Shibari Workshop

Earlier this week, my housemate and I tuned into Anatomie Studio‘s online Shibari class. The session focused on floor self-tying to learn key knots and rope positioning. So, we fetched our rope, poured two glasses of Bailey’s and plugged the Mac into the TV… We were ready to up-skill in Lockdown 2.0. Shibari, or Kinbaku,…

Sub Space House

Creating Sub Space House When “Ropes” and “Wing Girl” created Sub Space House in December 2019, they didn’t expect a lockdown to stop their frivolous fun. Despite this, the pair are keen to resume events once it’s safe to do so and they have big, big plans for taking Sub Space global. To find out…

Bruises

Trigger warning: rough sex (consensual but rough) It wasn’t long before the blood rose to the surface. A red slash on my hipfrom the crack of the whipwas the first to appear. Next came the speckled purple and blueon my boob, slapped by you. How would my cheek react? Hands around my throatmaking me chokeas…

Dominating Life, Submitting in the Sheets…

As regular readers will know, 2020 has so far been an experience.  Not least because I split with my ex just before a global lockdown, or because I’ve got a new job as an erotic scriptwriter for Emjoy, but also because I’ve been delving deeper into the world of kink. I’ve always loved talking to people and finding…

Behind Closed Doors

During times of isolation with too much time to think, we often assess what’s important to us. For some, this is explicitly figuring out our wants and needs by making lists and talking with friends, and for others, this might be an internal dialogue – giving ourselves time to re-evaluate things in our lives. For me,…

Kink in Quarantine

It wasn’t until the last few years of my twenties that I realised that rough sex is more common than I originally thought. Yes, hair-pulling is a common sexual preference and Pornhub is awash with all manner of synonyms for “BDSM”, but when you know where to look, you’ll find a crowd you had previously…