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In some ancient societies slaves had very limited legal rights. In others substantial portions of the slave population was raised for government service. Being the property of the rule was thought to make them loyal to his wishes. Some of those had very comfortable lives and political power.

But the majority of the world’s legal slaves were just beasts of the field. With no more rights and less value than a horse. The slave increased their owners’ wealth by labor. They weren’t psychosexual playthings.

Today voluntary slaves are known to sign contracts disclaiming their civil rights. Contracts that reject their legal invalidity. Pointless, expect for the thrill of the act. You can’t give away your civil rights.

One of the most common and dispiriting assertions in vanilla articles on BDSM is that the bottom is really the boss. Silliness. Safewords and stop words aren’t abrogation of power. They demonstrate the top’s risk aware responsibility. None of us really wants them. We want to visit the hospital or the morgue even less.

Tops who refuse safewords I can’t respect. They aren’t worth discussing.

Consensual slaves are exactly that. Their slavery ends the instant consent is withdrawn. They are stupefied by their craving for the absolute.

How would this human property react were master or mistress to take a handsaw and cut off hands and feet,

Would they consent to being put to death?

Boys! Men! You too can turn male dominance into a profitable business model!

Own or run a successful business… but you are a sub?

I am a professional, clean cut Dom, very capable, with a taste for power and control.

Bring me on your staff, at a reasonable salary, give me the title of my choice, and I will work at home.

A nature so giving is almost unbearable.

Dept. of standard patter:

What I require is ultimate respect and obedience. Anything less than that will NOT be tolerated - EVER.

Only 1 will serve me. Terms are for life. You will be exclusively mine to experiment, and do with as I wish.

This would be clever if he were likely to find someone so foolish. EVER!

I used to have a site called Queer Pop Culture.

I have a site called Queer Pop Culture. As of today.

Quite some time back I moved the entries to a different site. Why I thought having a site using arcane PoMo jargon like proairetic escapes me.

I put QPC on a website parking service and forgot about it for a time.

The original QPC was a mix of notes about what I was reading, watching and listening to and amusing queer stuff found on the web. It grew out of an old blog called Diversions that was part of my original site, Edifying Spectacle (maybe I’ll eventually revive that one).

This morning I told Movable Type to give me a new blog and …

The new QPC will be mostly found stuff I think. It is a pity I’ve never really been the archiving type. I’ve discovered and discarded a huge amount of material over the years. I’d have plenty to populate a few sites had I saved all of that miscellaneous matter.

People ask how I find the time to maintain all my sites. Well, sisters and brothers, I don’t. Take my pop culture sites (please - literally - if you have lots of money to waste and are foolish: buy them).

Queer Pop Culture led to Gay Pop Culture. A few months ago I was startled to discover that I’d added nothing to the latter in a couple of years. So I’m making a point of doing so. GPC is a strong domain name. Someone better than I could make something of it.

An then there is - blush - Sexy Pop Culture. Last year I decided to let it die. But the traffic kept up. Nothing nearly like it was when I inadvertently became one of the top results for Kevin Federline (!). Still, I’m updating it again.

Ah, it was last year that I discovered that Fetish Pop Culture was available. (I only register domains that I think make good site names.) The demon voice whispered in my ear, “Go to Godaddy!” And I did.

By merely keeping the sites alive and periodically adding fresh material there is a chance I could sell the pop culture sites one day. Merely letting a site age invests it with a little value. Or I may have a flash of inspiration and do something cunning and worthwhile with the damned things.

Not having as much time for the fetish blogosphere as I once did I don’t run across as many bogus Femdom blogs as I once did.

Tweo that I’ve recently read have been almost archetypal instances of phony female domination: submissive men writing as dominant woman. And focus the trinity of their species: cuckoldry, sissyfication and extreme orgasm denial.

Because the author as created a virtual private universe the fake blogs have an internal consistency that can almost fool you.

One detail often gives the game away: panties.

Women who enjoy lingerie write of their attire with aestheticism and lyricism. The men I’m thinking of write mechanically.

For them panties aren’t something lovely. They are the master key to their obsession.

Not that I’m going to upbraid them for writing porn as fact. They are victims of their compulsion.

I was looking at some old comments. And found this inventive story someone posted about three years ago.

