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This week in kink: January 11, 2020

January 10, 2021 By Desdemona 2 Comments

Feeling lonely and isolated during the pandemic?

Want to meet more people?

Then, check out this awesome list of the best hook-up sites from Reader!

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Many think that being a kinkster is linked to trauma. However, a recent scientific study has disbanded this ideology.

Click below to read more from Big Think!

https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/bdsm-psychology-trauma

BDSM has become more normalized in recent years (key word being “more.” In a lot of areas it’s still not widely accepted, and is still viewed as deviant/taboo).

With this being said, Feminism in India touches on the normalization of kink, feminism, dominance/submission, history, and how this all relates to the expression of sexuality, gender, and the current political climate.

Click below to find out more!

We Need To Talk About The Normalisation Of BDSM

Have some kinky news to share? Tell us about any upcoming BDSM events, new products, dungeon openings / closings, kink in mainstream media, and anything else you think kinky folks might be interested to hear about. Send your tips through to kinkweekly@gmail.com, and it might just end up on next week’s “This Week in Kink.”

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The Importance Of Aftercare

January 3, 2021 By PirateStan 3 Comments

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When negotiating a scene, an aspect which can often be forgotten (especially with new people) is aftercare. It can be entirely too easy to overlook, as it can often seem as such a natural cap, good or bad. Why would you possibly need to discuss it ahead of time; it’ll just happen, right?

But no, it might not. Also there’s more than one way to aftercare, and not everybody’s going to agree on what’s right or wrong. And there’re some for whom aftercare isn’t even necessary.

Aftercare, for the record, is the physical/emotional cartaking that occurs after a scene, usually for the sub, but also for the Dom. It can vary in intimacy and intensity depending on the relationship between the two, the intensity of the scene, or simply the overall environment.

But why is aftercare necessary? Because a BDSM scene tends to be an intense, superchaged, and traumatic experience, especially for the sub. Sure, it’s usually cathartic as well, but it can still put someone through the wringer; sort of how running a few miles can make you feel great, but you’ll still need that period of cooldown (and maybe a shower) before you can feel relatively back to normal.

Again, different people, different scenes, can require different sorts of aftercare. But a good rule of thumb involves a few simple checkpoints:

– Check everyone over for physical injuries that need to be tended to immediately. There may be cuts that need bandaging, bruises that require icing, or burns that require salves. While I’ve never personally had a scene this physically intense, YMMV. 

– Support them (as they may be shaky), walking them to an area where you can both sit together, snuggling as needed. They’ll probably need a blanket to wrap themselves up with. Be certain to have water handy.

– Sit quietly until they come back to the land of the living. Even if they’ve been happily ensconced in subspace they’ll need varying degrees of time to return to reality.

– Once they’re lucid, engage them in some light conversation. Perhaps discuss the scene about what you both liked and disliked. But don’t expect any heavy conversation at this point.

– Finally, get both of yourselves dressed and clean up your playspace (if you haven’t had someone to do this for you already). Now’s a good time to hit the buffet or the fridge, as some people are absolutely ravenous after a good scene. And always be sure that you both hydrate!

– Later you may want to chat further and in-depth regarding your scene together. I’ve found these sorts of conversations to be extremely helpful.

– The next day, call or send a text to see how they’re doing. Even if you’re not trying to set up a long-term relationship, this is the sort of followup you really should engage in, so tell them ahead of time and see that they’re alright with it. Many subs aren’t aware of the sort of subdrop they’ll face the day after a scene. Different sorts of foods can help alleviate this (chocolate is often a good one).

Of course, there are many variants on all this. The time required can be anywhere from five to 30 minutes (or more). Some people require little to no aftercare (although the latter is very rare in my experience). Sometimes there’s a third party involved who’ll take on some or all of the aftercare duties (such as a Dom or Master of their own). And depending on the intimacy of the couple, some parts may be omitted, or become much more intense.

Regardless of how you do it, aftercare is an extremely important part of any scene, and should always be a critical part of your negotiations. 


PirateStan has been involved in his local BDSM community since 2007, after having had a lifelong inclination towards it. He currently lives a contented life in Southeastern Virginia with his girl, zeirah, while working by day for a Major Metropolitan Publication. 

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This week in kink: December 14, 2020

December 12, 2020 By Desdemona 2 Comments

So many folks have had their worlds turned upside down due to the pandemic. This has left many feeling like nothing is in their control and hopeless.

Because of this, Tracey Anne Duncan writes about how BDSM can help us gain back a sense of control during these trying times.

Click below to read more!

https://www.mic.com/p/could-bdsm-be-the-antidote-to-our-pandemic-fueled-loss-of-control-47460733

Kink and BDSM, for many, are so much more than something sexy to do!

