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SubWise #5: A Year’s Reflection

By lunaKM on December 23, 2009

Last week I asked you to talk about your reflections on the year and your progress with submission. Here are the submissions I received. There is some excellent advice here folks! Check it out. Make sure you leave comments! (Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.) Decorating Master’s Sofa lunaKM [...]

Posted in SubWise | Tagged advice, annual reflection, blogs, bottom, carnival, journey, progress, rt, share, submission, submission carnival, submissions, SubWise | 1 Response

SubWise #5: A Year’s Reflection – Participation Request

By lunaKM on December 15, 2009

Its time for SubWise! You know what to do by now. I’m going to give you a topic to write about and your task goes like this: Write about the topic in your blog or online journal. You don’t have to have a blog to participate. If you have a FetLife account you can use your [...]

Posted in SubWise | Tagged annual reflection, bottom, carnival, challenges, email, fetlife, friends, online, online journal, progress, resolutions, rt, submission, submissions, SubWise, writing | Leave a response

One month into my first real time D/S relationship: A Training Review

By Guest Author on November 16, 2009

This is a Guest Post by A. She is a new submissive in her first 24/7 dynamic. I received this wonderfully written review of her first 30 days and she offered to share it with everyone here. Enjoy! It has come to my attention after reading submissiveguide.com that my training with Sir has already begun, [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged 24/7, acceptance, BDSM, Bondage, clean, cleaning, clothing, control, D/s, Dom, Dominance, dress, dynamic, experience, favorite, fetlife, focus, grooming, growth and development, guest post, hands, help, honesty, infraction, kneeling, learned, learning, lingerie, love, natural, needs, online, orgasm control, play, positions, progress, protocol, punishment, RACK, relationship, requests, review, risk, ritual, rituals, rt, sex, share, spanking, speech, submission, submissive, submissive understanding, toy, toys, training, understanding, wants, worship, writing | 10 Responses

Submissive and Slave: A Personal View

Submissive and Slave: A Personal View

By Rayne on November 11, 2009

This post was written by Rayne. You can follow her twitter for active and interesting conversation. I’m pretty big on book definitions. So for me, the word “submissive” has always been an adjective describing a personality trait. When I got involved in BDSM, it became, for me, a heading, of sorts, describing a group of [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged 24/7, BDSM, blogs, book, bottom, choice, communication, community, cons, control, definitions, desires, Dom, dominant, dominants, guest post, IRC, labels, lifestyle, limits, m/s, masochist, needs, owned, perfect world, play, play parties, power exchange, progress, protocol, Rayne, relationship, Relationships, review, rt, rules, safe, safe words, scene, series, Service, sex, short, slave, submission, submissive, toy, transparency, twitter | 1 Response

When Protocol Becomes Boring

When Protocol Becomes Boring

By lunaKM on October 21, 2009

Protocol. It can be a scary word if you are new to submission. In a relationship, it is likely that you will have some protocol established to control your behavior. So, what is protocol? Simply defined, protocol is the set of special rules that you follow for defined situations that remind you of your place [...]

Posted in Rituals and Routines | Tagged BDSM, bdsm fiction, book, books, communication, cons, control, Dom, dominant, essays, etiquette, event, experience, fantasy, focus, happiness, help, learned, leather, lifestyle, m/s, meditation, Mindset, normal, online, play, progress, protocol, RACK, relationship, review, ritual, routine, rt, rules, scene, sensuous, sex, stress, submission | 2 Responses

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This Collar, That Collar, Your Collar, My Collar

By lunaKM on June 17, 2009

A collar for submissives is one of the most fundamental symbols of their relationship and one that is usually gaurded and protected with their heart.  With all the essays online about collars I thought I’d jump in with my own take on what everyone says and believes about collars. Play Collars The first type of [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics, Relationships | Tagged BDSM, bdsm play, cheapen, collar of consideration, collaring, collars, commitment, cons, desires, Dom, dominant, essays, experience, formal collar, leather, levels of collars, lifestyle, memories, online, permanent collar, pictures of collars, piercing, play, player, progress, RACK, relationship, rt, share, slave collar, stress, submissive, symbolism, symbols, tattoos, training, training collar, types of collars, value, velcro collars | Leave a response

