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Letters to Tomorrow: DSF Slaves Write “Dear Me”

The turning of the year is a chance to pause, reflect, and choose a direction. For this “Dear Me” devotion, DSF slaves and servants wrote short letters to their future selves – capturing what they hope to grow into, remember, or change in the year ahead. shovelbum d’Elf (talis) Dear Santa, Keeper of Snow and…
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“Goodness of Fit”, D/s, and Femdoms in Second Life – by Rosa Hunter

The concept of “goodness of fit” comes from research considering parenting and temperament: According to Chess and Thomas (1999, pp. 3) “goodness of fit results when the properties of the environment and its expectations and demands are in accord with the organism’s own capacities, characteristics, and style of behaving.” If there is a match between an…
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Servant and Slave: What’s the Difference?

Our recent Salon at DSF raised the following topic: While no one gets to define your submission but you, there are general categories within the lifestyle. We will explore those of servant and slave. The conversation that followed opened up a whole host of issues and, as usually, every left with lots of new questions…