Exploring the BDSM scene: Chains of the mind
September 17, 2007 by London Spengler
This post is the third part of a group of five posts that starts here.
Once I decided to behave openly as an slave, things changed a lot. At first it was exciting, of course. All the new things, the rules, the kink, the sex.
The kink sex, too :-p.
I remember some interesting moments, like when I asked my Mistress to choose a look for me, and she and some of her friends choosed the pale skin and the hair, that I’ve kept since them as my most adventurous side. I also remember to wait in a shop naked, kneeling and alone, while some clothings where being choosed (below you can see one of the scarce pictures I kept from that time… I keep the outfit, too :-).

I think that the one of the bests moments of all was when I was ordered to show the long tattoo to a group of Mistress friends, and I standed naked, my back and long elven ears caressed, excited and trembling while people I didn’t knew praised me. That day I discovered my exhibitionist streak, that I’ve treasured and nurtured since then.
I posed today like that day, for the blog, and the pleasure of it.

As I said, an exotic, kink, exciting life. At least at first.
Now the rant is coming, I want to make it clear that it is about my own personal experience; I don’t need to be told that things are pretty different for other people, nor is this a critic to the lifestyle… it is only the tale of what happened to me.
I growed bored kneeling at her feet for hours by Mistress siden, in places that don’t really had to do much with me, and I hated when the rules forced me to behave in a public way that could annoy or disgust other people; it isn’t polite to force your lifestyle in front of vanilla people, in vanilla places.
The collar, profile changes and talking continously in third person (sigh, that was truly tiring) are an obvious sign of your lifestile for everybody, and most people become uneasy when they talk with you since, well, you are somebody’s else property. Worse, one of my passions is to tease and flirt, but since I wasn’t able to correspond anybody, I felt bad doing it, and with time, I leaved it.
I had asked at first to be free to choose other lovers but later it becomed a promisse to ask previous permission, and then a monogamic state. Rules changed insidiously, slowly, always more and more restrictive ones. As time passed the need to talk in a respectfull way, to ask permission for most things, to keep my distance for other people, dulled me. I was bored, tired and sad. Things wasn’t fun anymore; I wasn’t fun anymore.
But I had gived my word to stay and be a slave, and I keep my word.
Months passed, sometimes alone for long hours, days or, worse, alone at Mistress feet. Only a fucktoy to be used from time to time; Sad sex with little involvement.
I propossed some things, offered to script items, tried new activities, but nothing seemed to get the interest of my Mistress, and I felt more and more lonely and useless. I asked my liberty sometimes, sometimes after angry rows, and never got it.
Sigh. You know that thinking about it still hurts?
With time, a small miracle happened; well, a big one for me *smiles*. I was feeling lonely, as always, sitting in a log by the fire in one of the long Mistress absences when Natsumi addressed me. We talked for hours and, that same night, while we where sitting at Dublin’s bridge, I felt in love.
I remember that like the other top moment of my slavery, sitting with her, unable to kiss her, waiting for my Mistress to come back to get her permission to love her. Love and desire thorn me for days.
At the end the permission comed with some obvious conditions; even if Nat wasn’t going to be a slave, she should share herself, something that she agreed about, since it matched her own poly beliefs.
The first days where good, even if I wanted more and more to be with Nat, needed her so much that I suffered when she wasn’t around; but that was only to be expected of a serious case of Cupido illness.
Later pressure increassed over Natsumi, far from the previous limits, as it had happened to me before. Sad days while I tried to defend her from a weak position, with my hands tied, while she endured it not to lose risking me.
Do you remember the red and black gothic outfit I published at the introduction? Goth isn’t my turf, but I arranged it in one of Mistress absences, to please her… days after it she comed, I ported and saluted her, and she said hello in a casual way, and ignored me. Yes, she probably was IM’g, but I was her slave, and I waited, and she didn’t even notice the dress…
At the end, when she dismissed me without some kind but distraugth words, I ported and removed it, crying and enraged. It took a long time before I weared it again.
After weeks of this I had to choose, and choosed love. Runned away from my slavery, promised not to take a new Master or Mistress and slowly, healed. Found the strength to work, developed the Pandora Hud, partnered Nat, tested the polyamorous theory until it demostrated too much for me, and ended with a semi-stable life that I enjoy madly.
Dominant/submissive relations can be a good way of life, but they are dangerous if not done properly. I don’t know if I was being manipulated, but I doubt it; I simply think that the dullness was the result of a slight mistreating, of selfishness. I was withering, abandoned, but not released, and couldn’t shake it until I saw it starting to happen to somebody I loved. Natsumi saved me.
