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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...]

2 Jan 10   O&P Wiki

The Wiki on TSR acquired many good articles about D/s and M/s subjects in 2007 and 2008, but had only a handful of updates during 2009. It's now been rebranded as the O&P Wiki to give it more focus, and it appears on the O&P website itself now too. In the last week, I've updated a great many of the articles to make it more consistent, and include more O&P topics and links to O&P blog posts.

1 Jan 10   Those in between stages

One of the things that's attractive about O&P relationships is the clarity about where you stand and who's in charge. I've started a thread on the O&P group on IC asking about dealing with the transitions involved in moving from meeting as equals all the way to the dominant being in possession of the submissive. A lot of these stages are questions of consent: fundamentally, the sub consenting to allow the dom to do XYZ whenever they want, from then on. [more...]

11 Dec 09   Training - not just learning their preferences?

The word "training" is used in different ways in O&P relationships (or M/s, D/s etc): I think there's a divide between "training someone up", as an apprentice carpenter might be trained up and then qualify; and ongoing training, as sportsmen talk about when they've been ill and not able to "keep up with their training". [more...]

7 Dec 09   O&P Manifesto, v2

Today I uploaded a revised (and hopefully final!) version of the O&P Manifesto, taking into account the feedback I've had from the threads I've been starting each week covering the ten keywords in the manifesto. [more...]

4 Dec 09   Ownership in O&P

Today I've posted threads about Ownership on the O&P groups on on Informed Consent, on TSR, and on Fetlife. [more...]

28 Nov 09   Threads on Service in O&P

I've started threads on "Service in O&P" in the O&P groups on Informed Consent, on TSR, and on Fetlife. [more...]

17 Nov 09   Responsibility in O&P

I've now posted last week's (delayed) threads about Responsibility on the O&P groups on Informed Consent, on The Slave Register, and on Fetlife. [more...]

15 Nov 09   IE and Dependence

that_girl_emme started an interesting discussion about dependency on the IE group on Fetlife.

5 Nov 09   O&P threads on Possession

This week I've started threads about Possession itself on the O&P groups on Informed Consent, on The Slave Register, and on Fetlife. [more...]

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