Donate to Submissive Guide

Submissive Guide is run by your donations, and affiliate purchases. I’m looking ahead into my 2nd year providing quality writing that is meant to help submissives everywhere learn about themselves and the services they wish to provide. I could use your help.

1. If you find Submissive Guide to be a valuable resource, please consider making a donation for continued writing. I put over 25 hours into this site every week.
2. You can do this by sending your donation via Paypal to subguide@gmail.com.
3. If you’d like some recognition for your donation, become a sponsor. Go to the website and submit your donation via the form on the right side of the page. As soon as your donation is complete, your message with URL will show up for 30 days on the site. It takes just $2 USD to show up in the list.
4. If money isn’t your idea of a donation, I would love to accept your gently read BDSM related books; both fiction and nonfiction. I will use them for reviews on the site.
5. I can also use your donations in the form of anything else I can use as prizes for giveaways and contests.
6. Lastly I’d love to know what you want to see on the site that I may be missing. Ideas are always welcome.

Thank you,

–lunaKM

Why You Should Sign Up for the Submissive Guide Newsletter

The Submissive Guide Newsletter is your personal direct channel to what’s on my mind. It’s delivered every 2 weeks right to your inbox for you to read at your own leisure. You are missing out if you haven’t signed up. I’ve got so much more to tell you; and I’m doing it with the newsletter. In just 2 months over 100 people have signed up to get the best of Submissive Guide sent directly to them.

But what else do you get with your subscription?

• Unique, quality content delivered directly to your email!
• Essays and tips not available on the website!
• Some of the best essays from the site!
• Each newsletter is on a different topic, and you drive the suggestions for topics!
• Occasional updates about Submissive Guide!
• First chance at new promotions, contests, giveaways and new features!

And that’s not all….

When you subscribe now you will get my new report on Wants and Needs: Knowing what you need and expressing your desires absolutely free, just for signing up. The report is 18 pages of useful and quality information that every novice submissive could use.

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Winners of Gift Certificates!

All of last month I held a fund raiser for the National Leather Association – International Domestic Violence Project. Everyone that donated $10 was placed in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate to JT’s Stockroom. Thanks to random.org the winner is….

SirTom52

The winner has been contacted by email to set up electronic delivery of the gift certificate. Contrats!

Now, for everyone that let me know they were going to post about the charity event on their website also got placed in a drawing for a $25 gift certificate for Amazon.com. I used random.org for this also. The winner is…

http://jadelioness.com/

Thank you everyone for participating.

If you have an idea for future giveaways and contests please let me know!

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Submissive Guide now has a bi-weekly newsletter that can help you improve submission and explore BDSM, just like the website. Why subscribe to the newsletter?

• Unique, quality content delivered directly to your email!
• Essays and tips not available on the website!
• Each newsletter is on a different topic, and you drive the suggestions for topics!
• Occasional updates about Submissive Guide!
• First chance at new promotions, contests, giveaways and new features!

And that’s not all….

When you subscribe now you will get my new report on Wants and Needs: Knowing what you need and expressing your desires absolutely free, just for signing up. The report is 18 pages of useful and quality information that every novice submissive could use.

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Would you like to get a topical newsletter sent directly to your email on a regular basis?

Submissive Guide now has a bi-monthly newsletter that can help you improve submission and explore BDSM, just like the website. Why subscribe to the newsletter?

• Unique, quality content delivered directly to your email!
• Essays and tips not available on the website! (Essays posted on the site 6 months after they are sent in a newsletter)
• Some of the best essays from the site!
• Each newsletter is on a different topic, and you drive the suggestions for topics!
• Occasional updates about Submissive Guide!
• First chance at new promotions, contests, giveaways and new features!

And that’s not all….

When you subscribe now you will get my new report on Wants and Needs: Knowing what you need and expressing your desires absolutely free, just for signing up. The report is 18 pages of useful and quality information that every novice submissive could use.

Review: The New Bottoming Book

This month’s book review is of one of the books I gave away in the July Book Contest. The New Bottoming Book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy (formerly Lady Green) is a great beginner’s guide to bottoming. According to the authors, this “new version” contains much of the original advice, like “connecting” and negotiation, but also has new and much-needed information.

The book is divided into two sections. The first one is about skills. These chapters help novices make decisions about who they are as a bottom, what checklists are, how to make one, including the way I recommended here not long ago, bridging the gap between fantasy and reality and finding a Top that will give you what you need and want. There is a big section on meeting someone online via chat rooms, mailing lists and/or Internet newsgroups and how to convert from “cyber” to “real-time,” and dealing with the fact that their “reality” may not match yours.

