An Article by Yaldah Tovah, MD In an earlier paper, I highlighted the developmental line that produces a healthy adult heterosexual submissive female (here). I highlighted the role of temperament and environment and how they interact to influence the personality development of girls destined to have a submissive orientation in adulthood. In doing so, I…
Author: Ian
The Etiquette of Online BDSM
I spend too much time on Facebook. Family, friends, local news, pages and groups for pretty much any interest, including BDSM, and I spend a lot of time there. I enjoy the diversity, the opportunity to learn, to interact with a wide variety of people from different backgrounds and with different interests and experiences. However,…
Submissive and slave: Etymology and Usage of the Terms in Lifestyle BDSM
The battle over the terms submissive and slave is an ongoing and never-ending one in the BDSM space; it gets even worse when people from the vanilla world attempt to get involved and subject us to their interpretations and biases. I am not going to offer a definitive answer, nor am I capable of doing…
Ten Rules for submissives
1. Be PatientA potential top will let you know if she or he is interested in you or not. Keep in mind that your purpose as a submissive is to serve and to satisfy someone who will take into consideration the realization of your fantasies. Don’t expect your top to be able to turn on…
Ten Rules for Dominants
1. Be PatientUntil you enter into a contract with a submissive, you have no more right to order him/her around than does anyone else. Give your bottom time to get to know you and what you like. Finesse and subtlety are major elements of dominance. Similarly, strength and gentleness go hand in hand. The sensitivity…
The 613 Mitzvot
The Talmud (Tractate Makkot 23b) recounts that there are 613 mitzvot in the Torah; of these, 248 are positive mitzvot (things we must do) and 365 are considered negative mitzvot (things we must not do). The following list of the 613 mitzvot is from one of our greatest scholars, Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides, who…
Civil Marriage is not Jewish Marriage
Jewish marriage is the coming together of a man and a woman, following those laws established in Torah, in a manner that honors God and in such a way that they are recognized by the Jewish community. Marriage, we must understand, has a divinely appointed purpose which is why the Christians refer to it as…
Polygamy in the Bible: A Response to David Instone-Brewer
A Christian article, but worth reading. An Article by David B. Sloan Recently the Logos Bible Software blog posted an excerpt from David Instone-Brewer’s book Moral Questions of the Bible: Timeless Truths in a Changing World that argued that “Jesus criticized polygamy as a warped version of the lifelong committed relationship of a one-plus-one marriage.”…
The Bible, Polygamy, and the Church Today
This article is written from a Christian perspective not a Jewish one, but is worth reading. An Article by David B. Sloan It is often said that the Bible defines marriage as “a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman,” meaning that polygamy is unbiblical.[1] But the Bible offers no such definition and has…
A Brief History of the Cowboy Hat
The Cowboy Hat is the most iconic and recognized clothing accessory in the world. No matter where I go, wearing a cowboy hat is sure to mark me as part of America’s Western culture. Sure, there are a few places outside of the U.S. where cowboy hats thrive, but even when they put their own…