<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Heartbreak Nymphomania &#187; BDSM</title>
	<atom:link href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/category/bdsm/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:58:22 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Fantasies</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/25/fantasy-list/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/25/fantasy-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends & Lovers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genderfuck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strap on sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=4508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>A random list of scenarios I&#8217;ve been fantasizing about lately.</p> Eiffel-towering a guy with another guy. Specifically: me and L co-topping another guy. Most likely I&#8217;d be pegging him while he&#8217;d be blowing L. Being fucked by somebody else while on the phone with L, describing what&#8217;s going on &#38; letting him listen in. This is [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A random list of scenarios I&#8217;ve been fantasizing about lately.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Eiffel-towering a guy with another guy.</strong> Specifically: me and L co-topping another guy. Most likely I&#8217;d be pegging him while he&#8217;d be blowing L.</li>
<li><strong>Being fucked by somebody else while on the phone with L, describing what&#8217;s going on &amp; letting him listen in. </strong>This is all thanks to <a href="http://spam-monster.livejournal.com/3498.html?thread=9412010#t9412010" target="_blank">a Watchmen fanfic I read</a> where Dan fucks Laurie while she&#8217;s on the phone with Rorschach.</li>
<li><strong>Fisting someone. </strong><a href="http://spam-monster.livejournal.com/3498.html?thread=11442346#t11442346" target="_blank">Thanks to the Watchmen kinkmeme</a>, yet again<em>.</em></li>
<li><strong>Footfucking someone. </strong>After a conversation with M where I was talking about how much I wanted to feel what it is like to penetrate someone with a penis. I posited that maybe footfucking would be the closest I could get since I have very sensitive feet. Probably not true, but the idea continues to pique my interest.</li>
<li><strong>Shoe/boot worship. </strong>C&#8217;mon, we all know I already have<a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/12/29/shoe-slut/" target="_blank"> an excessive love of shoes</a> as it is.</li>
<li><strong>Bathing &amp; dressing someone else. </strong></li>
<li><strong>Helping a guy cross-dress, e.g. putting makeup on him or brushing/combing his hair.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Wearing a spandex head-mask while masturbating. </strong>Possibly pushing it up above my nose, and then taking it off altogether towards the end. I can&#8217;t really picture myself doing this with another person, both because I&#8217;d be too self-conscious, and because another person&#8217;s involvement isn&#8217;t really necessary. I think this idea sprang into my head due to my recent obsession with Deadpool, but I remember wearing a face-mask once and feeling oddly safe and comforted by having a large part of my face covered. And there&#8217;s this piquant sense of mystery about <a href="http://heartbreaknympho.tumblr.com/post/7999004454/i-just-realized-that-most-of-my-wank-material" target="_blank">someone engaging in a sexual act while having a part of their face covered</a>, or <a href="http://wewatchthewatchmen.tumblr.com/post/7682740472" target="_blank">having their face covered, period</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Getting fucked while dressed up in full dandy guydrag. </strong>For quite a while, I&#8217;ve been wanting to fuck with my gender presentation a little bit and purchase a tomboy/masculine wardrobe to go alongside my feminine one. Apparently I tend towards dressy masculine clothing just like I tend towards dressy feminine clothing, because I find myself wanting to dress in <a href="http://dapperdandy.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">suits and ties and waistcoasts and pointy-toed loafers</a>. Obviously, soon afterwards I began wondering about what it would be like to get fucked while dressed like this.<sup><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/25/fantasy-list/#footnote_0_4508" id="identifier_0_4508" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Coupled with the mask thing above, I&#039;m a hop, skip and a jump away from wanting to get fucked while dressed like Rorschach. And I... don&#039;t really want to mentally go there right now, because... what the fuck, self.">1</a></sup></li>
