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Kink and Mental Health: The Background

Kink and Mental Health: The Background

By Rayne on July 23, 2010

There’s a lot of debate, in our kinky little corner of the worldwide web, about kinky people who have mental health issues.  What kinds of problems they cause, how to keep them from destroying the mood in kinky venues, whether or not D/s (and the structure that often comes with it) can help a person [...]

Posted in Social Norms, Submission | Tagged depression, mental health, mood swings, stereotype | 10 Responses

What NOT to Share on Your Online Profile

By lunaKM on February 13, 2010

This video post is about what not to share on your online profile. We all have one somewhere. FetLife being all the rage right now, but also we have alt.com, collarme.com, bondage.com and others where we place ads and identity profiles up to get people interested. This interest can be friends or relationship related; it [...]

Posted in Safety, Video Posts | Tagged abuse, Alt.com, Bondage, Bondage.com, CollarMe, cons, danger, dangers, dating, depression, email, false sense of security, family, fetlife, friends, information, internet, online, Online dating, online profiles, profile safety, relationship, rt, safe, Safety, security, Service, share, share photos, sharing, support, tips | 3 Responses

Handling Guilt from Mistakes and Punishment

Handling Guilt from Mistakes and Punishment

By lunaKM on April 16, 2009

Everyone at one time or another is going to go through moments of guilt. Submissives may have added self-guilt when you break a rule, or upset your Dominant. These things are going to happen as you develop and grow in your role and your life. It’s hard to believe but no one is perfect. What [...]

Posted in Mindset | Tagged attitude, balance, cons, definitions, depression, Dom, dominant, emotions, event, experience, guilt, help, IRC, needs, play, punishment, questions, recognizing guilt, resolving guilt, rt, sadness, self-care, sex, stereotype, submissive | 5 Responses

The Emotional Side of Sub Drop

The Emotional Side of Sub Drop

By lunaKM on March 27, 2009

Sub Drop can come in many different forms. Sub Drop is the emotional and physical affects of the release and drop of endorphins in the body after a play session.  Most of what you read online are the physical aspects; the fatigue, sadness, aches and pains and recovery from marks. There is a more intense [...]

Posted in Mindset, Playtime | Tagged ad space, advice, aftercare, balance, BDSM, book, boundaries, communication, connection, cons, consensual, depression, dress, emotions, endorphins, experience, fear, friends, help, history, instability, intimacy, kinky, lifestyle, limits, loneliness, love, marks, normal, online, partners, play, purpose, questions, recovery, relationship, Relationships, rt, sadness, scene, sub drop, submissive, trust | 7 Responses

Balancing Depression and Submission

Balancing Depression and Submission

By lunaKM on February 26, 2009

Everyone has gone though bouts of depression at one time or another. For some, it’s practically debilitating and others can handle it in stride without much of a bat of the eyelashes. I recently recovered from a long time depression with the help of medications and my Dominant’s caring. It’s never an easy process, but [...]

Posted in Health and Beauty, Mindset | Tagged balance, bath, bathing, comfort, depression, Dom, dominant, dress, friends, handling a submissive with depression, happiness, health, help, normal, play, routine, rt, rules, sadness, self-care, short, standing, submission, submissive, understanding | 3 Responses

Caring for Yourself After a Scene: Self-Aftercare

Caring for Yourself After a Scene: Self-Aftercare

By lunaKM on January 26, 2009

Aftercare is an important part of recovery from play for many people. It is most common to experience a drop in emotions and energy after play from within hours to even days later. All too often it becomes a necessity to take care of yourself after a play session because your top was just visiting [...]

Posted in Health and Beauty, Playtime | Tagged after care, aftercare, bath, book, books, bottom, bruises, control, depression, Dom, dominant, dominants, drop kit, emotions, endorphins, energy, event, experience, favorite, first aid, guilt, help, limits, loneliness, marks, partners, play, Playtime, recovery, recovery from play, relationship, Relationships, rt, sadness, scene, scening, security, self-care, short, sub drop, submissive, tips, training | 18 Responses

Importance of Needs

Importance of Needs

By lunaKM on January 7, 2009

In the previous post about wants and needs you made a list of your wants and a list of your needs so that you had them defined for your training resume. In this essay I will share why needs are so important to your overall health and happiness in a relationship and why settling for [...]

Posted in Submission, Training Resume | Tagged abuse, balance, clean, clothing, comfort, communication, compatibility, cons, control, D/s, depression, development, discussion, Dom, dominant, event, experience, friends, friendships, happiness, health, help, honesty, Impact, importance of needs, love, needs, openness, power exchange, relationship, Relationships, resume, rt, sadness, safe, Safety, security, share, stress, submission, submissive, training, Training Resume, trust, wants | 1 Response

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