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BDSM Exposed - Society’s Secret Subculture
Posted on September 29, 2010, under Uncategorized.
BDSM can be described as a subculture or alternative lifestyle choices for people with particular tastes toward bondage, discipline, fetish, kink, and sado masochism culminating in consensual power play, pain and pleasure by its participants to enhance an erotic relationship. The term BDSM literally means: bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism.
The dynamics of a BDSM relationship are characterised by its participants adopting the consensual roles of slave or submissive, and surrendering themselves to the domination of a Mistress or Master for erotic gratification between both parties. It is important to emphasise however, that there is a widely recognised and respected code of conduct for activities undertaken within the realms of BDSM and sado masochistic play which is “safe, sane and consensual” at all times during a scene. The basic principles of BDSM require that it be performed by responsible partners, of their own free will and in a safe way which means that everything is based on safe, rational and consensual behaviour of all parties. This mutual consent highlights a clear legal and ethical distinction between BDSM and crimes such as sexual assault or domestic violence.
BDSM encompasses a broad spectrum of activities such as bondage, discipline, slave training, spanking, CBT, nipple torture, electro torture, anal play, strapon, fisting, humiliation, spanking, corporal punishment, slapping, spitting, needle play, hot wax, forced feminisation, sissy slut training, water sports, foot worship, stiletto worship, boot worship, trampling, mummification, to name a few.
Classically, some of the props of the performance are gags, whips, crops, paddles, ropes, cuffs, collars, straight jackets, straps and hoods, and indeed the Dominatrix or Master being the ultimate tool and facilitator of the kinky scenario.
Until the mid-nineties, the BDSM and fetish subcultures were still largely underground communities, however social acceptance swiftly escalated due to the prevalence of material available via the world wide web. It seems the internet has revolutionized our sex lives and provided us the luxury of exploring our darkest desires in the privacy of our own homes with downloadable BDSM, fetish and femdom movies at our fingertips.
These domination and femdom themed movies are likely to portray men and women experiencing various forms of bondage, discipline, punishment and torture and being consensually “forced” to endure submission, humiliation or sexual slavery by a femdom or master applying various methods of torture, punishment and discipline. Oh and yes, if you’re wondering, statistics show that a lot of people like it. Whether they are physically on the receiving end from their adored masochist or satisfying their individual fetish and kinks by watching BDSM, femdom and fetish movies, chances are there are a lot more people aroused by this secret world than they would openly admit.
The internet also paved the way for like-minded people to communicate not only locally, but world wide which in turn triggered an explosion of interest and knowledge of BDSM, kink, fetish and S & M. In addition, there has also been an explosive demand for traditional sex shops and online adult toy companies to stock fetish toys and fetish fashion, offering leather, latex, rubber and PVC.
Fortunately, the blossoming of websites offering BDSM movies has been a godsend for those curious, shy little creatures with no means of fulfilling their desire for slave training and servitude in the real world enabling them to explore their inner slave. Now they can download a session with an international BDSM Mistress and take all the punishment their little heart desires at a safe distance without those little telltale torture marks that tell their partner they have a penchant for a Femdom Mistress.
Sphere: Related ContentWhat is Abstract Art?
Posted on September 29, 2010, under Uncategorized.
Abstract Art is a wide movement in American painting that showed up during the late forties and was a predominant trend in Western painting throughout the fifties. The premier American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko. Others were Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner, Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Elaine de Kooning, and Jack Tworkov. The majority of them worked, lived, or had their work shown in New York City.
Despite the fact that it is the common designation, Abstract Expressionism is not the proper title of the works created by the aforementioned artists. In actual fact, the movement comprised various different painterly styles varying in both skill and quality of application. Despite this area of difference, Abstract Expressionist paintings also possess some broad characteristics. They are primarily abstract — that is to say, they consist of forms which were not taken from the real world.
They furthermore display limitless, spontaneous, and unique emotional expression, and they show vast freedom of technical skill and procedure to attain this goal, with a special importance focused on the use of the variable physical texture of paint to evoke expressive qualities (like, sensuousness, dynamism, violence, mystery, lyricism). They place the same importance on the unstudied and intuitive use of paint in a method of psychological improvisation in the manner of the automatism of the Surrealists, with the comparable aim of finding the force of the creative unconscious in art. They exhibit the conscious abandonment of conventionally structured composition formed by application of discrete and segregable areas and their replacement with a unique and unified, unchanged field, network, or other image that exists in unstructured space. Lastly, the paintings fill sizeable canvases to give the aforementioned visual aspects both monumentality and engrossing might.
The premier Abstract Expressionists had two notable forerunners: Arshile Gorky, who painted esoteric biomorphic shapes using a free, delicately linear and liquid paint method; and Hans Hofmann, who made use of dynamic and harshly textured brushwork in his abstract but conventionally constructed paintings. Another significant influence on nascent Abstract Expressionism was the arrival on the American shores in the late 1930s and early forties of a host of Surrealists and other important European avant-garde artists escaping from the Nazis in Europe. The European artists forcefully impressed the native New York City painters and privileged for them an intimate understanding of the vanguard of European painting. The Abstract Expressionist movement itself is generally considered as having commenced with the paintings done by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in the late 40s and early 50s.
With regard to the variety of styles in the Abstract Expressionist movement, three broad approaches can be isolated. First was action painting which is signified by a loose, speedy, dynamic, or powerful handling of paint in sweeping or slashing brushstrokes, and in applications largely dictated by chance, such as dripping or spilling the paint right onto the canvas. Pollock first practiced action painting by dripping commercial paints onto a raw canvas to create intricate and tangled skeins of paint into thrilling and suggestive linear patterns. De Kooning employed highly vigorous and expressive brushstrokes building up richly coloured and textured images. Kline utilised powerful, sweeping black strokes onto the white canvas for building starkly monumental forms.
The middle approach within Abstract Expressionism is represented by a host of varied styles starting from the more lyrical, delicate imagery and fluid shapes in paintings by Guston and Frankenthaler to the visibly structured, forceful, almost calligraphic artworks of Motherwell and Gottlieb.
The final and least emotionally expressive ground was that of Rothko, Newman, and Reinhardt. These painters had large areas or dimensions of flat colour and thin diaphanous paint to find quiet, subtle, almost meditative results. The premier colour-field painter was Rothko; many of his paintings consist of large-scale combinations of soft-edged, solidly coloured rectangular blocks that tend to shine and resonate.
Abstract Expressionism cast a important impact on both the American and European art styles during the 50s. Indeed, the movement sparked the transition of the creative centre of modern painting from Paris to New York City in the postwar years. During the period of the 50s, the the movement’s younger participants increasingly came under the style of the colour-field painters. By the sixties, those practitioners had generally drifted away from the highly charged expressiveness of the action painters.
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