<li><strong>Doing vanilla things while I&#8217;m tied up. </strong>Specifically while in a chest harness, with my arms tied behind my back. I generally like having my upper body tied more than my lower body, probably because I can do more with my hands than with my legs, or because I value being able to manipulate things with my hands more than I value being able to move around from place to place with my legs. I had a little adventure with this at the last play party I went to, where M did some suspension work with me, then left me in the chest harness  for a bit. I managed to turn on one of the bathroom taps and take a drink of water; pick up my wine cup, which was on the floor; scale a set of stairs to the upper floor<sup><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/25/fantasy-list/#footnote_1_4508" id="identifier_1_4508" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="This was a terrible idea, and I advise against doing this. I could have seriously hurt myself if I had fallen over.">2</a></sup> where everyone else was socializing; and find someone to help me pour some wine into my cup and put the cup to my lips so I could have a drink. I like being able to see how much I can do on my own without the use of my hands, but I also really like being helped by others. Which brings me to&#8230;</li>
<li><strong>Someone messily feeding me or giving me a drink while I&#8217;m tied up. </strong>I have this very specific scenario of me in the chest harness, at a play party, and L feeding me a spoonful of a creamy-textured dessert, or giving me a drink of wine/champagne, and &#8220;accidentally&#8221; smearing some on my cheek or spilling some down my chin. I really dislike messy eating, and I frequently wipe my mouth and hands with my napkin when I eat. But with my hands tied, I&#8217;d obviously have to ask L to wipe my face for me. Meanwhile, I would be a little embarrassed at appearing &#8220;messy&#8221; in front of other people. And then I picture L picking up a napkin, smirking, and then setting the napkin on the table so that I&#8217;d have to walk over and awkwardly rub my face against it in order to get clean again.</li>
<li><strong>Getting fucked/fondled while asleep or getting fucked/fondled awake.</strong></li>
</ul>
<div>Reading this over&#8230; it&#8217;s funny to see how many of my fantasies stem from either fandoms I&#8217;m following, or from my neuroses.</div>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="footnote_0_4508" class="footnote">Coupled with the mask thing above, I&#8217;m a hop, skip and a jump away from wanting to get fucked while <em>dressed like Rorschach</em>. And I&#8230; don&#8217;t really want to mentally go there right now, because&#8230; what the <em>fuck</em>, self.</li>
<li id="footnote_1_4508" class="footnote">This was a <em>terrible </em>idea, and I advise against doing this. I could have seriously hurt myself if I had fallen over.</li>
</ol>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/25/fantasy-list/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Rope marks</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/07/rope-marks-hnt/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/07/rope-marks-hnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rope]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=4476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been doing quite a bit of rope stuff over the last few months. A new friend of mine has been giving me some rope pointers, and has also been practicing his tying and suspension skills on me.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ve decided that my skin gets marked up fairly easily. The marks may be a [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been doing quite a bit of rope stuff over the last few months. A new friend of mine has been giving me some rope pointers, and has also been practicing his tying and suspension skills on me.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ve decided that my skin gets marked up fairly easily. The marks may be a little troublesome &#8211; my mother saw them and instantly guessed what they were, though she feigned ignorance for a while &#8211; but I like them a lot. They remind me of the good feelings that come from being tied, so every time I catch a glimpse of them I get a little happier.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Being tied and being suspended are very different beasts indeed. Often, being tied sends me right into bottomspace. And if combined with a few other factors, e.g. a little roughness, it makes me <em>melt. </em>I modeled for a rope class that <a href="http://www.esinem.com/" target="_blank">Esinem</a> lead last week, and while it was not &#8220;orgasmic&#8221;, I experienced the floatiness that usually happens to me post-orgasm, where all I want to do is lay there, totally immobile; perhaps doze off for a while. And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s because my bottomspace often manifests as <a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/20/subspace/" target="_blank">feeling like an inanimate object</a>, but directly after the demos I very much desired to not-speak. Unfortunately, after the demos ended, everyone would try out what they had just seen, which meant people came and spoke to me, and I had to gather myself back together and respond to them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After the second demo, I took a break and lay down on one of the couches, eyes closed and body curled up tight.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Being suspended is a little similar &#8211; I begin to float away and lose the desire to speak<sup><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/07/rope-marks-hnt/#footnote_0_4476" id="identifier_0_4476" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="...Which can be bothersome when my tier is checking up on me">1</a></sup> &#8211; but it&#8217;s tempered by the stress that the suspension puts on my body. Getting suspended <em>hurts. </em>But because of this hurt an interesting thing happens &#8211; I know that I can&#8217;t escape what is happening to me<sup><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/07/rope-marks-hnt/#footnote_1_4476" id="identifier_1_4476" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Well, I mean physically nothing I can do.