Reading Time: 15 minutes Rick Umbaugh has been practicing S/m since 1968. He joined the organized scene in 1976 when he became a member of The Eulenspeigle Society (TES) where he was mentored by the late Master Jack. He has been an actor and playwright longer than that, but became a professional in 1972 when he made his first movie. He has appeared in such varied fare as “Taxi Driver,” “Cotton Club,” the new “Thomas Crowne Affair” and the TV show, “Law and Order.”

Reading Time: 12 minutes Dr. John Warren has been in the Scene for over 30 years. He is an educator and lecturer in the Scene and the author of five books: The Loving Dominant, Torquemada Killer, Safe Sane and Consensual, Murder at Roissy and The Brat. He is the founder of Boston Dungeon Society and the manager of Diversified Services, which offers a variety of BDSM oriented toys, books and other products.

Reading Time: 5 minutes The last natural blonde will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A recent study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202. Researchers predict the last truly natural blonde will be born in Finland – the country with the highest proportion of blondes.

Reading Time: 4 minutes OUCH ! a brief introduction to spanking Spanking is a hugely popular fetish. Its legions of fans include those who enjoy the undoubted D/s aspects of it as well as those who simply like the …

Reading Time: 11 minutes A Cynics Guide to Online Chat ( how to do it and survive ). A non-too serious primer for the bewildered on the pleasures and pitfalls of online chat
[ed. this article goes way back to around 1997, so the technology is very archaic, but it’s funny enough that we keep it live for posterity!)

Reading Time: 3 minutes It may be hard to come out and admit to your friends that you like spanking or bondage now, but what was it like 100 years ago? The ideas of our victorian forebears about sex seem a little eccentric .. not to say barking mad at times. Amazingly enough, the extracts on this page are all genuine exchanges between worried Victorians and their ‘enlightened doctors…

Reading Time: 5 minutes 3pm: I wake bright and early and greet the new day with enthusiasm. I stretch lazily, made almost seasick by the extravagently rippling undulations of my impressive muscles, and slip into my comfortable leather mask and trousers which belle has already buffed to a fine sheen with her long auburn hair. I then take my usual morning areobic exercise by spanking belle briskly for at least 20 minutes…

Reading Time: 3 minutes B & belle Sell Out ( time to go commercial and hustle a buck ) STOP PRESS NEWS We could say we’re just trying to provide a public service. We could say that we admire …

Reading Time: 4 minutes Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a funky young pop star called Britney was in the middle of a World Tour to promote her new record. It sure was hard work! Wearing all those new clothes every day and having to be so gosh-darned sweet and all. Sometimes in the middle of all the madness little Britney just needed to go off by herself and find a peaceful place where she could daydream about her ex-boyfriend, Justing Timberhead, and practice being cute away from the glare of publicity

Reading Time: 3 minutes Beanies in Bondage  ( oh the horror … the horror ) Long after the BDSM Cafe shuts its doors and the last revellers have staggered their tipsy way home, B & belle are still awake. …

Reading Time: 9 minutes Masochism is the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from one’s own pain or humiliation, and its named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1839-95) the Austrian writer who described it so well in his novels. “Venus in Furs” is probably his best known work, a romantic tale which has at its heart a sado/masochistic relationship. From this work the term ‘masochism’ was coined, and Leopold received the ultimate accolade of having a whole perversion named after him.

Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘The Story of O’, written by Pauline Reage (a pen-name), is a milestone of modern SM literature and a true BDSM icon. Graham Greene described it as ‘A rare thing, a pornographic book well written and without a trace of obscenity’. The novel (originally published in French as Histoire d’O) tells the story of a young Parisian fashion photographer referred to only as O and her introduction to the world of sado-masochism at the hands of her lover Rene, the enigmatic ‘Sir Stephen’.

Reading Time: 2 minutes BDSM Icon – The Marquis de Sade The fun-loving dude who gave his name to the word ‘Sadist’ which is, as we all know, a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, …

Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in the 1950’s she started out as just another cute body hustling a living at the seedy end of the ‘adult entertainment’ industry but by the middle of that decade she was probably the most famous pin-up in the USA and also notorious for her fetish images. Then, at the height of her fame, she suddenly vanished!

Reading Time: 7 minutes The woman is a dream. Her body is perfect, with the lips, eyes, and breasts of a goddess. She stands before and looks at me. I am bound in the shape of an X, arms stretched wide over my head, ankles fastened to the floor. I am naked and ashamed. She is too good for me, far above my class. Why is she here? Does she desire me or is she just tormenting me? I do not know. I almost hate her because she is so beautiful, so far away from me. I want to whip her, punish her for her beauty, but I am the one bound. She approaches.

Reading Time: 5 minutes I am naked and bound spread-eagle across a table. A wooden block under my belly lifts my chest upward and a larger one forces my chin up. I am gagged and blindfolded. All I see is blackness. My ears are plugged and everything I hear is muffled, but I can hear people approaching. A large silk table cloth is covering me and the table. The people approach.

Reading Time: 3 minutes I am blindfolded and gagged and led into a room. My hands are bound above my head, my ankles tied together and fastened to the floor. I am only wearing a pair of shorts and these are unceremoniously pulled to my ankles. My naked cock dangles out in front of me, exposed.

Reading Time: 15 minutes by sfmaster You can write to the author here – sfmaster@att.net Candy Has A New BDSM Hobby Dave Roberts fingered the dozen roses on the car seat next to him when traffic came to a stop …

Reading Time: 11 minutes by sfmaster You can write to the author here – sfmaster@att.net Sharon Does An Outcall It had been in the cavernous file room that Sharon Michaels had made her great discovery.She had gone into the large …

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