What do you think of this photo?

Question

http://hiphop.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/janet.jpg

http://celeb.wohoo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/janet-on-the-cover-of-black-book-2.jpg

What is the 1st thing that comes to your mind when you see these photos? What do they remind you of? Were they photographed in a degrading fashion or not? Do they relate at all to BDSM lifestyles?

Answer 1

beautiful.

Answer 2

BDSM is a complex acronym derived from the terms bondage and discipline (B&D), dominance and submission (D&S, D/S, or Ds), sadism and masochism (S&M or SM).

Believe it or not it has very little to with actual s*x, but is more based on Trust and bringing one out of their internal shell.

The gal in the cage reminds me of the Go Go dancers back in the late 60's. Some wore black leather too while some wore hardly anything at all..

The gal in the mask .. well, again, would you trust someone to strap one on you like this, and drop the key in their pocket.. and they walk away..?

Nothing is degrading here - unless no one agreed to it..!

People who participate in this lifestyle are Dom's or Sub's.. A lot are also "in training" from a Dom. Again, everything is based on trust and letting go. To be tied up in some of the ways they can is imposable to get out of. You may be naked and spread eagled on a board, chair or bed. You are never sexually molested (but some groups do) and never hurt. Never..! And NEVER with out some kind of plan or permission. Safe words are also used here, meaning saying RED is a sign to stop - now..!

While it does have a level of pain involved, there is spanking with a wood paint stirrer stick or ping pong paddles. Light flogging with crops or leather floggers and maybe sometimes hot wax dripped on places of bare skin, all calculated to release endorphins while NOT inducing pain.

The hot wax for example, there are candles with wax that is NOT as hot as other candles. Any ol' candle can burn the bejesus out of soft sensitive bare skin. DON'T grab any ol' candle and drip it on your self or a friend.. Then there is another secret too, holding the candle 12 to 18 inches over the target allows the wax to cool a bit before making contact with the skin.

Some will go as far as being - collared. In the BDSM world this is like someone giving you a ring.. You are now accepting them as your Dom and you are their Sub. They "own" you now. They may even take you to some social functions on a leash and tell you to do - things... Nothing that would ever hurt, but some may call degrading (and this is one place where many get the degrading part from). When you go to their house, you become the Submissive one and do as they say.

It is a VERY deep world and the number of alternative life styles out there is amazing. Many do no harm and only a few get the headlines because they are on the outside fringes of society and DO too many crazy things that get attention.

Like in the movie - Wild Hogs - many "Bikers" by week days are doctors, lawyers, fire and police men, construction, etc.. but on the weekends they put on their leathers and fire up the Harley's and go ridin'.. Many here are like this too.. However, some DO live it 24/7/365.

Bob - Tucson - just a outsider, observer and photographer for some at the DD.

Answer 3

The second one is HOT! That's definitely a BDSM photo. I love it :)