There have been a lot of mental and emotional benefits experienced by those that are in the lifestyle.

BDSM can help reduce anxiety, chronic pain, improve mood, and so much more!

Click below to read more about this from Refinery29!


More often than not, submission and feminism are not thought to go hand in hand.

We here at KinkWeekly feel it’s important to talk about these topics and explore all sides of how they might go together and might oppose each other.

Everything is about the grey after all!

Click below to explore these intriguing topics further with Feminism in India!

Kinky Promise: Does My Sexual Submission Make Me A Bad Feminist?

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Video: Why Do I Like BDSM?

December 12, 2020 By DesiresLaidBare 2 Comments

New to scene?

Curious why you’re drawn to the BDSM lifestyle?

Want to hear other kinksters talk about their experiences?

Then, don’t miss this week’s video by Desires Laid Bare!

Why Do I Like BDSM

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My Kink Journey

December 5, 2020 By SafferMaster 5 Comments

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I first got exposed to what I refer to as “my darkness” when I was 16. I was a gymnast on tour in West  Berlin, a real liberal city in those days. Sex shops on every corner it seemed. I purchased a hard-core  porn magazine with straight up kink that included bondage. It also had long essays in the back. I read  and re-read one particular story that aroused me in ways I did not fully understand. It was a story about  a mother-daughter team of geisha girls who serviced their client together. The story described him  torturing the daughter’s breasts by pinching her nipples so hard she screamed while the mother tongue  fucked his ass and stroked his cock. The climax was him fucking the mother’s ass while she ate her  daughter’s pussy, and when he got close, she called out to him to “Hurry up and cum and then piss in  my ass before you lose your hard on.” I stroked my cock to that story thousands of times! I never  understood at the time that my fantasies around that story were really my first look into my own  darkness.  

At 17, I had a much more direct experience that caused me to experience direct arousal. I played footsie  with a girl, K, who sat in front of me in class. She would often masturbate in class while sitting on my  foot. One day she created a disturbance and was brought to the front of the class for punishment. She  got caned. She took her strokes without a word, and then, returning to her desk, she sat on my foot and  had a massive vocal orgasm that the class misunderstood as a cry of anguish. This awakened something  in me, although I’m clear that the glimpse into the darkness, was only a crack in my vanilla shell.  

At age 26 I married the preacher’s kid, and she was pure vanilla in bed. I found myself in my late 20’s  spending time reading the “Back-Page” personals of the local free papers where women and men were  very direct in their seeking posts. This was evident by them inviting hard core kink into their lives. I was  so intrigued and also quite envious. I talked to several of these women and found the conversations  seamless. I was naturally dominant and they soaked up my fantasies. Eventually my growing desire for  kink had me connect with a sub who got turned on by my fantasy about handcuffing her to the park  bench at the local university and using her repeatedly there. She invited me to meet her and to take her  home to give her a hard spanking with a wooden paddle. It was my first experience as a Dom. I saw her a  couple of times.  

Meanwhile, in my vanilla life, when we were packing to move our house, my wife found the toys I had  purchased in a bag that I had placed at the back of a file drawer in the garage. She confronted me right  there in the garage, and so I shared with her what I had done and why. She kink-shamed me and insisted  that I “Get rid of the toys.” I contacted the sub that I had played with and gave her a departing hug as I  handed her the toys I had only ever used in a scene with her. She was tearful at the moment, and  although I never saw her again, we kept in touch and I learned that she had connected with a Dom with  whom she was happy. Even though my wife kink-shamed me, she would ask me to tell her about the  play scenes I had engaged in with other women during our own foreplay. That is not to say that she  approved of me playing with other women. She also made it clear that she wasn’t interested in  exploring her sexuality in kink beyond fantasy. Kink was for other people.  

Over time, my darkness pulled me to seek out a variety of kinky experiences on a slightly more frequent  basis which had the natural impact of my wife and I drifting further and further apart as we became  estranged. Our divorce was the natural result of the space growing between us day-by-day. 

After the marriage was over, I had made the choice to explore the darkness. I was fortunate to  experience a truly kinky existence where I got to do whatever I wanted, with whom I wanted, as much  as I wanted, and as often as I wanted. I got really related to the darkness within, but I found the lack of  intimacy the key driving force in my ongoing search.  

That search led eventually to creating a 24/7 TPE dynamic in relationship with Lady Petra, with whom I  have a sex forward, deeply kinky and truly loving relationship.  

That’s the preamble to my thoughts about the role of kink in forming truly loving relationships.  

