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Exploring BDSM:
Contents
1 EXPLORING BDSM: INTRODUCTION
What is BDSM?
2 EXPLORING BDSM: CONSENT IN BDSM
Consent Styles In BDSM
Affirmative Consent or Expressed Consent
Conditions of Consent
Some Notes on Learning When You’re New
State of Mind & Consent
Consent Culture
3 EXPLORING BDSM: SAFEWORDS
Universal Safe Words
Choosing a Safe Word
Safe Signals
How to React to a Safe Word
Discomfort Around Safe Words
4 EXPLORING BDSM: NEGOTIATION
Limits
Negotiation Style
What Should We Negotiate?
5 EXPLORING BDSM: ROLES IN BDSM
General Roles
Power Exchange Roles
Play Oriented Roles
Community Specific Roles
Kink Specific Roles
Sexual Play
Animal & Pet Play
Other Roles
6 EXPLORING BDSM: WARM-UPS IN BDSM PLAY
Warm Up & Bottom/Top Space
The Point of Warm-Ups
Pre-Scene Rituals
7 EXPLORING BDSM: AFTERCARE
Drop
Types of Aftercare
8 EXPLORING BDSM: PUNISHMENT VS FUNISHMENT
9 EXPLORING BDSM: TYPICAL FIRST TIME MISTAKES (AND HOW TO AVOID THEM)
Too Many Things at Once
Frenzy
Overconfidence
No Confidence
Having a Script
Being Unprepared
Not Enough Communication
Not Checking In or Communicating in Scene
Sky High Expectations
Kink as a Competition or Race to Extreme Play
Not Communicating After a Scene
Using Booze or Recreational Drugs to Calm Nerves
Not Understanding What You’re Getting Into
10 EXPLORING BDSM: EXPLORING YOUR FANTASIES USING THIS BOOK
11 EXPLORING IMPACT & PAIN PLAY: SAFETY
The Best Parts to Play On
Good, With a But...
Areas You Should Avoid Until You Know More
No Way, No How
General Safety Issues
Play Safe
12 EXPLORING IMPACT & PAIN PLAY: CHECKLIST
13 EXPLORING IMPACT & PAIN PLAY: SCENE CREATION & IDEAS
impact & pain play specific safety concerns
Planning Your Scene
What Can We Learn?
Overcoming Childhood Programming
14 EXPLORING IMPACT & PAIN PLAY: SCENE REVIEW
Impact & Pain Play Specific Aftercare
Reviewing the Scene
15 EXPLORING SENSATION PLAY: CHECKLIST
16 EXPLORING SENSATION PLAY: SCENE CREATION AND IDEAS
A Note on Wax Play
Sensation Play Specific Safety Concerns
Planning Your Scene
What Can We Learn?
17 EXPLORING SENSATION PLAY: AFTERCARE AND SCENE REVIEW
Sensation Play Specific Aftercare
Reviewing the Scene
18 EXPLORING BONDAGE: BONDAGE SAFETY
Physical Safety in Bondage
Emotional Safety
19 EXPLORING BONDAGE: CHECKLIST
20 EXPLORING BONDAGE: SCENE CREATION AND IDEAS
Bondage Specific Safety Concerns
Planning Your Scene
What Can We Learn?
Panic While Bound
21 EXPLORING BONDAGE: AFTERCARE AND SCENE REVIEW
Bondage Specific Aftercare
Reviewing the Scene
22 EXPLORING SEXUALITY & SEXUAL TABOO: ETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY
A Note on Cheating
Sexual Monogamy, Poly Play
Mono/Poly
Polyamory
Open Relationships
Other Non-Monogamous Relationship Styles
Jealousy and Compersion
Non-Monogamy as Fantasy Only
Considerations for Negotiation
23 Exploring Sexuality & Sexual Taboo: Checklist
24 Exploring Sexuality & Sexual Taboo: Scene Creation and Ideas
Gender & BDSM
Sexual Taboo Specific Safety Concerns
Planning Your Scene
What Can We Learn?
Overcoming Sex Negative Programming
25 Exploring Sexuality & Sexual Taboo: Aftercare and Scene Review
Sexual Taboo Specific Aftercare
Sexual Taboo Scene Review
26 Exploring Role Play: Checklist
27 Exploring Role Play: Scene Creation and Ideas
Role Play Specific Safety Concerns
Planning Your Scene
What We Can Learn
Feeling Silly
28 Exploring Role Play: Aftercare and Scene Review
29 Exploring Humiliation Play: Situational vs Personal
But Why?
Situational Humiliation
Personal Humiliation
Intensely Personal
30 Exploring Humiliation Play: Checklist
31 Exploring Humiliation Play: Scene Creation and Ideas
Humiliation Specific Safety Concerns
Planning Your Scene
What Can We Learn?
32 Exploring Humiliation Play: Aftercare and Scene Review
Humiliation Specific Aftercare
Reviewing the Scene
33 EXPLORING PROTOCOL AND POWER EXCHANGE: POWER EXCHANGE RELATIONSHIPS AND RULES
Bedroom Only D/s
24/7
Total Power Exchange
Who Holds the Power?
Archetypes in D/s
Key Values When Starting A D/s Relationship
First Steps into Power Exchange
Creating Rules
34 EXPLORING PROTOCOL & POWER EXCHANGE: CREATING PROTOCOLS FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIP
What is a Protocol?
Types of Protocol
Which Protocols Work for You?
What Level of Protocol?
35 EXPLORING POWER EXCHANGE AND PROTOCOL: CHECKLIST
36 EXPLORING POWER EXCHANGE AND PROTOCOL: SCENE CREATION AND IDEAS
Power Exchange and Protocol Specific Safety Concerns
Preparing Your Scene
What Can We Learn?
37 EXPLORING POWER EXCHANGE AND PROTOCOL: AFTERCARE AND SCENE REVIEW
Scene Review
38 EXPLORING TABOO & EDGE PLAY: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
Taboo Play
Edge Play
Edgier Edge Play
39 EXPLORING TABOO & EDGE PLAY: CHECKLIST
40 EXPLORING TABOO & EDGE PLAY: SAFETY
Taboo Safety
Edge Play Safety
41 EXPLORING TABOO & EDGE PLAY: EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR ADVANCED PLAY
42 CREATING AMAZING SCENES
Setting the Mood
Setting the Scene
The Element of Surprise
The Structure of a Scene
Aftercare
Combining Elements
Creativity
Glossary
ABOUT MORGAN THORNE
CONNECT WITH MORGAN
OTHER TITLES BY MORGAN THORNE
COMING IN 2018
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