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28 Jan 10   Suppliers page

Tonight I started a page listing BDSM suppliers that I've made purchases from over the years and are prepared to recommend. This really is a case of "put your money where your mouth is", rather than the comprehensive lists of vendors you see on sites like IC or TSR.
27 Jan 10   Jose Jimenez Aranda's slave girl

I've had a copy of Jose Jimenez Aranda's painting of a naked slave girl (sat on a rug surrounded by the feet of buyers) on my site since about 2003. I made a stab at the inscription she bears, and got as far as "Rose" ("Rhodon") and "18 (years)" ("IH"), but I've now got an official version. [more...]
26 Jan 10   Transferability thread on IC

New thread on the O&P group on IC: "I think it's taken for granted that the best things about dominants and owners tend to be transferable from one relationship to another: skills, experience, self-awareness and self-acceptance of one's desires and right to receive service etc. However, what about the submissives' side of things?"
25 Jan 10   Training thread on IC

TheFalconer started a training thread on the O&P group on IC. It's generated some good replies already
17 Jan 10   O&P group on IC

The O&P group on Informed Consent has gone past 100 subscribers and 28 topics. It's now become the busiest of the three O&P forums ... and remember you don't need to be resident in the UK to use IC
16 Jan 10   mia

I'm now in the early stages of a D/s relationship with mia, who started using Informed Consent a couple of years ago but registered on The Slave Register as 000-578-742 way back in 2001. [more...]
5 Jan 10   "The Curious Human Phenomenon" by Peter Masters

A couple of years ago I reviewed Peter Masters' previous title, "The Control Book", and "The Curious Human Phenomenon" is very much in the same vein. It doesn't try to teach you BDSM techniques, but instead tries to explain some of the reasons behind elements of BDSM. Masters summarises this by saying BDSM has an "abundance of 'how'" but a "scarcity of 'why'". [more...]
2 Jan 10   O&P Wiki

The Wiki on TSR acquired many good articles about D/s and M/s subjects in 2007 and 2008, but had only a handful of updates during 2009. It's now been rebranded as the O&P Wiki to give it more focus, and it appears on the O&P website itself now too. In the last week, I've updated a great many of the articles to make it more consistent, and include more O&P topics and links to O&P blog posts.
1 Jan 10   Those in between stages

One of the things that's attractive about O&P relationships is the clarity about where you stand and who's in charge. I've started a thread on the O&P group on IC asking about dealing with the transitions involved in moving from meeting as equals all the way to the dominant being in possession of the submissive. A lot of these stages are questions of consent: fundamentally, the sub consenting to allow the dom to do XYZ whenever they want, from then on. [more...]
11 Dec 09   Training - not just learning their preferences?

The word "training" is used in different ways in O&P relationships (or M/s, D/s etc): I think there's a divide between "training someone up", as an apprentice carpenter might be trained up and then qualify; and ongoing training, as sportsmen talk about when they've been ill and not able to "keep up with their training". [more...]

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