&nbsp;I could call off the scene, but I don&#039;t want to or need to since I know there&#039;s nothing damaging going on.">2</a></sup> so I end up finding a very narrow space in my mind where the hurt becomes&#8230; alright. It&#8217;s a very meditative, very powerful place; and being able to find that place &#8211; dig my fingers into it &#8211; when I am suspended, makes me think that I am a step closer to finding it during every day life as well.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="footnote_0_4476" class="footnote">&#8230;Which can be bothersome when my tier is checking up on me</li>
<li id="footnote_1_4476" class="footnote">Well, I mean <em>physically </em>nothing I can do. I could call off the scene, but I don&#8217;t <em>want </em>to or need to since I know there&#8217;s nothing damaging going on.</li>
</ol>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/07/07/rope-marks-hnt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to deal with annoying Fetlifers</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/06/27/how-to-deal-with-annoying-fetlifers/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/06/27/how-to-deal-with-annoying-fetlifers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[asshats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends & Lovers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=4456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Trigger warning: racist &#38; sexist slurs</p> <p>A chatlog? Haven&#8217;t done one of these in a while. Anyway, here is a chatlog between me and one of my (white, straight, cisgendered, male, top) friends.</p> <p>&#8212;</p> <p> Wilhelmina: i wish random fetlifers i don&#8217;t know would stop trying to come on to me via messages</p> <p>Wilhelmina: this [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Trigger warning: racist &amp; sexist slurs</em></p>
<p>A chatlog? Haven&#8217;t done one of these in a while. Anyway, here is a chatlog between me and one of my (white, straight, cisgendered, male, top) friends.</p>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p><em> Wilhelmina:</em> i wish random fetlifers i don&#8217;t know would stop trying to come on to me via messages</p>
<p><em>Wilhelmina:</em> this one older guy messaged me once asking if i was &#8220;oriental&#8221; and wondering if i was a switch &#8220;because i was a woman&#8221; (???)</p>
<p><em>Friend:</em> hahaha, oh man- and then I think of all the least appropriate responses ever</p>
<p><em>Friend:</em> but he probably wouldn&#8217;t have understood the sarcasm in the response I would have sent</p>
<p><em>Friend:</em> Dear Sir, Actually, I prefer the term &#8220;chink,&#8221; or if you really must generalize- &#8220;slanty-eyed whore.&#8221;  You are right of course on the matter of my being a switch because I am a woman- I would like to be dominant, but no matter how hard I try, I cannot overcome the fact that by being a member of the weaker sex, I can never truly hope to dominate a man.  The very idea of standing up to a man, much less a white man such as yourself, who is so much better than me… I shudder to think.  No, I can only hope that some day I might, with the proper guidance from a gentleman such as yourself &#8211; whose wisdom and skills no man of lesser experience and seniority could ever hope to rival - and towards the furthering of said gentleman&#8217;s pleasure, have the skills and confidence to assert my authority over other members of my same gender, assuming they were not of a superior race.</p>
<p><em>Wilhelmina:</em> hahahahahhahahaha</p>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p>Seriously though, I keep getting propositioned even though I&#8217;ve specified on my profile that I&#8217;m, um, not looking. I&#8217;m toying with the idea of simply responding to all unwanted messages with a link to something really gross.</p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/06/27/how-to-deal-with-annoying-fetlifers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fetish/Fashion</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/04/25/fetishfashion/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/04/25/fetishfashion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=4399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Picture-1.png"></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;">A &#8220;fetishistic&#8221; set I created using <a href="http://www.polyvore.com" target="_blank">Polyvore</a>.<br /> &#8220;Poetic Penumbra Dress&#8221; from Modcloth, &#8220;XIT&#8221; shoe from Jeffrey Campbell,<br /> &#38; random jewelry from everywhere.</p> <p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking about forms of dress and its relationship to fetishes and various BDSM practices. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of BDSM probably [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Picture-1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4400" title="Picture 1" src="http://heartbreaknympho.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Picture-1.png" alt="" width="553" height="469" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>A &#8220;fetishistic&#8221; set I created using <a href="http://www.polyvore.com" target="_blank">Polyvore</a>.<br />
