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Subs Prefer Older Partners

BDSM practices require skill, imagination, and a strong sense of responsibility toward the other participants involved. In the case of subs, it is not easy to find someone with whom to share their vulnerability. That’s why many subs prefer older partners, who already have experience developing relationships within a power dynamic and performing different practices.…
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Rope Restraint as Punishment Play

Punishment play stands as a prevalent BDSM practice, intricately entwined with dynamics of dominance and power. Similarly, the artful allure of Shibari, often associated with aesthetic beauty, can be repurposed for rope restraint as a form of punishment play. This unique convergence between artistic expression and disciplinary action harkens back to Shibari’s origins in Hojojutsu,…
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Top-Bottom Coordination

Whenever you’re working with someone else, you’re coordinating yourself with that person. Coordination might sound like just another way to say “working together”, but it goes way beyond that. The Oxford Dictionary defines coordination as “the organization of the different elements of a complex activity so as to enable them to work together effectively.” As…
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The Sense of Community

You might have heard of the BDSM community, the bondage community, and so forth. This word, “community”, not only makes reference to a group of people, but it is a wider concept that includes emotional and psychological factors. In this article, we discuss the importance of a sense of community among Shibari lovers. In its…
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Shibari for Conservatives

You might think that Shibari in particular and Kink as a whole are matters for liberal people. After all, it is mostly the open-minded who dare to deviate from mainstream lifestyles. They are the ones who run into alternative ways of living. From this point of view, conservatives have as much to do with Shibari…
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Awareness

Would you enjoy the most wonderful music if you were deaf? Certainly not. Well, some people watch and even participate in bondage scenes, and yet, it is as if they were somewhere else, for they don’t seem to realize what’s going on. This is due to their lack of awareness. The Oxford Dictionary defines awareness…
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How to Say No

In a negotiation, each of the parts has the right to agree and disagree with the ideas of the other part. In other words, negotiating doesn’t mean that you always have to say “yes”, just because the other party asked you to agree to something. You have the right to say no. And it is…
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Deviation

The Oxford Dictionary defines a deviation as “the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard.” Colloquially, people use it as a synonym for the unusual, the weird, and the alternative. More importantly, the sense of deviation is the essence of kink. People used to think about deviations as something abnormal, wrong, or…
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Shibari at College

Shibari at college is not a bad idea. After all, college students are young and beautiful. Moreover, they are not underage, and they have the stamina and the open mind to try almost any kink in the catalog. However, it is not exactly a bed of roses. That’s why, in this article, we offer some…
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More Shibari Fantasies

In the previous article, we asked some rope enthusiasts about their favorite bondage fantasies. In this article, we offer you more Shibari fantasies. Jill: “My fantasy is that I’m a spy; you know, I grew up watching Kim Possible. And the problem is that the villain has caught me. Now I’m tied to a cell…
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