Happy Birthday, Big Ben!

Open Sound New Orleans

I hear about this very cool interactive website featuring the sounds of New Orleans.

I am particularly excited about it because I've always wanted to visit New Orleans, and don't know if I'll ever be able to - mainly due to cost - not everyone has the financial wherewithal to be able to travel and see places they dream about. But there are still ways to learn, enjoy, and revel in faraway places. I have often armchair-traveled by reading books about the places I want to know more about. Of course, one can also listen to radio stories, watch television and film documentaries, etc. All of which I do.

But this new website is unique in that it has collected, and is continuing to collect, the individual sounds of a place. Sounds are in their own way just as powerful as sights. Maybe sometimes even moreso. I leave you now, to go explore New Orleans...by ear...

Diety

I highly recommend this blog...

BDSM Rights

I discovered this website today. I think they are behind a good idea, but it's an uphill battle, no doubt.

I'm unsure how much we should expect those who do not share our predilections to 'understand' us. I'll be content with 'live and let live'...

Eating Pussy

I think just listening to him talk about eating pussy is one of the most erotic experiences of my life...seriously...but then I am such an aural slut...lol

Assignment

I asked my Dom for an assignment. He's gone this week, and I'm bored (not to mention missing him like mad...)

His response:

i want you to learn the BDSM logo and tell me what it all means. there is a bit to it. also tell me in a report what predicament bondage is and how to apply it...

My answers:

While there are some differences of opinion on what the logo/emblem/symbol means, the generally-accepted emblem itself is the one based on the triskelion. The most well-known one is copyrighted by someone known as Quagmyr (who purports to be a one-man public-relations for putting out positive images of BDSM to the general public...) Beyond that, however, let me explain what most feel the meaning(s) of it are, in my own words...

1. Three sections symbolizing the various aspects/expressions of the lifestyle, i.e., Bondage & Discipline, Dominance/Submission, and Sadism/Masochism

2. Three main types of individuals (albeit not the only by far - that would be making things simplistic which the richness of human sexuality is far from being...) - Dominant, Submissive, and Switch

3. Three cardinal behaviors that guide (most) play - Safe, Sane, Consensual

Regarding predicament bondage? To sum it up - "You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't..." - To quote a literal definition, it is "...the art of restraining a person by bondage in such a way that there is a limited number of positions in which they can be, each of which are so uncomfortable that they are forced to shift their weight or position."

I have never experienced this on purpose, but I am familiar with the concept (and the experience) through unfortunate cirumstances. To add in the factor of a controlled environment, meted out with purpose and forethought...that would add in factors whose effect can only be imagined.

Your request on telling you 'how to apply it' I took to mean sharing a written example with you; I did some some research online and couldn't find a better set of examples than on this (wicked) website - the Dom who thought of these predicaments definitely has a twisted mind! LOL But I admit, he's damned creative. I would never think of this stuff myself...

I enjoyed the process of researching the answers (as I always do - I love researching for some reason no matter what the subject) and it got my mind off of being lonely...

Writing Sex

"...making generalizations about any group's sexuality, or attitude towards sexuality, is a very bad idea" for the same reason "'porn for women' is such an unwieldy concept: women are not a monolithic group with one set of ideas about what is hot." It's amazing that these things still have to be said.

The truth, says Debauchette, is that "it's harder to find 'straightforward' writing from men [because] their sexual narratives are often, though not always, obscured by ego."

Read more here...

Medical Revolution

"Hello? HELLO...?"

Mgmt

OK, I CANNOT get these guys out of my head. It's like a drug. I'm addicted...and I like it! LOL...

The weird thing is, they happened somewhat by accident. Don't you just love when that happens?!