<small>&#8220;Poetic Penumbra Dress&#8221; from Modcloth, &#8220;XIT&#8221; shoe from Jeffrey Campbell,<br />
&amp; random jewelry from everywhere.</small></em></p>
<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking about forms of dress and its relationship to fetishes and various BDSM practices. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of BDSM probably knows something about certain clothing items and their connotations w/r/t power and control within D/s: collars, boots, corsets, crazily high heels and ballet shoes with 6&#8243; spike heels. But forget about power for a minute. Maybe you&#8217;ve been to a kink party with a dress code. Maybe you know something about latex, vinyl, rubber, leather, or shoe fetishes. I&#8217;m talking primarily about that; about clothes both as aesthetic objects and as sexualized objects, and about clothes being part of a cultural norm within kink communities.</p>
<p>I think that clothes within a BDSM context can be both aesthetically pleasing, and sexually charged. Sometimes they can be one thing; sometimes they can be both. I don&#8217;t think they <em>have to be </em>both, though. I assume that if you&#8217;re a [material] fetishists, your pleasure is derived primarily from the material itself, and whether or not it&#8217;s artistically appealing or not is just a bonus. Is that true? Maybe it&#8217;s only true for some people, since everyone has different reasons for liking what they like. I don&#8217;t know very much about [material] fetishes, so if you know more than I do, I&#8217;d be more than happy to hear from you in the comments.</p>
<p>Anyway, my personal experience with clothes and BDSM goes like this: certain clothes have a power component to them, for me. Sometimes I want to wear certain things while I&#8217;m topping someone or when I&#8217;m at a party because they make me feel more confident and put me in a better headspace. I do <a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/12/29/shoe-slut/" target="_blank">sexualize shoes sometimes</a>, but for the most part, my interest in clothes is aesthetic. I wear things and am drawn to things that I find beautiful. I might think something like &#8220;this piece of clothing makes this person look hot/sexy/attractive/whatever&#8221;, but I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily look at the same piece of clothing <em>by itself</em> and think &#8220;this turns me on.&#8221;</p>
<p>That said, I&#8217;ve attended a couple of kinky parties where dress codes were either enforced/encouraged/incentivized (Suspension, in New York City, which I only went to once) or where people favored a particular sort of dress regardless of whether or not there was a dress code (private play party). I was happy about this because I was about to wear cute corset tops and leather skirts and high heels and elbow-length gloves without receiving weird looks. My personal style can tend towards the &#8220;gothic,&#8221; and I would argue that there&#8217;s quite a bit of an overlap between gothic fashion and typical dress within BDSM communities. There aren&#8217;t many contexts where I can wear gothic-like clothing without receiving negative attention, so I liked that I could wear those clothes at the kinky parties and not have it be considered anything out of the ordinary, and even be complimented on what I was wearing.</p>
<p>What I also find interesting is that certain types of clothing seem to be commonly perceived as &#8220;kinky clothing&#8221;; wearing said clothing marks you as a member of the BDSM community, e.g. I went to a munch recently, which was purely a social gathering, and even though there was no dress code, practically everyone there was wearing black. (I showed up in what I had been wearing all day: a pink floral sun dress and white tights.)</p>
<p>Clothing might even be an integral part of whatever activity you might be engaging in, e.g. whipping someone, tying someone up, whatever. In this sense the clothes take on a performative value; they are aiding you in <em>doing </em>BDSM.</p>
<p>While parties like this are valuable because they provide a space where BDSMers can dress the way they want without fearing any sort of negative repercussions, I wonder if it&#8217;s necessary to have a dress code in the first place:</p>
<blockquote><p>cost: $15 in proper attire, $30 sharp all black<br />
dress code: Fetish wear, creatively dressed, burner beautiful, uniforms</p></blockquote>
<p><em>- Taken from the description of one of New York City&#8217;s regular &#8220;Suspension&#8221; events. </em><a href="http://fetlife.com/events/50016" target="_blank"><em>Event listing found on Fetlife.</em></a></p>
<p>At this party, people who adhere to the dress code get in at a cheaper price, people who wear black get in at the regular price, and I assume people who are dressed casually don&#8217;t get in at all. I don&#8217;t really know what they mean by &#8220;creatively dressed&#8221;, but I guess that&#8217;s up to the organizers/people at the door to decide.</p>
<p>Again, I think it&#8217;s great that BDSMers have spaces where they can wear what they want to wear, but having a dress code could potentially alienate BDSMers who wish to dress casually, or who don&#8217;t have a clothing component to their kinks and can &#8220;do&#8221; BDSM <a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/06/on-the-popular-representation-of-dommes/" target="_blank">while wearing their regular clothes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I think one of the most disappointing things I saw when I went to my first leather (not BDSM, but &#8220;leather&#8221;) events was that everyone was in the same uniform. I guess that should be expected from a community that places a high emphasis on protocol, but it also negates or devalues a lot of other interesting expressions of dominance and submission (let alone switchiness).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot more fluidity of sexual expression in my friends from the west coast for some reason. Not sure why that is, but it&#8217;s been liberating to talk to them about switching roles, dressing up (or not) and mostly just doing whatever they want that feels right.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>- Excerpt from a message exchange with a friend on Fetlife.</em></p>
<p>I have at least one other acquaintance who I know tends to avoid parties like this because of the dress code (among other reasons, I think).</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with dressing up, but I wonder, do I not think kinky thoughts and do kinky things regardless of what I&#8217;m wearing; am I not still &#8220;kinky&#8221; when I take off the corset?</p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/04/25/fetishfashion/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Connecting BDSM and past abuse/harm</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/03/10/connecting-bdsm-and-past-abuseharm/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/03/10/connecting-bdsm-and-past-abuseharm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spanking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=4346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I read Salon.com fairly frequently, and have read many articles of theirs addressing feminist issues, sex politics and porn, so when I saw they&#8217;d posted <a href="http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/02/10/inside_world_of_spanking" target="_blank">an article about spanking</a>, my interest was definitely piqued. After reading the sub-headline alone, though, I already knew I&#8217;d have lots to say about this article:</p> <p>Fetishists open [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read Salon.com fairly frequently, and have read many articles of theirs addressing feminist issues, sex politics and porn, so when I saw they&#8217;d posted <a href="http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/02/10/inside_world_of_spanking" target="_blank">an article about spanking</a>, my interest was definitely piqued. After reading the sub-headline alone, though, I already knew I&#8217;d have lots to say about this article:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fetishists open up about their private thrill, where it came from &#8212; and how normal they really are.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Sigh.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">First off, the writer of the article is clearly vanilla, and not just vanilla but quite the wide-eyed n00b. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that, but I feel like every time I see BDSM depicted or talked about in the mainstream media (when it is at all), it&#8217;s usually through the eyes of someone who doesn&#8217;t do BDSM. I mean, why not get a spanko to write the article? Or, if that&#8217;s too hard considering people aren&#8217;t typically &#8220;out&#8221; about their fetishes at work, why not have a collection of interviews and have the spankos tell their story themselves?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Anyway, what bothered me the most about the article was this:</p>
<blockquote><p>Logic would dictate that the need is Freudian:<strong> t</strong><strong>hat spankos were spanked as children and eroticized that abuse</strong><em>.</em> But while many of the people I spoke to for this piece were spanked when they were little, just as many were not.</p></blockquote>
<p>[Emphasis mine.]</p>
<p>Okay, it&#8217;s only one paragraph of the entire article. But, again, the concept of BDSM being the direct result of some sort of emotional/physical abuse or scarring or general mental fucked-up-ness is something I feel like I run in to a lot. And the thing is, whether or not people who practice BDSM are also dealing with emotional issues is neither here or there. Sure, there are probably some people who do BDSM due to some sort of abuse in their past. There are also probably plenty of people who have issues and do BDSM without the two things having a connection. What bothers me is that I feel like people tend to jump from &#8220;BDSM&#8221; to &#8220;emotional issues&#8221; all too quickly when, for me, that isn&#8217;t at all a logical step to make. BDSM and actual abuse are two very, very different things, and asking someone if they like spanking because they were spanked as a child makes just as much sense as asking someone if they like spanking because they liked strawberry ice cream as a child.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_(film)" target="_blank">Secretary</a>. While Secretary <em>does </em>draw a difference between BDSM and (self-)harm, it still situates the two things very close to one another. Lee is shown getting into BDSM right after getting out of rehab for hurting herself, and overcomes her self-harm habit partly through her submission. Again, I don&#8217;t think that connection never exists in people, but I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s all that common as seems to be popularly believed.</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Am I completely off the mark here?</p>
