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		<title>Bondage and Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really not all that into bondage. For some reason, that feels a bit hard for me to admit openly to the BDSM community. It seems like it&#8217;s almost expected that people be into it &#8212; I mean hell, it&#8217;s the first letter in BDSM! I&#8217;ve heard others say that they like bondage because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/08/09/bondage-and-me/</link>
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		<title>BDSM vs. Abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a recent munch, the discussion topic was &#8220;Abuse or BDSM; where do you draw the line?&#8221; The discussion was wrought with a lot of charged emotions &#8212; a lot of people in the lifestyle seem to have had some bad experiences early on with people masquerading as dominants and sadists, who were really just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/06/30/bdsm-vs-abuse/</link>
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		<title>Successfully Breaking Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I also posted this at another blog that I write for, but I think it&#8217;s pretty widely applicable so I&#8217;m posting it here, too.  Of course, BDSM relationships tend to have their own break-up complications, but this is mostly about how to deal with the emotional aspects of a breakup, not the social aspects. Breakups are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/05/25/successfully-breaking-up/</link>
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		<title>I </title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get to use a singletail very often. There&#8217;s really no great place for it in my house, and recently my girl and I haven&#8217;t been going out to the local dungeon very much. However, a few weekends ago we went to Frolicon, and they had a whip area set up there. Gods, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/04/22/i/</link>
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		<title>Age and Mastery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Age provides more opportunities to become mature; it does not magically grant it. Being young does not mean that one is immature; it means that one is more likely to be immature. Conversely, neither does being older mean that one is mature. There are plenty of 40-somethings out there with the mentality of teenagers. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/04/20/age-and-mastery/</link>
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		<title>Pet peeve of the day: self-capitalization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not talking about capitalizing one&#8217;s name. That&#8217;s just proper grammar. But when someone refers to themselves as in, &#8220;It is My opinion that&#8230;&#8221; it immediately makes me think that they&#8217;re overcompensating. Same feeling I get when people introduce themselves as &#8220;Master so-and-so.&#8221; Or when listening to a conversation where doms are having a proverbial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/04/07/pet-peeve-of-the-day-self-capitalization/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Drink and Kink!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a lot of the more serious dungeons, there is no alcohol allowed. The secondary issue with that is that would require a liquor license in most places too, but nonetheless, most serious lifestylers agree that drinking and BDSM don&#8217;t go together. I&#8217;d thought that most, in fact, were teetotalers when it came to drinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/03/31/dont-drink-and-kink/</link>
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		<title>Self-Esteem Through Dominance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have known some tops that seem to draw self-esteem through their dominance, and though that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing, it can be a warning sign. I believe that real self-esteem is a thing that comes from within. It&#8217;s great to feel that charge, to feel on top of the world when you&#8217;re topping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/03/14/self-esteem-through-dominance-2/</link>
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		<title>Old Friends, New Kinks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jerzeem, whom I&#8217;ve known since I was 10, called me a little over week ago, and said, &#8220;Sammael, if I&#8217;ve ever said or even thought anything bad of your lifestyle choice, I apologize profusely.&#8221; Amused, I let him go on, and it came out that he had encountered his first submissive girl &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/03/03/old-friends-new-kinks/</link>
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		<title>Carotid Chokes and Breath Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned breath play a bit in my last post; specifically, that Jay Wiseman is against all forms of breath play. And as a preface to this, don&#8217;t try carotid chokes until you&#8217;ve been taught by someone who knows what they&#8217;re doing, and have practiced it with someone on the other end that knows what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bdsmweblog.com/2010/02/18/carotid-chokes-and-breath-play/</link>
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