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		<title>What motivates 24/7 submission?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone asked on Twitter about what motivates 24/7 subs. The replies went like this: Safety; Freedom from control, responsibility; Order, instruction, framework, accountability; Being useful to someone else, greater purpose; Intimacy. For me? Firstly, this is not a choice. This is something I find myself doing automatically. And when someone else wants it too, it &#8230; <a href="/what-motivates-24-7-submission/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What motivates 24/7 submission?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My Emotional Masochism Isn&#8217;t Therapy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, guest blogger Cava Supernova asked, provocatively, &#8220;Is racism sexy?&#8221; She told us the story of an early kink encounter in which an awesome black man begged her to call him her nigger and her sex slave boy. This out-of-the-blue request floored poor Cava and she asked us to help her figure it out. &#8230; <a href="/emotional-masochism-is-not-therapy/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">My Emotional Masochism Isn&#8217;t Therapy</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Definitions, Dammit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Argh. I&#8217;ve had it. It&#8217;s time for some definitions. Power = Ability to get what we want from others. Wants: Most obvious ≠ most important. Consent = The outcome of internal politics among our wants. That&#8217;s how dominant bottoms and masochistic doms can exist. Our wants may not line up tidily with the stereotypes, but &#8230; <a href="/definitions-dammit/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Definitions, Dammit</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Love Letter of O</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month the BDSM Classics Reading Group read The Story of O by Pauline Réage. Faced with the prospect of rereading it yet again, I groaned and went for background reading instead. And wow. Now I want to be Pauline Réage! One day a girl in love said to the man she loved: &#8220;I too &#8230; <a href="/the-love-letter-of-o/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Love Letter of O</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Protocols. I&#160;Want.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love protocols. Do you want me to call you sir? Yes sir! (And apologies for the non-inclusive language, ma&#8217;am!) Do you want me on the floor? Prod me till I get the position right, please? Do you want me to heel you, or forget the word &#8216;but&#8217;, or owe every morsel of food to &#8230; <a href="/protocols-i-want/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Protocols. I&#160;Want.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rape Play Is Not Rape: Guest Post by Dr.&#160;Slut</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Slut]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2014 03:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The inimitable Dr. Slut returns! Today she tells us more about one of her favourite things: not-rape. Trigger warning: rape role-play, sexual trauma, swords. The idea that a guy might beg his tormentor to stop whipping and flogging him even though he was, in some complicated way enjoying it, is so intuitively built into BDSM &#8230; <a href="/rape-play-is-not-rape/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Rape Play Is Not Rape: Guest Post by Dr.&#160;Slut</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not Censored. Thank&#160;You Everyone!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 07:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Irregular updates from now on. And yes, that&#8217;s my calligraphy. You guys are amazing! Support came from everywhere &#8211; BDSM blogging friends, Blogging 201 classmates, WordPress staff and HostGator staff. I got scared after my last post, because Ferns alerted me to one of her old posts on the Domme Chronicles. It seems that last year &#8230; <a href="/not-censored-thank-you-everyone/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Not Censored. Thank&#160;You Everyone!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Censored and Welcomed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have moved my site to HostGator due to the problems described below. Please excuse the mess on this new site. Someone is trying to get me removed from WordPress.com! Shall I lie and say that I am all agog to find out if they succeed in getting me censored? To be honest, it seems very unlikely. &#8230; <a href="/censored-and-welcomed/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Censored and Welcomed</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ariel Castro: The Psychopath in the Mirror?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reality Check]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Help me, I&#8217;m Amanda Berry &#8230; I&#8217;ve been kidnapped, and I&#8217;ve been missing for ten years.&#8221; We all remember that 911 call last May. And then those terrible words in the news. Sex slavery. Chains, leashes. Torture. The stuff of our fantasies, now a spotlighted horrorhouse. It was so hard to hear about it. It &#8230; <a href="/ariel-castro-the-unheeded-call/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ariel Castro: The Psychopath in the Mirror?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Masochism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As you may remember, I have no shame about being female and therefore in a position of weakness. Nor do I feel particularly bad about being submissive and therefore wanting some such predicaments. But my masochism? Let&#8217;s not talk about it. No. Let&#8217;s talk about it. Masochism has a bad name. To the observer &#8211; &#8230; <a href="/self-esteem-for-bottoms/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Let&#8217;s Talk About Masochism</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coming Out: The Sequel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friends and I were not brought up to discuss sex, and so kink does not come up in conversation. But this has changed a little since I wrote my coming-out letter, because I have now come out to five more friends and one more brother (which is enough for now). As I expected, everyone was supportive. But &#8230; <a href="/coming-out-sequel/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Coming Out: The Sequel</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Coming-Out Letter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xiao Yingtai]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BDSM: bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism. What does it feel like to need that kind of thing? One of my friends said, &#8220;It&#8217;s about fear, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Well, no, it&#8217;s not. I&#8217;m afraid of contact lenses and rollercoasters and they don&#8217;t do a thing for me. And I have been genuinely &#8230; <a href="/coming-out-letter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Coming-Out Letter</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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