6 KARLIE AND FAYE—SWEAT FOR THE SWEET Photography by Lee Forbes
16 CHAIN MAIL
Far-Flung Flashes From the Fetish Front
20 LENT LEASH
Fiction by Ernest Greene
Photography by Red Velvet
24 LULU AND RUKA- UNAVOIDABLY DETAINED
Photography by DDF Productions
32 ZUZANA—LIQUID REFRESHMENT
Photography by Sexkicks
40 TABOO'S ANAL ADVISOR
Super-Stretchers, Fetching Fans and Piss Ports
by Tristan Taormina
44 PRISCILLA—CELLAR DWELLER
Photography by Matti Klatt
52 ISOBEL—SCHOOLED IN SIN
Photography by Videoerotica
58 READERS' DOMAIN
Could You Please Keep the Noise Down?
60 ANGEL AND RAM—
TREATMENT RESPONSIVE
Photography by DDF Productions
94 EUROPE YEAR 2117—PART EIGHT
Graphic Novel by Agnes
EDITORIAL NOTE
STRICTLY SPEAKING
A master/slave couple we know who have been married nearly half a century describe
their relationship as "a work in progress." The other day, we got an
email from the Dominant partner of a D/s couple who had worked hard for the past
several years at living the TPE (Total Power Exchange) dream 24/7 and, as the
formerly all-sub member has started to explore her top space, have decided henceforward
to describe themselves as a dom-switch couple and seek out submissive female playmates
they can both enjoy.
As we've pointed out here before, Dominant and submissive roles are not set in
stone. The sadoerotic impulse exists in undifferentiated form in most hUmma-porn-star">Uman beings,
and the difference between a dominant expression of that impulse and its submissive
mirror-image is like the difference between positive and negative poles on a battery—a
mere electron apart.
Therefore, with few exceptions, D/s relationships are subject to powerful fluid
dynamics that require frequent reexamination and redefinition to remain hot, fun,
satisfying and happy. People change over time and this aspect of their characters
is not immune to those changes. At various events, we've seen many a Master or
Mistress kneeling and an equal number of "slaves" wielding whips. While
a tendency toward one preference or the other may be hardwired (and there's tantalizing
anecdotal evidence suggesting such preferences may even be heritable), most long-term
BDSM players will experience oscillations between the poles over a long enough
period.
Therefore, the secret to success in a lasting D/s relationship is no different
from that of any other. As a long-married vanilla acquaintance once summed it
up for us: Don't be stubborn. This is not to suggest that switching is an inevitable
phase in every such pairing, or that switching per se is the only solution to
evolving BDSM identities. The couple looking for a shared sub is one alternative,
for example. But those more married to an image than to a partner will come to
grief in the world of kink just as surely as they would were their sexuality entirely
conventional.
—Ernest Greene, Executive Editor