<p><em>Edit [03/22/11]: </em>I was talking about this post with an acquaintance, who he had this to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s still slightly frustrating to see yet another person trying to pin the &#8217;cause&#8217; for BDSM/fetish behaviour on childhood trauma.</p></blockquote>
<p>To which I replied:</p>
<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s another reason why it bothers me, too. I mean, you don&#8217;t see anyone going around asking people &#8220;so, what is the cause of you liking penis-in-vagina, missionary sex?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Which I thought was important enough of a point to add on here.</p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/03/10/connecting-bdsm-and-past-abuseharm/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Do you want to tie me up? &#8230;Platonically?</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/02/11/do-you-want-to-tie-me-up-platonically/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/02/11/do-you-want-to-tie-me-up-platonically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=4240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>This probably isn&#8217;t very novel or mindblowing or even particularly interesting to read for many of you, yet I feel the need to articulate it in some way: I don&#8217;t always associate BDSM with sex.</p> <p>Like I said: not a new concept. However, considering my relative newness to BDSM, it is a concept that I&#8217;ve [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This probably isn&#8217;t very novel or mindblowing or even particularly interesting to read for many of you, yet I feel the need to articulate it in some way: I don&#8217;t always associate BDSM with sex.</p>
<p>Like I said: not a new concept. However, considering my relative newness to BDSM, it is a concept that I&#8217;ve had some difficulty managing. While I think that most seasoned BDSM-ers know that not everyone likes to connect the two things, for some reason I&#8217;ve always been worried that if I ask someone to tie me up at a play party, they might think that I&#8217;m also hitting on them. I mean, it would be a fair assumption to make. And, while I obviously enjoy incorporating BDSM into my sex life, getting tied up gives me many sensations and feelings that aren&#8217;t necessarily sexual: peace, security, vulnerability, joy. Sometimes I can appreciate rope bondage purely for its artistry; and sometimes learning how to tie from someone or trying out new ties is simply fascinating and fun.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not really afraid of the other person taking it too far, or assuming that because I want to do X, I might also want to do Y and Z. I&#8217;ve always felt very safe in the kinky events I have gone to; and because of the usual emphasis on consent and negotiation in most BDSM communities, I can trust the other person won&#8217;t try to do anything else before asking me first. I <em>am, </em>however, afraid of sending the message that, though I might not want to do anything sexual <em>now, </em>I might want to <em>later. </em>I&#8217;m afraid of misleading the other person and then having to &#8220;reject&#8221; them. Doing that is always really unpleasant.</p>
<p>I suppose one of the inherent problems with socializing at events where the primary thing everyone has in common revolves around sexuality, i.e. being into BDSM or being a queer woman, is that some people will think you&#8217;re looking for sex. Since I&#8217;ve been dating L, I have been trying to meet people both in the BDSM and queer women communities and it&#8217;s always a little awkward to explain that #1 I&#8217;m in a monogamous relationship and #2 my significant other isn&#8217;t here with me because we don&#8217;t live in the same place.<sup><a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/02/11/do-you-want-to-tie-me-up-platonically/#footnote_0_4240" id="identifier_0_4240" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="And then re: the queer women events, there&#039;s the added difficulty of having to explain that I still identify as queer and want to meet other queer women even though I&#039;m currently dating a man.">1</a></sup> It&#8217;s not like I think you need to be dating someone to justify looking to make friends or to participate in non-sexual BDSM, but it definitely has been more of an issue for me, personally, since dating L.</p>
<p>&#8230;There should be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code" target="_blank">hanky code</a> for this.
