Ask a Neuroscientist: Pain Physiology, Explained to a Bottom

by Hermes Solenzol Imagine that you are being spanked… Stop getting so excited! This is supposed to be a scientific explanation! As I was saying, imagine that you are being spanked, and you are feeling that familiar stinging, warm pain in your behind. In reality, you don’t feel the pain in your bottom. You feel…

BDSM is not science, it’s an art!

by Hermes Solenzol Borrowing from the name of a popular website, I fucking love science! I fell in love with science when I was a pre-teen and have studied it ever since. These days I make a living doing scientific research on the physiology of pain, which is kind of convenient for a sadomasochist. I…

What’s the Big Deal About Spanking Butts?

by Gene K Admit it or not, we all would like to find some evidence of the existence of a caring deity, a God force in our world. For me, this evidence came in two forms. The first was made manifest to me in my early twenties. Someone cut into an apple. Only this time…

Keeping It Clean – Hygiene and Safety for Toys and Sharps

By Fledermaus Each person must understand that these are relative degrees of cleanliness and safety as they apply to various kinds of contaminants. As with all BDSM play, both Top and bottom must understand the levels of risk and accept that risk for the activities in which they engage. Sterile Something that is sterile is…

Illustrated Guide – Impact Sting Levels

We’ve reblogged this illustration from Boyfriend and ExBoyfriend BDSM Gallery. He’s got great taste in NSFW pics too. This is a regular series of illustrated guides. You can find the others here. impact play: Striking with various objects, including the hand (spanking), riding crops, floggers and whips and canes(oh, my!) – FetLife BDSM Glossary We…

Physical and Mental Techniques for Processing Pain

We spend a lot of time talking about pain and pleasure in the BDSM community. It’s a very individual thing, and we all have our own preferred levels, and our different responses to pain during a session. Athletes often have their own way of processing challenges to sustain themselves till the final line, and in…

CBT – Cock and Ball Torture Part 2

By Fledermaus This is a continuation of the late Tony DeBlase’s article on Cock and Ball Torture posted here. URETHRAL INVASION Most heterosexual men consider the possibility of something inserted up their ass as the greatest invasion of personal privacy, possibly even more than the thought of a knife penetrating skin and muscle. But that…

CBT – Cock and Ball Torture Part 1

By Fledermaus (aka Tony DeBlase) This is Part 1 of a two-part article on CBT by the late Tony DeBlase. Part 2 includes piercing, urethral invasion, electrotorture and scrotal inflation. You can find it HERE. “As a sadist, I can say without equivocation, there is nothing in the world I find more beautiful than the…

Pleasure and Pain: An Ode to Spankings

by Madame Beatrice When I think of spankings, I think of two things: transference and release. A spanking isn’t simply the sum of swats on a submissive’s beautifully curved ass; it’s a transfer of energy from one mind’s body into the flesh of another mind and body. Each time contact is made between an open…

Clothespins – Simple and Effective BDSM Torture Toys

by Fledermaus (aka Tony DeBlase) Sometimes it is the simplest BDSM torture toys that can be the most effective. The Sandmutopia Supply Company “research and development lab” is filled with a great variety of equipment, including literally hundreds of different kinds of clamps. But high among my list of favorites are still plain old ordinary…