Vir Cotto's BDSM Blog

Bravery in the face of rejection

Whenever I read a story of how someone in the scene has overcome rejection, I see a lot of positive, supportive reactions. These stories, almost always from women, go something along the lines of:

"I was too scared so I didn't ask" or even "I was rejected so many times …

There's my ex-wife's ass, or "The Tiny World of the Scene"

I think all of us know the experience of a small community. Maybe we were in a club in High School, or an online forum or some other world. We know the dangers of dating within that group, of the awkwardness of having dated someone in that community, and then …

Drop your top a note

Hey Bottoms,

Did you have a great time last night? Did the top really give you a good scene? Did they help you feel really good? Did you enjoy yourself?

Then drop them a little note the next day.

Many tops (including myself) will tell a bottom that if they …

Why I use simple safewords

Safety signals are very important, especially if you're playing with someone you don't know well.

Not that long ago, someone wanted to do a scene with me and told me her safeword was... I don't actually remember, so let's say it was abrachiocephalia.

"What? I don't know that word." I …

Some Thoughts on Service

I've recently been reading Sacred Power, Holy Surrender and there's a section on it about the concept of service. It's made me consider my entire approach to service in a different way.

When I was a child, service was a complex topic. We owned a bakery and my parents (but …

Why I do so much work on myself, and why I write about it

I've come across a few people who have read my writing either before meeting me or after meeting and considering playing with me, and a few of them have been turned off by my explicit and vivid descriptions of the kind of deep psychological work I've been doing, and why …

What Power Exchange Means To Me

Power Exchange is not topping. Power exchange is not domming. Power exchange is not mastery. Yet it gets conflated with all of these in our community. That's because along with the love, the trust, the caring and wish fulfillment, we are in love with imagery and symbolism. We love the …

Love Languages and Me

I've never been one to subscribe to those online quizzes that revel some deep part of your personality to you, but I took the Love Languages one (http://www.5lovelanguages.com/) and it did was illuminating.

Here are my results:

9 Quality Time 7 Acts of Service 6 Words of …