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The Iron Gate is a BDSM Resource and Knowledge Database for those interested or curious about BDSM, learning about themselves, or seasoned lifestylers who want to learn more. The Gate began as a work of love by luna, and continues to grow and expand. This is a one stop resource for all things BDSM.

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In Essays

What NOT to say to your Dominant... by Author Unknown
Filed in: humor

Pushing limits does not mean making Master so angry the vein above his right eye throbs. "Quit it!" "Ow, damnit!" "I'm hiding that toy when you go to work tomorrow" and cursing a blue streak are not safe words. "Oh my god, where did you get those, they are gorgeous[...]

Qualities of A Successful Dominant by Polly Peachum
Filed in: dominance

"The Problems Started After I Moved In" When talking to submissive women about their lives and relationships, the most frequent cause of sorrow and difficulty that gets mentioned is the transition from a non-live-in D&S relationship to a full-time live-in situation. Relationships that[...]

Blind Faith by Mistress Steel
Filed in: submission

BLIND: To conceal or to put something forward for the purpose of misleading. Subterfuge. One who acts to the point of insensibility. FAITH: To trust, give allegiance or loyalty to another. Fidelity to one's promises. Or, a firm belief in something for which there is no proof. It can also mean to of[...]

A Master's Creed by Author Unknown
Filed in: inspirational

For people who wonder about a D/s relationship and often feel it is "degrading" to a woman, this should clear it up. True D/s involves much love, respect, and trust. Here is what one Master wrote and I agreed with it completely. To me it epitomizes everything that should be in every D/s re[...]

In Fiction

The Position by Barister
Filed in: punishment, bondage, orgasm, F/f, butt pllug, vibrators, strapping

She was extremely uncomfortable. She had been positioned like this for almost an hour now, as she always was before her lover, Ginny, first sexually tormented her and then punished her. She didn't remember when Ginny first began positioning her like this for her punishments, it must have been short[...]

Debut Series: Part 1 by selkie
Filed in: fellatio, exhibitionism, group sex, outdoor sex

S. was ready on time as per his instructions. Impatient for his beloved presence, she paced the house, pausing in front of a full length mirror to check her appearance. Critically she assessed what she saw. She was tallish for a woman, around 5'8". Her thick, sherry coloured curls were swept[...]

The Spanking by selkie
Filed in: spanking, orgasm, oral sex, female ejactulation

When D. first looked at her consideringly, she wasn’t sure what he had in that complicated head of his …she just knew that it involved something that would most likely hurt.  Grinning, he studied her with an air that left her breathless. She was wearing her favourite bedtime tee-s[...]

A Fantasy of Mine by Greg's little one
Filed in: sex, fantasy, dreams, oral sex, outdoors

i have always been somewhat of an outdoors kind of person. i enjoy nature and the beauty of it. The smells, the mass amount of colors, and the beautiful songs nature plays for us. It has always been a dream of mine, and i'm sure many others to, to own a cabin in the woods away from everything.  [...]

In Poetry

A Slave's Prayer by Greg's little one
Filed in: submission, prayer, rhyme

Please let me forever be open to learn and understand. Please let my service be absolute, To accept [...]

A Night To Remember by luna
Filed in: sex, love, vanilla, erotic, sensual

Dressed in the slinky, black silk nightgown She stands at the bedside looking down on her lover wi[...]

Spark by luna
Filed in: desire, spark, growth

A spark has been ignited in me The flame unquenchable I need someone to feed it Make it burn brig[...]

Popular Quotes

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Tagged: penis, proverb

A standing prick has no conscience. -- English Proverb

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Tagged: intimacy, vulnerable

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability...nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff -- Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt

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Tagged: torture, pleasure

Thou art to me a delicious torment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tagged: life, heart, surrender, pain

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. -- Nicholas Evans

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Tagged: pleasure, pain

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser