Tag: Vanilla and kink

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Friction Can Bring Joy.

A great writer once said that not everybody is sad in the same way. Well, I’d say that nobody enjoys pleasure in the same way. We all have our own private menu for a three-course meal: arousal, satisfaction, and aftermath. In my case, friction can bring joy beyond anything imaginable. In my case, I have…
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Community Festival with Shibari

Every year, in the residential area where I live, there’s a community festival, in which all the neighbors that sign on to it can perform on stage. Some of them sing, some of them dance, and some of them do magic tricks. And yes, it’s as boring as it sounds. But not this year. This…
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Shibari and Common Fetishes

Shibari is one of the most flexible BDSM practices. It can be combined with almost any other interest within the kinky realm. Shibari and common fetishes mix up together very well. For this article, we conducted a survey online, and this is what our interviewees had to say. Blindfold. Being deprived of sight while you’re…
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Unexpected Honeymoon Surprise

I want to make something clear from the beginning: I love my husband. We’ve been married for six months, and it is a daily dream. I knew it was going to be like this. My heart told me he was the one. However, my intuition also told me that he was a little bit more…
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Tell the Truth

“I want a man who is man enough to pin me down and tie me up.” That’s what I said. And the rest of the girls stared at me as if I had said some blasphemy. And in a certain way, I did. I spoke against hypocrisy. I told the truth, and I’d like everybody…
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Try Anything Once

“I’ll try anything once”, is my motto. And I think it’s a good philosophy of life. After all, how can you know if something is good or bad if you haven’t tried it? I think we should give everyone and everything a chance. If it doesn’t work, you don’t lose much, and if it does,…
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Common Misconceptions about BDSM

Mac Mclaughlin, administrator of the “Free the Kink” Facebook group, posted this question: “What are some common misconceptions about BDSM you’ve encountered?” There were over thirty answers, and here we discuss the results. As you probably know, BDSM has been surrounded by misconceptions from the start. It has taken a long time for people to…
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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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Mr. Pepper

Mr. Pepper was the most vanilla person you could ever meet. He always spoke as if he were writing a letter to City Hall. You know, “Oh, Ms. Lombardo, it’s so joyful to meet you by chance on this wonderful morning.” You would never see him with less than three layers of clothing, even on…
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Kink Is OK, Part II

In a previous article, we mentioned the changes to the most recent edition of the DSM, the “official” psychological guide to mental disorders. From now on, psychologists will not consider kink as a pathology. Instead, it becomes a set of “unusual sexual interests.” It is only when there is a lack of consent, abuse, or…
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