The purpose of SM and the scene community is the responsible quest for personal bliss, fulfillment and growth. Involvement in SM can make you stronger, wiser, happier, more fulfilled, more enlivened, more generous and more healed, if you do it the right way. The activities you engage in, and what sort of bliss fulfillment and growth you and your partners find in them are entirely up to you.
SM should be practiced with responsible and ethical intent. "Safe, Sane and Consensual" is prudent advice, but really describes 'how' to conduct SM responsibly. It is a craft that both demands and rewards excellence with a powerful ecstatic physical connection to something greater than oneself
SM is music using the human body as both instrument and audience. It is a dance in which one partner leads another through a ritual of sensation, movement, shared beauty and physical skill. It is method acting in which you act out roles far more real than the face you show the outside world. SM is the art of creating bliss from the base palette of humiliation, physical pain, suffering, and deprivation. It's the seeming paradoxes of people seeking freedom through submission, pleasure through pain, serenity, humility and vision, through the naked exercise of power, illumination and spiritual apotheosis through physical engagement. It takes the physical vocabulary of aggression and cruelty and reshapes it into a shared activity that creates awareness, closeness, joy, wonder, and contentment, while inflicting no lasting or intentional harm. The practical realities of living the SM life encourages self knowledge, the pursuit of individual happiness, the sacrosanct importance of others, and respect for human diversity and tolerance for human peculiarity
SM is inexhaustible in its range of expression including many forms of fetish and play that spans anal, bondage, branding, cock & ball torture (C.B.T.), electricity (static and direct current), fisting, feminization, flogging, fire play, sexual penetration, spanking, tickling, role-play, needle play, orgasm control, humiliation, cock worship, rope art bondage, hot wax, breast and nipple torture, tactile play and countless others.
SM definitely is an activity that is not for everyone and not all persons in the BDSM lifestyle practice it or even completely understand it. No one knows for sure what draws an individual to practice such extremes. Though SM isn't always sexual the level of pleasure that one experiences during a SM scene is unmatched and usually inspires orgasmic release. For me personally the addiction is a mix of several aspects of SM: self awareness on a spiritual level, primal pleasure, mental and physical surrender of self. I wish I could better describe my personal experiences in SM especially for those reading this that have never experienced it before, if you have not had the experience and are still reading this post I salute you, your open mind and knowledge for understanding something that many find savage and insane behavior. I hope I have enlightened you and peeked your curiosity. If you would like to gain more understanding of the wonderful world of S&M there are many excellent resources throughout the web.
Here are a couple that I recommend...
March 11, 2005
The Wonderful World of S&M
