Kinky Desires – Should You Tell Your Therapist?

Any therapist worth their framed degree will be trying to take a holistic approach to your mental well-being. They’ll be interested in exploring your relationship with the world, and in particular with the people in your world. No-one ever wants to freak out their therapist, but keeping silent about your BDSM lifestyle: – robs the…

10 Tips For Unattached Submissives

by sub cee Being an unattached submissive can be a very difficult thing to live with. First it takes a lot of deep internal searching to discover one’s submissive desires in the first place, a huge amount of courage to come to terms with it and it’s a massive heartache to not have anyone to…

Masochism – Can It Be Cured?

CAN MASOCHISM BE CURED? This question carries a subtle pre-conceived notion of masochism – that masochism is a sickness or disease of some sort that needs to be cured. It’s the type of question that is raised with any socially deviant act, along the lines of “can homosexuality be cured” (still being debated, even in…

The Difference Between Masochism and Self-Harm

THE MOTIVATION BEHIND MASOCHISM AND SELF-HARM We have briefly talked separately about masochism and self-harm, but where is the line drawn, and are they interchangeable? The core distinction between them is the intention, or motivation of the person looking for the pain. Masochists derive meaning from pain, be it sexual pleasure, spiritual satisfaction, physical thrill…

Different Types of Masochism – One Size Does Not Fit All

There are many different types and levels of masochism, and so often you’ll hear a conversation in the BDSM community where the two people are struggling to communicate because they are using the word in two different ways. As a term, diverse people with diverse intentions fall into the grouping. If you do a quick…

What Is Social Anxiety?

WHAT IS SOCIAL ANXIETY? Wikipedia defines it like this: Social anxiety is a discomfort or a fear when a person is in a social interaction that involves a concern of being judged or evaluated by others. It is typically characterised by an intense fear of what others are thinking about them (specifically fear of embarrassment,…

Answering Some Questions about Internal Enslavement

i identity as someone who desires Internal Enslavement. It’s not what my current relationship is, but it is something that i have dreamt about since young. Following up on my previous post explaining what Internal Enslavement is, I received some questions about it and so here are my personal responses. HOW DOES INTERNAL ENSLAVEMENT DIFFER…

What is Internal Enslavement?

Two terms that nearly always cause confusion in conversation are “mental BDSM” and “internal enslavement”. They sound like they might be similar concepts, but “mental BDSM” usually refers to psychological (rather than physical) control, while “internal enslavement” refers to what you’d imagine the dictionary definition of “slave” is. WHAT IS INTERNAL ENSLAVEMENT? Internal Enslavement is…

Is Censoring Pornography a Form of Annihilation?

The topic of pornography is divisive. But it’s also not clearly black and white. i’d like to share a few thoughts on “pornography”, coming from the perspective of someone who lives in the ultra-conservative Asian country of Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is no sex education, not even simple education on the importance of using condoms…