Just Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Telling Your Family

By lunaKM on May 30, 2009

This post is from Norische. She allows anyone to post her articles anywhere they will do some good. I could not come up with a better way to say what she does in this article. Please enjoy and comment! I’d love to hear if you have told your family and how it went. “So what [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics | Tagged abuse, acceptance, activities, BDSM, bdsm lifestyle, choice, choices, Christian, clean, comfort, communication, community, cons, consensual, control, Dom, dress, email, family, fear, floggers, friends, harnesses, help, implement, information, kink acceptance, kinky, leather, lifestyle, love, myths, natural, negotiation, normal, obedience, openness, opinion, outting yourself, paddles, play, progress, relationship, religion, rt, rules, safe, sane, sex, sharing, single, sister, slave, slavery, standing, stress, submissive, tall, telling family, toy, toys, understanding, whips, writing | 4 Responses

Carte Blanche – Repeating Misbehavior Patterns

Carte Blanche – Repeating Misbehavior Patterns

By lunaKM on May 14, 2009

Getting in trouble. We’ve all been there a time or two. It comes with learning and training new things as well as changing behaviors. Our Dominants generally don’t derive any pleasure out of punishing us and the guilt we put on ourselves can be more damaging than the misdeed in the first place. Allowing that [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged advice, attitude, behavior patterns, carte blanche, changing, changing behavior, clean, communication, cons, control, Dom, dominant, dominants, energy, experience, focus, guilt, help, journey, learned, learning, Mindset, needs, normal, novice, play, progress, punishment, punishments, relationship, Relationships, rt, rules, submission, submissive, support, training, trust, wants | 1 Response

Stop Fidgeting! [Day 12 - 2WBSP]

By lunaKM on May 2, 2009

Just 2 days left in the Submissive Positions project here at Submissive Guide. If you need a review, please take a look at the primary post; it has links to all of the posts in the project. Today I’d like to talk about the bane of many a submissive; fidgeting. Sitting still is really hard [...]

Posted in Submissive Positions | Tagged 2WBSP, Bondage, comfort, fidgeting, focus, help, learning, links, mediation, meditation, movement, munch, play, positions, progress, relaxation, review, rt, slave positions, submissive, Submissive Positions | Leave a response

Rise From The Floor With Finesse [Day 4 - 2WBSP]

Rise From The Floor With Finesse [Day 4 - 2WBSP]

By lunaKM on April 24, 2009

The next part of this two week series is about getting up from the floor. You’ve already learned about kneeling, standing at attention and lowering yourself with grace. Stick around, we have a lot to learn. If you’ve ever watched Memoirs of a Geisha you have seen how graceful it  can be to rise from [...]

Posted in Submissive Positions | Tagged 2WBSP, Dom, dominant, getting up off the floor, grace, hands, help, kneeling, learned, links, movement, positions, progress, review, rising from the floor, rt, series, standing, submissive | 3 Responses

The Differences Between Bottom, Masochist, Submissive and Slave

The Differences Between Bottom, Masochist, Submissive and Slave

By lunaKM on January 19, 2009

As a point of personal opinion I’d like to define the differences between very basic terms so that there is no confusion as to who I am referring to when I mention either of these terms. I write this guide in my perspective and provide my mentorship and guidance with these terms clearly defined for [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged basics, bottom, control, D/s, definitions, difference in terms, discussion, Dom, dominant, limits, masochist, mentor, opinion, pets, play, progress, relationship, roles, rt, rules, safe, scene, Service, share, slave, structure, submission, submissive, titles, toy, toys, viewpoints | 29 Responses

Thursday Question #1: A Look Back One Year

Thursday Question #1: A Look Back One Year

By lunaKM on January 8, 2009

Looking back on 2008, where have you progressed and where have you fallen short? Are you making plans for goals the coming year? What was the best moment of 2008? The worst? photo credit h.koppdelaney

Posted in Submission | Tagged best times, history, look back, progress, resolutions, rt, short, Thursday Question, worst times, year in review | 3 Responses

Discovering Your Submissive Nature

Discovering Your Submissive Nature

By lunaKM on December 20, 2008

Discovering your submissive nature isn’t always a sudden process. For many people it takes some soul searching to see that you may enjoy being a people-pleaser or that when someone asks you to do something you happily do it without a second thought. For others it takes some social reprogramming to allow your full nature [...]

Posted in Mindset, Submission | Tagged abuse, acceptance, activities, amazon.com, bottom, choice, cons, defining moment, discovery, discussion, Dom, dominant, event, experience, focus, fulfillment, happiness, help, inner peace, learned, learning, lifestyle, love, masochist, Miss Abernathy, natural, nurtured, online, organization, owned, personal safety, pride, progress, purpose, relationship, roles, rt, safe, Safety, Service, serving, short, slave, slave training, Study, submission, submissive, training, value, writing | 7 Responses

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