1. Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton (Republican) has been accused of going to far with his consensual partner during BDSM play. Click through to read more here.

2. Photographer Kate Peters spent a year in the UK taking shots of Dominatrix’s for her photo project “Yes, Mistress”. Among her collection are images of BDSM tools and scene rooms.  Click through to read more.

3. From the Switch,  Mike O’Neill’s office is being given away for the holidays. Among the items you can win is the “Bondage Me Elmo”. Click through to read more. *Update, all items have been given away and the contest is closed.

4. Fetlife.com helps Seattle police catch a crazy kinkster.  Click through to read more. *Good Job, fetlife admins!!!

5. Kink.com‘s Peter Acworth and James Mogul turn the Armory’s top level into TheUpperFloor.com which is a 24/7 slave community. Acworth told the Gaurdian’s Sex SF blog:

“From the first time I saw the Armory was for sale, I couldn’t help but think of the Story of O and other stories.”  said, Acworth.

Please visit the Educate Against Prop-8 facebook page.

Yahoo AP article: Article at Yahoo.com
Mormons Stole Our Rights: Support Site

America needs to ban together to show the Mormon Church that we will not allow a religious group to take away our freedoms granted and guaranteed by the Constitution. We do this by using their own actions against them and ban together to remove their status as a religious organization.

Join us in this social cause, marriage should not be controlled by government or church but left in the hands of those who are effected, the public.

UPDATE
Here are more links I have found including reports of members of the Mormon Church physically attacking peaceful protesters.

Prop 8 Protesters in Ca.: Article at signonsandiego.com
Video of protest and attacks: Video at LATimes.com

~~BloodLustDaddy~~

Finally, someone has done a study showing that we are not the broken sexual deviants that today’s society would make us out to be. I am very excited about the study that took place and am hoping that this institution will continue to explore those of us in the lifestyle. Another positive from an academic study such as this, is that in the years to come more people who are new to the lifestyle won’t have to deal with the heightened level of shame and fear that has plagued us in “normal” society. Or at least, one can hope for that kind of outcome.

Other news of note going on in regards to the lifestyle are:
BDSM at the Cutting Room—with Chris Noth
When Does a ‘Slave’ Become a Slave?
Town officials issue summonses to new adult club
Standard:Deviation—Not your average psychology class
10 Gadgets That Turn Your Empty Kid’s Room Into a Den of Depravity (NSFW)
All tied up!

That’s all for now. Next week we’ll update you with some more news as it pertains to the lifestyle.

~surrender4love

The scientific community feels that being dominate is a positive human trait while being submissive is not. They align being submissive alongside depression as a personality disorder that needs to be cured. One way in which they want to cure the “submissive gene” is through medication and what better way to develop a human medication directed at manipulating our brains than through the old standard of lab mice using only one form of basic testing.

The basic test is called the Water Test. What they do is take five mice and place them in a cage with a short supply of water. The naturally dominant mice go after the water until one dominant mouse is the only one in control of the water. The remaining mice who did not attempt to challenge the dominant are labeled as naturally submissive as they chose to defer to the dominant mouse in lieu of taking life preserving water. The dominant mice that lost out to the one victorious dominant mouse are placed back into general groupings of five to test how many can persevere and gain water supremacy.

The basic testing concept is simple enough. Basic animal instincts for survival and all that and it is not behavior that is surprising at all. However, while holding onto a misguided ideal that humans are somehow superior to the rest of the planets animals the scientific community feels that humans should not hold back their survival instinct to defer to a dominant but rather that we should all be dominant. Having all humans be dominant makes no sense to me because our societal structure certainly does not support that ideal.

The goal is to use the DSR behavioral model in developing medication to make the human “submissive gene” controllable. The medications developed are advertised and prescribed not as anti-submissive medication but as anti-depressants. Yet another reason to do more research into something when your regular doctor just wants to write you a script. Also, I will admit into being a tad angry in learning that my natural mental state is seen as a mental disorder and not only that but due to the way that I am the scientific community decrees that I’m just really depressed and need to be fixed in some way. My DaddyDom is the only cure that I need and I am the one who choses that, not some doctor who deems me socially inept for being submissive.

If you want to learn more about the “submissive gene” and the testing that is going on to cure submissive people, please visit the following links:
Effect of verapamil on submissive behavior in genetically bred hypercholinergic rats in a water competition test.
Submissive mice might help fight depression
Reduction of submissive behavior in rats
Dominant–submissive behavior as models of mania and depression

~surrender4love

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers

The items that I really feel should be highlited are:

More than one geek has told me that Home Depot is their favorite adult store.

Of course, where else can you get little metal clips that will support the full weight of three adults swinging from the ceiling in a homemade sex swing?

Geeks dig consensual role playing

Woof, Woof… rape play… nuff said

Geeks don’t shock easily

Very true, I have seen things that would make a vanilla person never want to see an bunghole or vagina again…

Geeks haven’t just seen a variety of positions, kinks and fetishes in blue movies. They know (or are) people who enjoy those things

Very true, every geek I know is either a kinkster or knows a kinkster.. perhaps this is because of seeing the most fucked up shit… after some of the things we have seen perhaps kink is the only way to get off anymore.

So what about you? Are you a geek and a kinkster? Leave a comment and shout out if your a geekster or nerdlinger. I am interested in how many readers qualify.

~~BloodLustDaddy~~

According to social services, she lives in “total submission” to her husband and male relatives including her father and brother-in-law. Click here to read full article over at the Scotsman News online.

Now, when I first saw the headline: Burka-wearing woman denied citizenship for being ‘submissive’, I thought that surely this must be some kind of joke. You know, maybe a case of sensationalizing a headline just to get people to read it but nope, it’s true.

Granted, the submission in question is due to religious beliefs but I feel that it is still pertinent to the lifestyle choices that we make in living D/s. It’s absolutely ridiculous to me that a governing body has the right to tell a woman she is too submissive. Historically, a woman’s role has been forcibly submissive within society up until the sexual revolution. I think that in this case it is more of a religious issue with France not wanting to give citizenship to Muslims and that the woman’s submission is just a scapegoat for them in that regard.

I couldn’t imagine my local government here in America denying me any rights because I was too submissive. If anything, in America woman are denied more for being forced into independence than submission and society plays more of a role in that than the local government does. I’m looked down on for being owned in society. Looked at as less than a human being, an object that people must feel sorry for and try to liberate because I cannot go anywhere or do anything without permission from BloodLustDaddy.

People stare when I go out, like they did today while grocery shopping. My hair up in a pony tail and my collar clearly showing with the metal screws in the back; there is no mistaking my collar for a necklace anymore since he made a new one for me. Family members get irritated with me because I cannot just pick up and do random shopping trips with them or just go out with them in general. One family member has even started asking BloodLustDaddy if I can go out instead of coming to me because it became too much of an issue for me to tell them “I don’t know if I can go, let me check with BloodLustDaddy.” And going through all of this is okay. I made the choice to be submissive to BloodLustDaddy because I trust him with every aspect of my life. I am submissive by nature and being in a D/s relationship with him 24/7 allows me the freedom to be simply who I am.

~surrender4love~