| 8 Mar 10 Saturday's first O&P Open |
| We had the
first O&P Open on Saturday for people interested in D/s-M/s-O&P relationships, and it turned out to be a great afternoon and evening. In all, 21 people were there for the round-table discussion part, and 15 for the dinner afterwards. [more...]
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| 23 Feb 10 More on the O&P Open meeting on 6th March |
Today I updated the thread about the O&P meeting in Manchester on the 6th of March, with a photograph to help find the venue and some directions. Belasarius has now also started a thread with suggestions for discussion topics for the open round table part of the afternoon. Finally mia has begun a thread about names for this type of meeting: not just a munch but not as formal sounding as "meeting"  |
| 14 Feb 10 O&P Meeting, Sat 6 March 2010, Manchester |
| There will be an informal meeting for people interested in O&P, D/s or M/s relationships on Saturday 6th March 2010 in central Manchester. The meeting will be from 1pm to 5pm, with a round-table discussion about suggested topics starting at 2pm. [more...]
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| 7 Feb 10 O&P meet up in the UK? |
| I've posted this to the O&P group on Informed Consent: [more...]
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| 5 Feb 10 IE and O&P |
| I started writing about Internal Enslavement ("IE") in 1999, first calling it "Internal Slave Development" and then adopting the more accurate "Internal Enslavement" name in August of 2000. Now that most of my writing efforts are going into O&P (Ownership & Possession), this is a good time to clarify how IE fits into this new framework. [more...]
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| 4 Feb 10 Carpetting your world? |
| I'm reading Raven and Joshua's questions and answers book, and there's a great line in a section about control: "I can't carpet the world, but I've put down a lot of throw rugs." [more...]
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| 26 Jan 10 Transferability thread on IC |
| New thread on the O&P group on IC: "I think it's taken for granted that the best things about dominants and owners tend to be transferable from one relationship to another: skills, experience, self-awareness and self-acceptance of one's desires and right to receive service etc. However, what about the submissives' side of things?" |
| 25 Jan 10 Training thread on IC |
| TheFalconer started a training thread on the O&P group on IC. It's generated some good replies already |
| 17 Jan 10 O&P group on IC |
| The O&P group on Informed Consent has gone past 100 subscribers and 28 topics. It's now become the busiest of the three O&P forums ... and remember you don't need to be resident in the UK to use IC |
| 5 Jan 10 "The Curious Human Phenomenon" by Peter Masters |
| A couple of years ago I
reviewed
Peter Masters' previous title, "The Control Book", and
"The
Curious Human Phenomenon" is very much in the same
vein. It doesn't try to teach you BDSM techniques, but
instead tries to explain some of the reasons behind elements
of BDSM. Masters summarises this by saying BDSM has an
"abundance of 'how'" but a "scarcity of 'why'". [more...]
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