Status Updates From The Deep Psychology of BDSM...

“Incidentally, the word chattel has a telling etymology: it evolved as a derivative of cattle, which came from the Latin word for head, caput. The same Latin root led to the word capitalism.”

“For many kinksters, the play space is shadow space, a zone where the unknown images of the deep psyche are invited to emerge and present their truth. That truth often occurs as self-discovery and sometimes as troubling revelation. Your personal shadow may confront you with the pleasure you feel in your sadism or your masochism as something within you that is real and vital”

“On a larger social level, the Shadow is using BDSM to bring forth the difficult truths of our collective nature: despite what we would like to believe about ourselves and our society, at times, we are cruel, we are destructive, we enjoy inficting suffering”