We started doing the motion sensor thing about 8 years ago. We don’t do it a whole lot these days but it still is in our repertoire of activities.

When I first got the idea, it was a simple case of picking out one that I thought would do the job. I looked at the features and went with my best guess. I got one that had a sensitivity control, which I always run at maximum. It has a switch that lets you decide how long the motion light should be on. This, of course, is going to determine the length of time you receive each correction. Options on my particular unit are: 4 seconds, 4 minutes or 12 minutes. I’ve gone with the 4 second option because it seemed about right.

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I know that many find black backgrounds enchanting. I have a couple with dark background color. But that is only because I’m lazy. Eventually I’ll switch them to white backgrounds.

My ViewSonic monitor’s brightness diminished within a year of my buying it. But long before I’d often found myself frustrated and annoyed by low contrast websites. Especially those with small text and inappropriate fonts.

There are blogs can barely read and never linked to because of the eyestrain.

If your goal is to look ‘cool’ do what pleases you. If you want to be read understand that the big commercial sites have spent literally millions of dollars making sure that black on white is what most readers want.

‘Comment’ left on one of my sites that focuses on female tops and male bottoms:

Dominant male looking for submissive female

That kind of aimless cluelessness is one quality that I don’t want in a dominant. I’m sure most submissive women agree.

About four years ago I outlined what struck me then, as a genuinely brutal whipping that was an archetypal masochistic fantasy of mine. The particulars are irrelevant.

Recently someone left a comment to rather forcibly let me know that he didn’t think the scenario was brutal. My correspondent evidently endures hours of scream worthy corporal punishment.

Hooray for him.

Our bodies and minds aren’t identically constructed. The physiological ability to handle physical pain and the masochistic gift to process it erotically are individual to each of us.

Sure I know many sadists really like masochists who can really take it rough. But the best sadists understand the subjectivity of S&M and that it isn’t an Olympic sport. They can appreciate that for some people thirty minutes with a flogger is the most they can take.

Treating masochism as a competitive event is risky since it can motivate a bottom to try to endure more than he or she should. It can be another form of rape.

‘Manly’ masochists should relish their own capacity but otherwise just shut up.

Very long and ver self-involved. No kink. I don’t particularly suggest that you read it. I put it here because for me it is natural companion to In Praise of Feminine Gay Males.

One of my favorite people in all of space and time.

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(From June of last year.)

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In my note about the foolish men who think photographs of their phallus is the best way to present themselves this remark inspired a little skepticism:

On gay sites - where enthusiasm for penises is a given - such photos don’t appear.

Ok, there are nitwits everywhere. But I’ve never seen a cock shot on, say, Slaves4Masters.

You see a gay man with even a modestly successful sex life will see more penises within a year or two of coming out than most women will in their lifetimes. Gay men certainly like penises but aren’t devastated by the site of one. And know that unless they are singularly blest theirs won’t inspire awe.

The straight guy - and frustrated closeted bisexual - only knows his own. It is one of the focal points of his universe.

But thinking about it I’ve come to suspect that he isn’t necessarily trying to impress anyone when he posts that photo. He really thinks that is what is valued about him. Hence all the money that is spent on worthless herbal enlargement pills and phalloplasty.

This morning I was reading Gibbon’s account of early Christian monasticism. For once his lofty irony seemed suspended. Lives of self-imposed dreariness, voluntary surrender to petty, pettifogging authority was obviously alien to him. People chose to submit to experiences normally the province of the worst sort of tyranny.

Sounds like some of the D/s profiles I’ve read.

I’ve meant to quote some of the good personal ads I’ve seen written by tops. But I get distracted and forget to copy them. Thinking back a few of the best I’ve read was strong in a quality not often associated with personals: good-humor.

The best profiles show good-natured empathy. I especially admire profiles by dominants that show appreciation of the needs and complications of submissive people. Maybe make a witty aside or two. You are reading the words of someone who seems complete, not just a role.

I don’t think tops need to remind us all that much that they want to be in control. We know that. And those of us who are submissive want them to take that control.

It may be a little harder for a submissive man or woman to show their good humor and wit. Too often writing a personal ad can seem like a burdensome balancing act as you try to present yourself accurately while feeling reluctant to accidentally drive someone away with a sentence not fully understood.

BDSM profiles will be all the better for exhibiting good-natured personality.

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