanted by modern humans. Wilson and Daly's paper argued that one of these adaptations is that men [more...]

2 Mar 07 Registration for MASTER/slave Conference opens

Registration for the annual MASTER/slave Conference in Washington, DC has now opened. The conference takes place over the weekend of the 27-29th July 2007, and is the only major convention specific to M/s and 24/7 D/s relationships. The Northeast MASTER/slave Contest also takes place during the weekend of workshops and talks. (The Slave Register is now a Gold Sponsor of this event )

24 Feb 07 Review of "Evolutionary Psychiatry" by Stevens and Price

This week I finished Evolutionary Psychiatry by Anthony Stevens and John Price. I've had this book since it came out in 2004, but up to now I'd only read the Sadomasochism chapter and some of the introductory material. Now that I'm getting interested in evolutionary models for Internal Enslavement again, I decided to read it in full - not least because they discuss social rank and dominance in detail as part of their attempt to explain some psychiatric problems. [more...]

22 Feb 07 Marcus Ranum

I thought I'd start making a few more short posts about interesting image sites, starting with Marcus Ranum - whose site I found via www.humbledfemales.com Clicking on the picture will lead you to the rest of the photo, showing off some of the attractive Turian-style collars and cuffs that are so prominent on the TSR Slave Collars listing page.

12 Feb 07 M/s and Ownership listings pages

Over the weekend I added a listings section to The Slave Register, with a comprehensive list of suppliers of lockable metal collars, a page linking to other ownership-orientated discussion forums, a list of M/s conferences, and the daily weblogs feed that TSR has had for a while. A lot of this information is available on general BDSM sites like IC, but the items that are most relevant to ownership (like locking collars) are difficult [more...]

25 Jan 07 The Transferability of Ownership

The sale of slaves is one of the recurring themes of BDSM fiction and many people's fantasies, and it's raised from time to time in the ownership subculture: How can the ownership of slaves be transferred? Can they be sold? And even, where can they be bought? I don't believe this is really possible, and I'd like to explain my reasoning about the issue. [more...]

24 Jan 07 "The Ties that Bind" by Vanessa Duries

"Le Lien" ("The Bond" or "The Link") is an autobiographical account of a BDSM relationship by Frenchwoman Vanessa Duries. Following it's publication in 1993, she shot to fame and notoriety, and even appeared on French television, before dying in a car crash in the December of the same year, at the age of 21. I had high hopes based on reviews of the French original, but I'm quite disappointed. [more...]

13 Jan 07 Entitlement

One of the most interesting aspects of my relationship with lili is the way we revisit ideas from previous years in a new light or with new clarity. In the year since popi joined my household, one of the concepts we've been trying to turn into words is what we now call "Entitlement". This started as an idea to guide property, but over the holidays I realised that it also gave a name to an important idea for owners too. Yesterday, the word cropped up on the "Narcissism and D/s" thread on The Slave Register, and so I'm going to try to explain how we use that word now, and distinguish it from narcissistic [more...]

6 Jan 07 "The Story of O" revisited

I first read Story of O in 1993 and at the time I didn't really like it - certainly not its BDSM themes. I could see it was capital-L Literature, and I'd read enough modern fairy tales and fables to read between the lines, but to be honest, I was indifferent to it. I reread it twice over the years with no change in how I felt, although I did start to notice some astute observations and quotable passages. [more...]

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