The second section starts describing different “scenes”, their ‘rewards’ and also tips on beginning and ending them Also included are sections on role play, with short subsections about bondage and submission. It has small sections on dressing, public play, sensation play and other thoughts when it comes to actual scenes. I feel these chapters are nice for a very fresh novice, but not necessary when someone has already been exploring somewhat.

All in all I find the book very basic in it’s explaining what bottoming is and how to start on that path. Certainly recommended for the novice this book can help shed the nervousness and dispel the fantasy of play.

Product Details

• luna’s Rating: 6 out of 10
• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Greenery Press (CA); 2nd edition (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890159352
• ISBN-13: 978-1890159351

Buy The New Bottoming Book

Announcing the Winner of the 2 Book Contest

Hi folks! Just a quick post today to announce the winner of the 2 Book Contest! I had a huge response and the list was really long. In the end the randomizer put this name at the top! Congratulations to:

arisl

Please contact me via twitter or email with your mailing address and I’ll get the book shipped out from Amazon.com to your mailbox!

Thank you everyone for participating.

If you enjoyed this giveaway let me know what you’d like to see for the next contest. I’m open to ideas. I will not be giving away sex toys, as that isn’t the purpose of this blog. Please keep that in mind when you give me suggestions!

Personal Hiatus: Death in the Family

Due to the death of my loving StepMother from Mesothelioma I will not be posting here until I return from her memorial and comforting my father. I am driving to Richmond, VA and expect to be gone around 10 days. May she rest in peace now that she is no longer in pain. Prayers, thoughts and candles lit in her memory would be welcome but not required. Her pain is now gone; her memory still bright in our hearts. I will miss her dearly. My heart breaks even though I know she is now free.

Please feel free to read the archives here and comment on posts that interest you.

–lunaKM

PS: Please continue participating in the 2 Book Contest. I will announce the winner upon my return.

artwork by Sir George Clausen

Submissive Guide On Twitter

If you haven’t joined the craze in new information delivery that is twitter, you are missing out. Thought to be the internet’s next big social media outlet, Submissive Guide decided to join from the onset. It’s been an amazing few months so far, and I’m still trying to figure out what my followers want as far as information from me in my tweets. If you have input as to what would be useful to you in short 140 character bursts throughout the day please let me know.

Follow Submissive Guide on Twitter!

What you can get from my twitter:

1. Links to interesting BDSM and submission related essays across the internet
2. Recommended FetLife submissive groups
3. Quotes and Journal Prompts
4. Household tips and tricks
5. Links to posts from other submissive communities
6. Suggested book reading
7. Notices about contests and giveaways
8. Submissive Guide new post notices
9. Questions and news from Submissive Guide
10. more…!

So what are you waiting for? Join twitter and follow the Guide now!

Are you interested in joining a group of submissives on Twitter? SubmissiveGuide.com has a Twibe. The Twibe is called ‘submissives‘. Once you join the twibe any tweets you do that have the keywords submissive, sub or slave in them with hashtags or not will automatically show up on the twibe page. This is quite nice for group discussion and getting to know one another!

Submissive Guide 2 Book Contest

In celebration of 6 months of existence and almost 200 posts here on Submissive Guide I’m excited to announce my first contest! Since Submissive Guide is all about enhancing and growing in your submission the first giveaway will be for two books from Amazon.com. The books are Erotic Slavehood: A Miss Abernathy Omnibus by Christina Abernathy and The New Bottoming Book by Janet Hardy. These are both excellent books to develop your submission and now both can be yours!

How to Enter

• Tweet this text: RT @subguide: I’m giving away Erotic Slavehood and The New Bottoming Book! Retweet to enter. Rules: http://is.gd/VVkP .
• You may tweet up to once a day. Each tweet counts as one entry. It’s up to you to decide how much you want to annoy your followers.
• You must be following me on Twitter or leave a comment on this post, so I can contact you if you win.
• I’ll give you an extra entry if you write a post on your blog about this contest. Be sure to send me the link, or reply to this post and let me know.
• The deadline is July 14th, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. CST.
• I will keep a list detailing each entry, and will be picking the winner using the List Randomizer.

Also…

• You must be willing to give me your address.
• Amazon.com ships internationally, so you don’t have to live in the U.S. to enter! Hurrah!