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 the ‘Emotions’ Category
On Being Bondage Furniture
04 Dec 2011 at 16:09
maymay
Bitter and jealous, Emotions, Personal experience, Personal history, Politics of sex
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. […]
On Letting The World Burn
And it’s go boys go They’ll time your every breath And every day you’re in this place you’re two days nearer death But you go… Well a process man am I and I’m tellin’ you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that tread across the sky There’s thunder all around me and […]
It’s foggy today: how BDSM and sex can be emotional self-medication in a cruel world
It was foggy in my (new) hometown of San Francisco today. I like fog. If I were weather I would be, I think, a dense fog. A friendly acquaintance of mine is fond of asking, “How’s your weather?” She does this instead of using the more common, “How are you?” I like her rephrasing because the […]
An appeal for safe intellectual exploration: Touch me thoughtfully
Ever since I became the focus of certain political and legal pressure, I’ve been scared of reflecting too casually on thoughts or feelings filling me. For a time, this blog became more like a broadcast station than a personal journal. I also became guarded because the people closest to me, the ones from whom I […]
I am no Hercules
15 Nov 2010 at 00:07
maymay
Bitter and jealous, Community, Emotions, Personal experience, Personal history, Politics of sex, Rant
Earlier this evening, I recorded what may be one of the final Kink On Tap shows, Kink On Tap Episode 67. In addition to making that announcement, there were some more things I strongly felt needed saying. I basically sat down and wrote a stream-of-consciousness set of notes from which I based what I wanted […]
