Just been thinking about last post and stuff around power exchange and living that way. It is alien to me, but I see it as just a choice or compulsion as powerful as mine re spanking.

There is a lovely concept of 'your kink, not my kink, but OK' that I like. One of the disappointments for me in Spankoworld was that people with a kink could be so judgemental. If a spanko doesn't fancy hand-caning, face-slapping, nipple-clamps, hair-pulling or bondage - Fine - but there is sometimes a tendency to disapprove.

It seems a bit bizarre for someone who gets their rocks off slapping a bare arse (or gets emotional satisfaction bending over for the cane) to then decide that face-slapping is an outrage. Interestingly these alternative activities are not just sneered at by some, but can be accompanied by scientific proof of how much more dangerous they are than spanking.

To me much of BDSM (bondage, domination, submission, sadism, masochism etc) is like rock-climbing or eating sushi - not something I can imagine wanting to do, but so what?