Award-winning sex therapist, pioneering sexologist, and best-selling author, Dr. Gloria Brame has been a legendary figure in the world of BDSM since publishing her classic text, Different Loving, in 1993. A former English professor, Gloria’s began researching, writing, and erotically exploring radical sex and fluid relationships in the early 1980s. Gloria founded the first online BDSM support group on Compuserve in 1987 and has not ceased since then to advance the cause of sexual progress and to help destroy the anti-sex myths and bigotries that destroy human lives through her books, blogs, and projects.
IM Jae is an internationally recognized sex educator and coach who specializes in kinky sex. Human sexuality has fascinated her as long as she can remember. Her mother teased her that she came out of the womb boy-crazy and curious about everything to do with sex! This might have a little something to do with the fact that she grew up listening to Howard Stern and watching episodes of Benny Hill. At 17 she bought a copy of The Kama Sutra and combed through it for hours. In college, IM Jae wrote her senior honors project on sex ethics, a first for the relatively conservative Philosophy Department.
Forneycation lived the first half of her life in Palmdale, CA, but now resides in a very small college town in Missouri, just minutes away from the Kansas and Oklahoma border. She has been active in the local scene on and off for 8 years. She is currently a trustee in her local group that she is trying to help build so that local kinksters can have a safe, fun, friendly, and educational space. Forneycation is also a new kinky youtuber. As a kinkster, she is a romantic submissive who enjoys Cg/l, pet play, impact play, electricity, fire, bondage, and playing with fear, though there is much more she’d like to explore. She first had BDSM experiences when she was too young, but was in love and wanted to explore. Unsurprisingly, that didn’t work out so well, but then she attended her first munch when she was 18 and has strived to take better care of herself as a submissive. She now is in an open, but vanilla marriage. Forneycation is also a huge animation, horror, film in general, and musical theatre nerd. These things can often find themselves being intertwined with kink whether it is watching cartoons in little space or researching kinky movies to later show friends.
Terra has been a cam model since 2014, starting on KinkLive.com, a former camsite affiliated with Kink.com where she was a top earner for 3 months before expanding her audience to mainstream communities like Charturbate and Streamate. Craving a more kink-friendly community, Terra made moves to launch her own site, SpankableTerra.com and now cams full time on Cam4.com. Offline, Terra is involved in her local kink community, loves rope, impact play and exploring new kinks and fetishes.
La Maison du Rouge is focused on expanding the BDSM experience by discussing, educating, and informing our audiences about the intersections of kink, wellness, sexuality, spirituality, and social activism. We aim to build community in this regard by creating a safe space for discussing these topics as well as advocating the normalization of alternative sexualities. By challenging current social norms, we aspire to bolster a culture around consent and open communication.
LMdR was founded on the compassionate and principled interests of the professional dominatrix duo Lucy Sweetkill and Dia Dynasty. After meeting at a commercial BDSM house and spending many years building a sisterhood, Lucy and Dia ventured to create something of their own. They are committed to elevating BDSM and fostering community through intersectional discourse and sharing personal narratives.
Everything has a beginning. There are various ways to initiate a kinky/BDSM lifestyle. It may start with playfully exploring kink and the offer of a little spank here or there. Perhaps, dabbling in light bondage awakens something inside of you. Or maybe, you slip on silk panties just to try them on for fun. But then one day the line between curiosity and desire is crossed, and you discover a driving need for more. BDSM becomes part of your life. So I asked a couple of my kinky friends about their first experiences of living out fantasies.
How many times have you had an orgasm or gave someone an orgasm just by talking with them over the phone? Ever since I was a teenager, I have loved to have phone sex with girlfriends. I still do it as an adult. PepLove.com is a female-owned BDSM/kink phone sex group that is unlike any other phone sex company. They do not just do kinky phone sex. They also do “kink counseling.” Trust me when I say this: they are magnificent women who are smart, funny, understanding, and kinky. So, I asked our PepLove friends about their professional lives.
Mechanical Pencil Girl is a Fetish Illustrator, Pervert, Sadomasochist, and Existential Absurdist with a penchant for buying too many books. This is a video chat with Nicholas Tanek.
In the vanilla world, Marilyn is a labor and delivery nurse and sex-positive mother of three but lives the BDSM lifestyle 24/7 as a sadomasochistic switch that thrives on all things edge play. She sits down with Nicholas Tanek for a video chat.
