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#32   + (572) - [X]

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

#121   + (481) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, pain

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

#117   + (222) - [X]

Tagged: woman, proverb

A woman's "No" is said with one mouth only. -- Proverb

#103   + (126) - [X]

Tagged: proverb, flesh

The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb

#125   + (123) - [X]

Tagged: love, buttocks, penis

Yes, this was love, the ridiculous bounding of the buttocks and the wilding of the poor, insignificant moist little penis. -- D.H. Lawrence

#67   + (120) - [X]

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

#210   + (118) - [X]

Tagged: woman, instinct, courage

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous  demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. -- Anais Nin

#183   + (117) - [X]

Tagged: love, ownership, soul, yours

All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. -- Robert Browning

#188   + (114) - [X]

Tagged: responsibility, control, trust, worth

To have someone give you control of their bodies and minds,
to be entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them,
to have someone willing to suffer for you,
to forsake pride and dignity to please you...
what other gift in this world can possibility equate to that?
And more importantly, what makes you worthy to receive it? -- Anonymous

#59   + (111) - [X]

Tagged: sensation, pain

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade

#147   + (111) - [X]

Tagged: leather, spirituality

I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella

#51   + (110) - [X]

Tagged: reality, pain

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field

#94   + (107) - [X]

Tagged: cherry trees

I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees. -- Pablo Neruda

#77   + (103) - [X]

Tagged: life

Think of three things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. -- Benjamin Franklin

#139   + (103) - [X]

Tagged: woman, pedestal

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. -- Betty Grable

#80   + (102) - [X]

Tagged: love, service, life, calling

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. -- Oprah Winfrey

#146   + (100) - [X]

Tagged: d/s, paradox

D/s is filled with similar paradox's. Such as Pain/pleasure. Enslavement/freedom. A circular and connected balance to exist between apparent opposites. -- Master Nik

#42   + (99) - [X]

Tagged: good, bad

There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so! -- William Shakespeare

#72   + (97) - [X]

Tagged: sensual, life

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself and so to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. -- James Baldwin

#150   + (97) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, degradatioin, delight

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way. -- Marquis De Sade

#118   + (96) - [X]

Tagged: oral sex, intimacy

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover

#65   + (95) - [X]

Tagged: submission, power, mercy

I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#137   + (95) - [X]

Tagged: life, journey, destiny

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. -- Dag Hammarskjold

#119   + (94) - [X]

Tagged: orgasm

I was in bed one night when my boyfriend Ernie said, "How come you never tell me when you're having an orgasm?" I said to him, "Ernie, you're never around. -- Bette Midler

#158   + (91) - [X]

Tagged: master, needs, bottom, slave

Bottoms have appetites that are their own, whereas slaves' needs become the same as those of the Master. -- Guy Baldwin

#92   + (91) - [X]

Tagged: love, life

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#154   + (91) - [X]

Tagged: love, chains, slave

If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins

#88   + (90) - [X]

Tagged: desire, woman, man, want

When I am dead, you'll find it hard, says he
To ever find another like me.
What makes you think, as I suppose you do,
I'll ever want another man like you? -- Eugene T. Ware

#129   + (90) - [X]

Tagged: sex, art

Narcissism is the art of looking in the mirror and saying 'Damn I'd like to have sex with me.' -- Anonymous

#190   + (90) - [X]

Tagged: sex, life, attractive, philosophy, value

Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself..... The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut. -- Ayn Rand

#78   + (89) - [X]

Tagged: speech, service, heart, compassion

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha

#161   + (89) - [X]

Tagged: strength, confidence, time

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -- Anna Freud

#11   + (85) - [X]

Tagged: discipline, life

Without discipline, there's no life at all. -- Katharine Hepburn

#38   + (83) - [X]

Tagged: torture, pleasure

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

#53   + (80) - [X]

Tagged: sex, art, erotic, philosophical

BSDM is an erotic art which does not require conventional sex acts to explore and practice. That's my philosophical story, and I'm stickin' to it. -- Elizabeth

#152   + (80) - [X]

Tagged: sex, obsession, fact

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich

#160   + (80) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, love

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe

#28   + (79) - [X]

Tagged: sex, erotic, life, force

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. -- Audre Lorde

#199   + (79) - [X]

Tagged: calling, slave, vocation

Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri

#192   + (76) - [X]

Tagged: service, unseen

The noblest service comes from nameless hands, And the best servant does his work unseen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#98   + (73) - [X]

Tagged: dream, mysterious

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her. -- Henri de Montherlant

#61   + (71) - [X]

Tagged: sensation, pain

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron

#69   + (71) - [X]

Tagged: discipline, suffer, pain

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. -- Jim Rohn

#31   + (69) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality, sacrament

Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk

#170   + (69) - [X]

Tagged: surrender

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. -- Thomas Merton

#33   + (67) - [X]

Tagged: bedroom, horses

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#75   + (66) - [X]

Tagged: fear

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- Frank Herbert

#144   + (66) - [X]

Tagged: ritual, fear, pain, lust

There are rituals of lust and joy and pain and fear. These, forced to extremes, meld in the mind, and in that melding they may make or dissolve our egos, bodies, or spirits. -- Raven Greywalker (Lilith)

#149   + (66) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, surrender, violence

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. -- Marquis De Sade

#35   + (64) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen

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