Ok, end of the rant and of the story, but still two post to come. In the next one I’ll talk about some games that can help you to get a taste of SL D/s, without risking the heavy psicological involvement of a true relation. Don’t expect a revolution, mostly they are only some scenes that Nat and I like to play with sometimes (partnered doesn’t mean dead :-p), always with a fun spirit… even if they can be so, so exciting .-p
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Quite an interesting experience and a great love story between you and Nat, too. Thanks for sharing it.
But while reading it, it once again showed me the main thing that I don’t understand in this slave situation. As I already said, it’s not my style of living or loving at all, but I can understand that people might find it interesting to be told what to do and do anything without asking for the reasons.
But what I totally don’t get is the long times of being alone, waiting, especially not on SL. For most of us, our time for going in-world is limited due to this RL thing and if I imagine going online just to sit in one place, not allowed to do anything or talk to anybody, with only a slight hope to have my master/mistress call me eventually … forgive me, but that sounds mostly like a BIG waste of time.
Maybe there’s more behind it that I don’t see yet and as it led you to your relationship with Natsumi in the end, I’ll wait for the other parts of the story and hope for more insight ;)
Oh, and that’s a very sexy picture! ;-)
*giggles about the picture praise*
I am afraid there is no more insight, only kink fun and games on the next post (ok, and maybe some tips about D/s, topping and bottoming, as I think it should be done).
The waiting is suposed to be a trade, a way to show your care and respect for somebody. At first I scripted a bit, or IMd people; but at the end was simply a fucking, deppresing waste of time.
Life, and not only the second one, is too sort to loss it that way.
Mh. I’d have to agree with the waiting thing.. such a waste of time. But.. from what I’ve seen from all the submissive friends I have, most of them don’t wait like that. Only if their mistress/master is online. Alot of them are just a RP relationship.. not really a true relationship in a more real life sense.. so alot of them do not follow the rules and such when they are not with their mistress. But I still think it’s such a waste. ._.
My own experiences are basically just my interactions with the various subs I know, and the very few dom’s.. except for some things I don’t like to talk about.
::Coughs shifty eyed.:: And speaking about exhibitionalism.. we ought to go out streaking some time. ::Giggles.:: Fun thing to do: Find a place in the mainland with a long road, and just follow the road as far as you can. Naked of course. ::Giggles some more.:: Not as many people on the roads, but enough to make it fun, hehe.
Anyway.. I kinda wish I had been around durring that time.. That maybe I could have helped you out of some of those lonely times.. but that would change the now.. I wouldn’t change our relationship for anything in the world. I Love you and Nat too much. ::Smiles.. Gives a biiig hug.::
*hugs you tightly*
Love, Natsumi
Natty!! ::Pounces, and smothers with lil kisses and nuzzles, and snuggles and other things she shouldn’t put on a blog.::
there’s only kinkdy sex in a bdsm controlled scene? steal/buy their toys and build your own castle. asking me to behave in any other manner than total freedom is a stretch.
Probably I didn’t explain myself right, Kat. The waiting was while she was online, or suposedly online. I stayed by the side of an avatar that was busy talking with other people, doing other things or simply away. And yes, I was autoriced to say I wanted to go away, but after a while I felt guilty about doing it so often.
About obeying or not the rest of the rules while she was offline… well, that is the difference between being a slave or playing a slave :-p. There are things I whould had changed in the past, yes, but as you, I whouldn’t do if that mean to change our present. *Smiles and hugs Nat and you while thinking about your exhibitionism suggestion*
EnCore, of course kink sex isn’t limited to BDSM, or even D/s, but this post was about that. Of course I understand that isn’t everybody’s turf; in fact it isn’t mine *smiles warmly*, I am only telling what happened in those days.
And, about the “damn that london. so much for anonymity.” comment on your blog… change the link to it on your name here if you don’t want us to follow it :-p.
Hehe.. Honestly, the only thing that would have changed is how long I’ve known you. The ferocity in which I Love you and Nat would never die down, it’ll never get lower.. just more and more and more with time.. I Love you two so damn much it hurts.
Lovely photos, of a truly lovely woman! :)
I have a friend who’s had a *very* similar experience in her relationship with her Mistress - she was crying on my shoulder in IM during my last party…. and I haven’t seen her in SL since. I miss her. She needed to move on from her Mistress’s neglect, but I wish she’d given the rest of the world more of a chance.
I’m looking forward to your next post - you’re getting me thinking about blogging about my adventures with family, something I haven’t done in *forever*!