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="footnote_0_4240" class="footnote">And then re: the queer women events, there&#8217;s the added difficulty of having to explain that I still identify as queer and want to meet other queer women even though I&#8217;m currently dating a man.</li>
</ol>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2011/02/11/do-you-want-to-tie-me-up-platonically/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Cunt</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/09/cunt/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/09/cunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[domme/top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erotica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=3861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Not exactly up to par with the Vagina Monologues piece, but the word is just so perfect that I can&#8217;t not write an ode to it. Labels, in a sense, mean nothing, but they can also mean everything. Or anything.</p> <p> </p> <p>This also appears to be part of a slightly grandiose and ridiculous trend [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Not exactly up to par with the Vagina Monologues piece, but the word is just so perfect that I can&#8217;t </em>not<em> write an ode to it. Labels, in a sense, mean nothing, but they can also mean everything. Or anything.</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>This also appears to be part of a slightly grandiose and ridiculous trend with me; of putting the female on a pedestal. It&#8217;s not something I really believe in&#8230; except, of course, when he is under me, calling himself my fucktoy, saying that I can do as I want with him.</em></p>
<p>I call it my cunt. C-U-N-T, cunt. Vagina sounds like a hollow vessel, a medical term for a cavity that disappears speculums and latex-gloved hands. Pussy brings to mind glitter and colors and lace. Girly. Say it: pussy. Feel your tongue curl. It&#8217;s a delicate word; delicate and tasty like silk strands of pink cotton candy; like cunnilingus.</p>
<p>I call it my cunt when I&#8217;m fucking you with it, as opposed to getting fucked <em>in</em> it. I say cunt in every sense of the word: the <em>c</em> and <em>t</em> sounds spat from the mouths of hooligans in pubs, brawling, flinging the word at each other as a sharp-spined insult; whispered by lesbians under the sheets, mouths parting gently on the vowel; shrieked from the rooftops by women, shirtless, big-mouthed, and defiant.</p>
<p>It will draw you in, please you and make you disintegrate. It will clutch you, put you at my mercy. It will end you, and begin you.</p>
<p>I call it my cunt.</p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/09/cunt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Temple</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/05/temple/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/05/temple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bottom/object]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domme/top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erotica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=3827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m bracing my hand on your chest, using you for leverage in all reasonable respects. Now and again my fingers ghost towards your neck; my nails dig into the muscle that slopes down from your neck to your shoulder. I&#8217;m pulling you into me; quick and shallow and then lingeringly, so slow that you can [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m bracing my hand on your chest, using you for leverage in all reasonable respects. Now and again my fingers ghost towards your neck; my nails dig into the muscle that slopes down from your neck to your shoulder. I&#8217;m pulling you into me; quick and shallow and then lingeringly, so slow that you can feel all of me. As I stare openly at you, it occurs to me that your cock only makes sense when it&#8217;s inside me. When you enter me I feel as if my cunt is a temple; a sacred place of transformative power; a place that can change your genitalia from something absurd and nonsensical into something&#8230; focused. Directed. Pleasurable. Dangling between your legs, your cock is soft and out of place and silly and only causes you irritation. Does it not? But trapped between my legs, it becomes instrumental to your gasps, to the convulsions that sweep through your body.</p>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p>You tell me that once you pass a certain threshold of your arousal, you cease to think; you fuck me with abandon, thinking nothing of me and only of your own pleasure.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the way it should be.</p>
<p>I want you to pin me down, grab my hips, spread my legs and sink yourself into me. I want you to hold my shoulders and pull me hard and jarringly back against you. I want to say, &#8220;this is your ass, your cunt, so take it, take them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fuck me until you&#8217;ve had your fill.</p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/08/05/temple/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Devour</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/27/devour/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/27/devour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[domme/top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erotica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=3809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Your body is so small and soft and smooth and milky. Like a sweet, cool dessert melting in the summer heat. I want to swallow you whole; lap and bite you all over; lick the remains off my lips, from the corner of my mouth, and slide every bit of you down my gullet.</p> <p>No [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your body is so small and soft and smooth and milky. Like a sweet, cool dessert melting in the summer heat. I want to swallow you whole; lap and bite you all over; lick the remains off my lips, from the corner of my mouth, and slide every bit of you down my gullet.</p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/27/devour/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Jitters</title>
		<link>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/22/jitters/</link>
		<comments>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/22/jitters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilhelmina Wang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BDSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domme/top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[versatile/fluid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://heartbreaknympho.com/?p=3789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">L is coming to visit tomorrow, and I&#8217;m a little scared.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;m also immensely excited and happy, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t be scared as well, right?</p> <p>L &#38; I have explored so many things together &#8211; in every respect, but I&#8217;m focusing on sexuality, here &#8211; and the more [...]
