I don’t know what it’s like to be bound to most bondage furniture. But I do know what it’s like to be bondage furniture. I was reminded of this when I showed up as a volunteer for Mark’s Dungeon Crew, part of the group who had offered to help set up the Portland Leather Alliance’s [...]
Archive for 2011
On Being Bondage Furniture
04 Dec 2011 at 16:09
maymay
Bitter and jealous, Emotions, Personal experience, Personal history, Politics of sex
Non-monogamy: A Human Internet for Compassionate Payloads
This article first appeared on the Good Vibes Magazine, and is slated to appear in this month’s issue of SsexBbox‘s pocket ‘zine. The Dalai Lama once said, “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” But today, as environmentalist and author Paul Hawken observed, “goods seem to have become more important, [...]
Raging Chrysalis: The End of the Mute Submissive Masculine
02 Sep 2011 at 19:20
maymay
Emotions, Male sexuality, Personal experience, Personal history, Politics of sex
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. —Thomas Paine Kink, in exile: There has been an explosion around the topic of male submission. [...]
Scaling the walls of FetLife’s walled garden (with new tools)
I want something that’s better than this. And I’m not sure exactly what it is but I think that we could build it if we try together. […] And that very same night, kids all across the earth felt lonely and confused, frightened and unsure, and we’re trying to find one another through a system [...]