I wish you were in world more, first for your family, and second for seeing you sometimes - but spending time with Nat in your absence is one of the great treasures of my life, and I have to thank you for that! :)
Don’t forget to invite all your readers to my Pajama Party this Saturday, 3:30-7pm SLT! :)
Interesting read, from someone who has been on the sub side for a long, and happy time.
Talking in the third person is an odd one, and one I’ve never gone for. To my mind BDSM is a relationship, one that’s not quite mainstream, but still between two (or more) people. I’m my Mistress’ pet/sub/etc. but I’m still a person, so’s she, and what we make between us is still a relationship between two people. I guess that spills on into the waiting game too. Waiting can be deeply, wonderfully, erotic. It can be dull as ditchwater too. It’s like anything else I guess, it depends on why and how it’s handled and how common it is.
If ALL you do is stand, or kneel, around and wait whilst your partner is too busy for you, then there’s something wrong. You’re moving from being a person to a thing, not a good place. That’s not to say it won’t happen sometimes, maybe often, depending on how busy your partner is - it happens with friends too after all, and is part of SL after all.
Perhaps it’s the slave thing. Whatever else I am, I’m no-one’s slave. I’m not property. I’m a submissive woman, and I always, always remain a person. I enjoy the rules, I’m generally happy for them to become more restrictive, but if they start to dehumanise me, restrict my ability to do my work, cut me off from my friends then I’ll object (different to be told as a punishment you can’t talk to anyone for a day than “you can only IM with permission,” or “you must ask permission to talk at this party” because they’re temporary things).
But, I’m sorry to hear of the bad time you had with it. Whilst I find being submissive deeply fulfilling and wonderful, it’s not for everyone. Hard to say if it’s for you, or you just got unlucky - sadly there are just as many jerks out there in the BDSM scene as in the vanilla scene, and as many, if not more, chances for relationships to go awry even if all the parties are reasonable human beings.
just so there’s no misunderstanding love, my “damn london…” was a yoke. i mean joke. bad day? sheesh. like i don’t know how the web works. alas, i know all too well. that’s why that aspect of our sexuality is presented there and not on my more public persona on my blogspot. i’m sure the blend will mate one day. who knows, i could be having philosophical discussions of bdsm while putting the screws to my sub.
if you want to know my take on the d/s scene from a considerably dom type personality. we equate our existence to a reflection of society. good training for the real world to be disciplined by those who love you than those who have no regard for you as more than a piece of meat. who wants that type of reality? it is, after all, merely play. enjoy it or not. if not, don’t play.
Kat, I whould say that maybe you whouldn’t had liked me then, I was prety crazy that days, but since I still am, probably you whouldn’t had noticed the difference after all *smiles and hugs you tight*
Soph, I hope your friend recovers, and I miss you too… but it is good to see you are having so much fun with Nat (grrrrr :-p). And I am running out of stories, so it whould be a good idea that you start publishing yours… that way I could simply link to your page from here :-).
Hello, Eloise, and welcome :-) Even if it went bad, I like to have dipped a bit on it; now I know more about myself, and know that I don’t have slave blood, even if I find erotic to play dominant or submissive roles from a little while; well, not to play, to be. See, I can even tag myself as a topping switch! I’ve learned a lot! *smiles warmly*.
And yes, the world is full of jerks; mainly due selfishness, I think. Btw, I really, really have to remember it, “dull as ditchwater”, what a wonderfull, usefull phrase!
Encore, it is interesting to see Eloise’s comment and yours, side by side. The first centered in the long term, emotional side, and the second in the social and playfull aspects of it. That’s why I insisted on that I was only telling my story, not analyzing BDSM… it is clear that there are as many tipes of relations as people involved, all of them valid if they work *smiles*.
London, you are sooooo right about d/s!
I have tried it I don’t know how many times with many different doms, and I always come to the same conclusion as you: fun at first, but eventually becomes boring.
I have basically given up on d/s. I have lots of great lovers in SL, so why limit myself? :)
Welcome, Diannah, I am sorry I took so much to answer, but I forgot to check the comments this morning :-p.
As I can see, there should be possible to have multiple relations without interfering between them; it seems you are having them, and happily (btw, did you say “have lots of great lovers” and “why limit myself” at this blog? I am sure you will soon receive a lot of IMs from nice, horny readers :-)
But yes, probably is harder when D/s is involved, given the more, how to say it, definite nature of the relation? Since there is a dominant partner, maybe it is easier that it ends in a kind of exclusivity.