Here is the premise. As human beings, sex is one of the most powerful driving motivators of behavior.  It’s also true that sex is one of the primary sources of space between a couple. To put it another way,  conflict about sex causes couples to build distrust which gradually becomes contempt for one another.  Consider that it’s very common to have fantasies about other partners while engaging in sex with your  partner. It was true for me and it was certainly true for my wife as well. When we had sex, I would  always fantasize about my ideal kink scenarios which more often than not were scenes like the one I  read about all those years, or my high school experience watching K get caned, and (this is the important  part) I would never tell my wife about my fantasies. So as time passed, there was more and more space  between us. The less we talked about our deeply held sexual desires, the more inclined I was to seek  satisfaction outside of our marriage. On a gradient, more and more space developed between us. From  10,000 feet up, it was obvious, although in retrospect, the space was not even slightly visible to me at  the moment.  

I know now that as humans we live inside of stories. Stories about sexuality are deeply held self-beliefs.  We create self-talk like: “I am not …. enough” or “I can’t have …” etc. At any given moment, and because  we live inside of a story hidden from our view, we don’t realize that the story is driving the context of  our life. Even as the impacts mount, the reality is hidden from our view. Gaining access to this  information, that those self-beliefs give us context, was key for me to be able to create something new  like the dynamic that I have created with Lady Petra.  

What I have with her, is what we call a created relationship that is sourced in kink. Which means that in  the context of our sexuality we have regular and authentic conversations about what we like, what we  desire, and what we don’t like or want to experience. There is nothing wrong and she can ask or request  anything as can I. She creates me as her Dom, and I create her as my sub. This means that there is quite  literally no space between us that arises from unspoken sexual desire. We also have a commitment to  not allow any space to occur. Unspoken withholds are out of integrity. The result is that we are able to  ongoingly create unimpeded connection. The fact that we allow no space between us and that our  relatedness and connection continues to expand and grow inside of an integrous relationship means  that we get infinitely closer and closer together and it feels like we are one.  

We describe palpable “magnetism” between us. She experiences my energy as much as any other part  of my being. The energy between us pulls us closer together. We experience it as “animal magnetism.”  The sex is ridiculously hot. Its naughty, its kinky, its passionate, its daily.  

So to summarize:  

Having an authentic relationship sourced in kink with both partners in full unconstrained communication  provides an opening for a deeper connection which is self-fulfilling as the couple gets closer and closer 

till the magnetism itself takes over and the couple is drawn together with an unbreakable electro chemical bond.  

In that as kinksters we explore our darkest fantasies in reality, a significant cause of human  inauthenticity is resolved, making the fullness of relationship available.  

The closeness that kink creates, especially in the context of an aligned D/s couple, allows ever deeper  sharing to occur. So closeness creates closeness. It’s the source of our ability to connect energetically.  

Consider that the difference between almost boiling water and actually boiling water creates a change in  state of the water such that instead of just being able to make tea, you can actually move a train. That  same idea is true in relationship. If you are all in with the integrity that kink creates and allows for, the  dynamic can also experience a change in state. One that solidifies a relationship with superglue.  

Kink, practiced correctly, that is to say with integrity and authenticity in the dynamic, causes relationship.  

I wrote this prose recently:  

I have had the experiences of a lifetime  

I have endured the long painful existence of a mostly sexless vanilla marriage  

I have explored being a “fuck-any-slut” Dom  

I have explored polyamory to a degree  

I have been a Bull to hotwives  

I have discovered my true self expression as a Dom and as a Sadist  

I have collared a submissive masochist  

I am living in a 24/7 TPE  

What is so is that I am more fulfilled sexually, emotionally and in relationship that I have ever been in all  my life  

Kink was my access to happiness  

In truth, gratitude is the access to happiness  

Through kink, I found a partner with whom I am truly aligned  

With her I am experiencing love and happiness for the first time in my life  

I am experiencing a state of bliss  

Kink was my access to happiness  

I am grateful for my kinky existence


Saffermaster and Lady Petra offer Kink Relationship Coaching, and produce the podcast Kinky Cocktail  Hour which is available in most directories. You can find them on their Patreon Lady Petra Playground or  reach then via email SafferMaster@gmail.com or LadyPetraPlayground@gmail.com. SafferMaster and  Lady Petra are teaching a webinar on DatingKinky.com titled “What’s in Your Kinky Toolbox” which can  be found on the Dating Kinky webinar page.

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Video: Beginner Rules For BDSM + Advice For Getting Started

October 24, 2020 By Evie Lupine 2 Comments

New to the scene?

Not sure how to start your kink journey?

Need some help establishing boundaries?

Then, tune in for this informative video by the fabulous Evie Lupine!

Don’t be afraid to dive in today! Safe, sane, consensual for the win!

Beginner Rules For BDSM + Advice For Getting Started

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