Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please.
~ Lori Petty in Tank Girl


We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
~ Audre Lorde

 

"Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."
~ Eduardo, (Anais Nin's Cousin in the movie Henry & June)

 

Sometimes I feel, like I've been tied to the whippin' post.
Oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying.
~ The Allman Brothers (song)

 

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.
~ Rachel Field

 

Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has.
~ From the movie Dolores Claiborne

 

Submission without domination is when you keep doing what he wants even after he keeps insisting he doesn't want it. Domination without submission is when he keeps telling you to do something and you keep telling him to fuck off.
~ Linda

 

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
~ Anais Nin

 

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling all that I am capable of doing but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.
~ Anais Nin

 

Feelings that originate in the human genitalia are among the most powerful forces on earth. They have a complex relationship with the feelings that stem from the human heart; at various times in competition or in harmony... One of the supreme goals of spiritual work is to harness the sexual urges in service to the heart's wisdom.
~ Rob Brezsny, www.freewillastrology.com

 

Thou art to me a delicious torment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Sexuality is a sacrament.
~ Starhawk

 

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself and so to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
~ James Baldwin, Author

 

A riding crop and a blindfold doesn't make it BDSM. There is a big difference between being kinky and being in the scene. It's not a sexual thing to me, it's a very spiritual thing.
~ DominaBlue

 

Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure.
~ Mitch Kessler

 

BSDM is an erotic art which does not require conventional sex acts to explore and practice. That's my philosophical story, and I'm stickin' to it.
~ Elizabeth

 

i can't get all involved in what is 'protocol' and what is not... good grief, relationships are hard enough... i frankly just prefer to please my partner and follow his lead, regardless of what it is... isn't that what D/s is, after all?
~ Stacey

 

Subspace is my perfect paradise vacation from busy-mind... blessed be to the Dominant who can stamp my ticket there.
~ Elizabeth

 

When I was brand new, I felt it important to belong to a group. I was elated to find others like me, and to find out I wasn't "weird," after all. But now, the politics have changed that. Since I have always had a distaste for politics, I now align myself with INDIVIDUALS.
~ Madam Phoenix

 

For me, the goal of any of the BDSM activities is to break barriers and boundaries, sending me into a more primal, raw connection...to erase the civilized conventions and attain that connection, space, where there is no skin, no outer layers, but simply raw primal emotion.
~ Stacey

 

Stars hid your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.
~ From The Talented Mr. Ripley

 

"Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability...nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff"
~ From The Ethical Slut by
Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt

 

The slave escapes her bonds to find a stronger set of chains.
~ Anonymous

 

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~Susan Sontag

 

I’ve always been into it in fantasy going way back, and in practice taking what I could, playing around the edges of vanilla relationships. What I’ve come to realize about myself is that I cannot be happy without a strong D/s, s/m element in my lover. I feed to deeply with it for me to try to patch together a relationship, no matter how loving, without having it. So, realizing that I got involved. Started on a path to become the kind of man who can be trusted to Top a woman cleanly and with passion, and tried to find partners for whom my roles, fantasies, my dominant and sadistic nature is not an undesirable or merely tolerated inconvenience, but an asset, something prized and sought.
~ Master Foxx

 

The seduction emanating from a person of uncertain or dissimulated sex is powerful.
~ Colette

 

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