Masters and Slaves

People who play at S&M and D/s can’t help but laugh at the conventional world’s stereotypes.

All three of the housemates laughed at the notion that engaging in the BDSM lifestyle 24/7 means one of them is constantly kneeling in obeisance to another, or they’re cosseting and brutalizing each other, as some in the vanilla world apparently believe.

“People would have rugburns all over their knees, and you know, it’s humorous,” Miles said. “The perception is that every single day of the week somebody like Kimmy would be getting a beating or a cutting or flogging or a single-tailing or a waxing or needleplay.

“That’s not real,” he said. “When we play, there’s a healing period. There’s after-care that must be administered, nine times out of 10 by myself, to make sure that she’s healing properly—that if there’s a cutting, is she being properly cleaned, is it healing properly.