Tag: Shibari and Gender Roles

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Letter to My Dad

My name is Aileen. I’m 21, and I’ve been kinky for a few years now. My dad is a good man. I want to make that clear from the beginning. But there are things he just doesn’t understand. For example, he’s all into traditional gender roles, and he doesn’t understand that a woman can be…
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A Real Cowboy

I always wanted to be a real cowboy. Not a cowgirl, a cowboy. I can’t help seeing cowgirls as some sort of fantasy cowboy. And it’s not that I don’t like being a girl. I’m quite happy with who I am. It’s just that I believe a cowboy is the real thing. It all began…
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Stay on the Ground

I can’t stay on the ground. Period. Since I was a kid, I thought that the world was a wonderful place, except for the fact that we, humans, had to stay stuck to the ground. For me, the force of gravity is the greatest villain in history. By the way, my name is Emily. As…
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I always Consented

A couple of weeks ago, Ms. Dorothy Kupra, also known as “The Purple Witch,” a renowned feminist, devoted her weekly column on The Warrior Vagina website to criticizing BDSM in general and bondage in particular. In her text, Ms. Kupra said that BDSM is “by definition, oppressive to women.” She also stated that “while it…
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Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy

Ropes. I’ve lived surrounded by them. I’m not kidding. When you’re born and raised in one of the hundreds of towns sprinkled among rural Montana, the most probable thing is that you end up knowing quite a lot about barns, farming, tractors, and ropes. Of course, not all cowgirls end up with an affection for…
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Submission of an Empowered Woman

Some people worry that Shibari is not compatible with the new female type: the empowered woman. Therefore, we decided to interview a young woman we’ll call Mandy and explore how the submission of an empowered woman is possible nowadays. The first question was: Why do you consider yourself an empowered woman? Mandy: Well, to begin…
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Change of Tides

There’s been a change of tides, that’s a fact. We do things people from the previous generations didn’t do, and we stopped doing things that they normally did. I think about this while I’m on the elevator, on my way to Mindy’s office. She’s a business executive. So, she spends the day in her office,…
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