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Grooming as BDSM and D/s
Most of BDSM and kink skills focus on techniques for different types of play (e.g., flogging, spanking). However, the world of BDSM is...
Rebecca Blanton
Nov 3, 20227 min read
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Should Submissives Express THEIR Needs?
When you are submissive or enjoy being submissive with a partner, navigating your own desires can be tricky. As submissives, we sometime...
Rebecca Blanton
Mar 15, 20223 min read
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One Question Every Submissive Needs to Answer
When I am on my knees, looking up at my Dom, waiting on his command, I am in complete bliss. There is something wonderful and liberating...
Rebecca Blanton
Feb 21, 20222 min read
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EARN IT Act: Using the pretense of child sexual exploitation to invade privacy
Ah, politicians are once again engaging in a favorite past-time: fanning fears of massive child predator rings as a pretense to get rid...
Rebecca Blanton
Feb 9, 20226 min read
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What Can You Do If You Disagree with Your Dominant?
One of the most difficult issues of being a submissive or other s-type is having a disagreement with your dominant. Power exchange...
Rebecca Blanton
Sep 20, 20213 min read
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BDSM Beyond the Bedroom
If you are new-ish to kink you may be under the impression that power exchange and kink are specifically for sex and intimate play time....
Rebecca Blanton
Aug 18, 20214 min read
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Do This BEFORE a Partner Cheats
Listen on Spotify Finding out your partner has cheated on you is often devastating. Regardless of your relationship style (monogamous,...
Rebecca Blanton
May 25, 20215 min read
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What Is a Submissive’s Responsibility?
I love it when I come across people writing about submission in a deep and thoughtful way! If you have not discovered The Pleasure Coach,...
Rebecca Blanton
Apr 28, 202112 min read
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New Year! Better, Kinkier YOU!
I am so excited to announce I will be working with Wicked Grounds to host “30 Days of Kinky Self-Discovery” in January 2021. So many...
Rebecca Blanton
Dec 3, 20203 min read
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Election 2020 and Erotic Power
With the 2020 election just days from now, I have spent an enormous amount of time thinking about power: structural power, institutional...
Rebecca Blanton
Oct 31, 20205 min read
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Why Collars Are Important to BDSM
Guest Post By: Spices of Lust Your BDSM experience is personal to you — and your partners. It’s meant to be whatever you make of it, and...
Rebecca Blanton
Jun 18, 20193 min read
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Flip It and Reverse It: Protocols for Dominants
I adore having protocols in a relationship. Those rules and rituals power exchange couples create to serve their relationship provide a...
Rebecca Blanton
May 29, 20196 min read
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5 Skills for Fighting Fair in Kinky Relationships
Healthy couples fight. Most healthy couples don’t fight often, but disagreements do arise, emotions heighten and we fight. Its actually a...
Rebecca Blanton
Jun 9, 20186 min read
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Fetlife Protest Isn’t Just a “Feminist Thing”
For those of you unfamiliar with Fetlife, it is a social media site for kinky folks (kinky defined very broadly). Currently, there is a...
Rebecca Blanton
Apr 25, 20188 min read
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Pronoun Wars, Part II
The other night I was at a poetry open mic billed as a “safe space” for the LGBTQAII community. As per the norm in such spaces, the host...
Rebecca Blanton
Jul 5, 20174 min read
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Why We Should Care About Sex Tapes
This morning Trump released a barrage of tweets speculating that former beauty queen Machado had made a sex tape. Of course, as with most...
Rebecca Blanton
Sep 30, 20165 min read
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Is Submission a Gift?
“Submission is a gift.” I hear that phrase constantly in the kink community. I hear submissives say it. I hear Dom(me)s say it. Switches...
Rebecca Blanton
Mar 1, 20165 min read
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Body Confident? Hell no!
I have had a lot of conversations with people lately about body image and work. My public image and my work is largely based around sex...
Rebecca Blanton
Jan 10, 20163 min read
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30th Anniversary
This year marks 30 years of activism for me. In 1986 I started my first volunteer gig with and HIV/AIDS outreach and support organization...
Rebecca Blanton
Jan 4, 20165 min read
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Is Sex Always Part of BDSM?
I have had a bunch of conversations lately about incorporating sex into BDSM play. Some people have to have both in a session, others do...
Rebecca Blanton
Dec 10, 20155 min read
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