Over the summer of 2010, Kendra (aka The Beautiful Kind), asked me for a brief email interview to make a profile for her column “You Are The Beautiful Kind.” Recently, however, it had vanished from her website and over email she told me she decided to take down the entry with the answers she solicited [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal history’ Category
My Beautiful Kind Profile: “Sex, like a bright candle, has no innate morality”
Stand Against Stigma: Don’t Succumb to a Fear of Sex, Sexual Speech, or Sexual Freedom
02 Apr 2010 at 22:57
maymay
Community, Personal experience, Personal history, Politics of sex, Vanilla life
I have marched in two Pride Parades. Both times, I marched with the group of people who are skilled enough with that most iconic symbol of sadomasochistic sex to make some serious noise: the single tail whip. I remember the experiences vividly. Pride day is a good day. I raise my arm, swing the whip, [...]
On Youth, Sexuality, Education, and Your Fears
01 Nov 2009 at 00:14
maymay
Community, Generation gap, Kink events, Personal history, Politics of sex, Vanilla life
In just 3 weeks time, on November 21st, the sexuality education, health, and rights conference series that many people, including me, have been working on for months is going to be held at the Montgomery County Executive Office Building, a 5 minute walk from the Rockville Metro station in the Washington, DC metro area. I’m [...]
I, too, kink on BDSM stereotypes
17 Jul 2009 at 04:51
maymay
BDSM psychology, Beginner BDSM, Emotions, Femdom, Male sexuality, Personal history
As sometimes happens, the Internet sends me alerts of things I’ve told it I might find interesting. Tonight, Delilah Wood’s post, Questioning Desires: A place for sissies and worms? splashed onto my radar. Reading the post, I found it heartening to find that there are people, like Delilah, who have been reading me and, even [...]
Article published in Kink-E magazine: Learning the Ropes
31 May 2008 at 03:01
maymay
BDSM psychology, BDSM safety, Beginner BDSM, Communication, Community, Femdom, Male sexuality, Myths and misconceptions, Personal experience, Personal history, Writing and blogging
I’ve been somewhat silent on this blog for a little while and some of you probably already know why. For those that don’t, my professional life has been all a twitter with all sorts of tasks related to my first (non-BDSM or sexuality-focused) book publication. That’s quite exciting, but it also means I’ve pretty much [...]
One night, I fell in love
06 Feb 2008 at 04:17
maymay
BDSM psychology, D/s dynamics, Emotions, Faceslapping, Femdom, Knife play, Male sexuality, Personal experience, Personal history, Relationship
Back on May 3rd, 2005, a bit after 4 AM in the morning, I came home from an evening out at one of TES‘s “College Night” parties at New York City’s local BDSM club, Paddles. A little over a month earlier, I had first met Eileen at Conversio Virium, but it had been significantly less [...]
