How desire, arousal and sex are used for control and service in Dominance/submission — BDSM and sexual desire BDSM is not always sexual but, for most of its practitioners, is an essential part of their sexuality. For sexual masochists, spankings, bondage and different forms of erotic pain are a big turn-on. Sometimes they are even required for them to get aroused. Likewise, inflicting pain elicits sexual arousal in…

You too can make good money by protecting our glorious Russian Fatherland from Western aggression! — Why are you wasting your time writing in Medium for peanuts, when you can make real money helping our Russian nation fight against Western propaganda? In fact, many of the most successful writers in Medium already do that. And it isn’t by chance that they also have the highest numbers…

Tom Cooper and Stefan Korshak are my favorite Medium writers about the Ukraine War. — I have been watching the War in Ukraine with total fascination. I am 65 and I have lived in Spain, France and the USA, so I have seen a bunch of historical events: The Vietnam War and its end. The end of the Franco dictatorship and the transition of Spain…

Scientific evidence debunks the belief that vegans have healthier sex lives — This article is in response to This Is Why Vegans Have Better Sex, by Christopher Kokoski. Claim 1: vegans have a reputation for being good lovers — a belief made up by PETA “But what you may not know is that vegans also have a reputation for being great in bed.” Christopher Kokoski. Creating this “reputation” was the objective of an infamous ad campaign by PETA that…

Or wipe out all life, or drive humans to extinction, but it could destroy our civilization — Let’s drop the hyperbole and start thinking rationally. To help, I classify doomsday scenarios into five types of catastrophes. Then I examine how likely is each one. Type 1 catastrophe — The Earth is destroyed When doomsayers cry “the Earth is in danger!” surely they don’t mean it literally. I hope they are not that stupid.

Some Dominance-submission practices control orgasms by suppressing them or by triggering them at the whim of the dominant — Permission to orgasm The most basic method of orgasm control is to establish that the submissive cannot orgasm unless she is given permission by the dominant. The submissive will beg for release for a while, until the dominant finally allows it. The permission could be given on the condition that the submissive does…

Caning is one of the practices most appreciated by connoisseurs of BDSM — Caning consists of hitting the buttocks with a special stick called a cane. This causes a particularly erotic kind of pain. It is practiced following a strict ritual that comes from traditional British schools and has disciplinary connotations. Caning is quite old. It was one of the favorite practices of…

Sexual shame seems to be part of human nature, but its causes are mysterious. — The book of Genesis tells us that when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they felt suddenly ashamed of being naked. “Then the eyes of both [Adam and Eve] were opened and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed…

Here are some of the best articles I have read about the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine — Eyewitness accounts Let’s start with two eyewitness accounts of the tragedy in Mariupol. They should be required reading for everyone. The first is from Mykhailo Pasichnyi, a surgeon who worked day and night to care for the injury and the dying in a hospital in Mariupol: I Haven’t Seen Injuries This Severe in My 38-Year Career as a Surgeon Scenes from a military hospital in Mariupolmedium.com