O&P weblog http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/all/ The IC RSS Gadget webmaster@informedconsent.co.uk 360 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:40:10 GMT Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:40:10 GMT http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180348/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180348/ Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:40:10 GMT I've now posted details of next month's O&P Open in Manchester, following the same format as the previous events in London and Manchester. The 3rd also coincides with the quarterly Dystopia night in Manchester. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180226/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180226/ Mon, 03 May 2010 21:54:49 GMT This weekend's O&P Open meeting and dinner went very well again :) http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180196/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180196/ Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:32:08 GMT I've updated the thread on IC about the O&P Open on the 1st of May in Manchester, including directions to the venue and more about the format. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180163/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180163/ Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:33:51 GMT I've now posted details of this event on the IC O&P group, following a similar format to the previous Manchester and London meetings. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180143/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180143/ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:20:51 GMT The 2nd O&P Open in London on the 10th went very well and there was a good range of discussion prompted by several topics suggested beforehand, including limits vs limitations, submissives voting in elections, and the meaning of collars. I hope to organise another O&P Open in the near future, probably back in Manchester. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180101/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180101/ Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:04:24 GMT I've posted an update about next Saturday's meeting for people interested in O&P-D/s-M/s. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180005/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/180005/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:08:17 GMT I've posted the venue details and confirmed date (Sat 10th April) of the O&P Open in central London next month. The event will have the same format as the Open in Manchester in March: some social time from 1pm, then an informal discussion for people interested in O&P-D/s-M/s relationships at about 2pm, followed by an (optional) dinner in a nearby restaurant at about 6pm. The discussion venue is within easy walking distance of Great Portland St and Warren St tube stations, and not far from Euston and King Cross mainline railway stations. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179990/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179990/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:37:27 GMT I've started a thread about having another O&P Open in early April, this time in London. The O&P Open in Manchester last weekend worked out very well! http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179985/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179985/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:05:00 GMT 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.... http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179918/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179918/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:28:15 GMT 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" :) http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179874/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179874/ Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:00:58 GMT 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.... http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179849/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179849/ Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:12:30 GMT I've posted this to the O&P group on Informed Consent:... http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179843/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179843/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:33:04 GMT 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.... http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179839/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179839/ Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:12:42 GMT 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."... http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179802/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179802/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:31:00 GMT 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?" http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179799/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179799/ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:35:03 GMT TheFalconer started a training thread on the O&P group on IC. It's generated some good replies already :) http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179770/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179770/ Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:04:21 GMT 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 :) http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179720/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179720/ Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:27:32 GMT 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'".... http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179696/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179696/ Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:18:32 GMT 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. http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179694/ http://www.ownership-possession.com/weblog/179694/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:26:34 GMT 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....