No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">L is coming to visit tomorrow, and I&#8217;m a little scared.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;m also immensely excited and happy, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t be scared as well, right?</p>
<p>L &amp; I have explored so many things together &#8211; in every respect, but I&#8217;m focusing on sexuality, here &#8211; and the more we explore, the more I feel as if a certain momentum is building. Also, it seems the further we go, the more likely a D/s aspect is going to come into play. L is in no way or form a submissive, and neither am I with him, not all the time. And in terms of our personalities and our relationship, there isn&#8217;t a clear person who is &#8220;in charge.&#8221; I quite like it that way. Nevertheless, sooner or later, in the bedroom, I&#8217;m going to end up bossing him around.</p>
<p>Upon pondering his visit, I find possibilities &amp; imaginings flitting through my mind, hence a sneaking insistence that I can&#8217;t <em>not</em> try them now that I know that I <em>can</em>. I mean, presumably. It&#8217;s much easier to simply fantasize about things without attempting to enact them. Without becoming a reality, they&#8217;re infinitely filmreel pristine perfect. Also, being the one who wants to do nasty things to the other, well, not to state the obvious, but you kind of have to be the one to come up with the plan. I have a good idea of what he likes; of what he wants me to do with him. But even so, I&#8217;m preoccupied with silly little grievances like: I don&#8217;t have a cane, where can I get a cheap cane? And will that particular one work? I want to bend him over the end of the bed and tie his ankles to the bed&#8217;s feet, but my bed is lame and doesn&#8217;t have feet, it only has wheels located closer to the center, how will I get around that? And, most importantly: what if he ends up not liking what I&#8217;m doing? What if I fuck up?</p>
<p>Being a switch (and yes I&#8217;ve finally decided to claim switch) can be really irritating. I know that he wants me to hurt him, that he wants me to control him&#8230; That he&#8217;s taken audio files of himself jacking off because he wants me to listen to him &amp; know what thinking about me does to him. I know all this. But I still haven&#8217;t quite managed to tap into that raw energy that I know is there; to tap into the desire to see him marked up and prone and open and willing to do whatever (within reason) I tell him to. My conflicting desire to have <em>him </em>do those things to <em>me</em> sometimes interferes. See: <a href="http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/20/subspace/" target="_blank">my last post</a>. He&#8217;s not the kind of person to lay there and take whatever I dish out; he reacts, he grabs me, makes me hurt. And instead of fighting, like half of me wants to, I typically give in to what the other half wants, which is&#8230; to give in.</p>
<p>The thought &#8220;maybe I&#8217;m not <em>really</em> dominant&#8221; enters my mind, even though I know that that&#8217;s just silly. There is no <em>right</em> way to do something&#8230; as much as I know that, I&#8217;m intuitively inclined to think that there is, and that I&#8217;m not fitting it.</p>
<p>Even though I&#8217;m worrying about this, I know at the end of everything, I&#8217;ll simply listen to me and to him and to what we want; and that even if my plans don&#8217;t work out, we&#8217;ll have copious amounts of rough sex anyway and it will all be fine and dandy.</p>
<p><em>Edit: As always, after writing about something that preoccupied me, I find that I&#8217;m not thinking about it as much and not even sure why I was so worried about it in the first place. Ah, the therapeutic powers of writing.</em></p>
<p><em>Edit again: After the initial psychological nail-biting&#8230; exercising my creativity on this is quite&#8230; satisfying and amusing. I was envisioning possible things I could do with my room, and with items I could easily get from pharmacies and hardware stores and laying out situations in my head. Weighing what action would cause what effect. It was like composing an outfit or a writing piece, only better. </em></p>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://yarpp.org'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://heartbreaknympho.com/2010/07/22/jitters/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

