Vir Cotto's BDSM Blog

Fight Injustice Everywhere

That's right- that's the whole message- Fight Injustice Everywhere.

If you see people getting an unfair shake because they were born into a body with a different color than the people in power, help them.

If you see people getting an unfair shake because they were born with ...

Borderline and Co-Dependency in the Scene: Part 6- Recover

This is the final installment of my six part series on Borderline and Codependency in the BDSM community. In this post, I will outline resources to help the Codependent live a happier life.

If you haven't read the other parts, they are:

Part 1: [The Appeal of a Borderline ...

Antisemitism and the Scene

I'm a lucky to be a Jewish man living in New York, though truth be told, luck isn't a part of it. I chose to live here. At age 32, I moved to New York city, in part because I wanted to be around Jewish culture.

I'm ...

Interest Does Not Make Right

When I was in college, I read the "The Republic" which discussed many ideas, one of which is generally known in English as "Might Makes Right" (which it then disproves). Unfortunately, I've seen a theme in the kink community I'll call "Interest Makes Right". Here's how that ...

What Your Collar Means To Me

Our community has at its core a few principles, one of which is that we don't kink-shame. We don't tell other people that their kink is wrong or right, or that how they practice it is right or wrong. But that doesn't mean that how someone else ...

This pie is too small to cut up

I've seen a very sad trend in the NYC kink community, and that's taking a small pie and cutting it up into smaller, segregated pieces.

Let's be frank for a moment: We're a tiny minority group.

I think that if you count all the regulars in ...

Safe spaces are about excluding (you) and that's okay

As a dominant cis het man in the scene, I've had to accept a long time ago that there are spaces that I'm not allowed in. Some exclude me because I'm dominant, some exclude me because I'm white, some exclude me because I'm cis male ...

All these white people telling me what to do

My genetic origin is Central European. Specifically, I'm an Ashkenazi Jew. That means that while some people would see me and think "There's a white guy", but in actuality I know that others look at me and think "There's a Jew". I know because it's happened ...

The Unwanted Threesome

Everyone can do their kink the way they want to but one of my hard limits is the unwelcome threesome- that is when someone suggests to me that if I want to play (or sometimes even talk) with them, that I need to go ask a third party.

I don ...

Breakups in Poly Suck

Everyone talks about the jealousy that comes with poly. Seeing your partner happy is difficult, but everyone warns you about it. The other part is seeing your partner sad because of a breakup.

And when that happens- so many feels. You feel bad for them, sympathy. You seem the emptiness ...