As those of you that are regular readers of this blog know, I like to read news on a regular basis from what used to be a trusted and respected 4th estate establishment: Fairfax media, notably The Age, as it’s got my local news as well. However, due to syndication and the need to save money on actually creating content, as well as creating content that’s simply going to get reader’s attention and hopefully backlinks (like I am providing here), they often go for really mundane and stupid articles from time to time.

Here’s something that’s a shocker: Suddenly porn is the new porn! (more…)

This could not have come at a worse time for me. I’m already into my credit card a couple grand, and they’re closing down… So if I want the Tshirts, before some eBay hawks decide to rape the production line, order a shitload, and then sell them at a 100% markup next month, I need to buy some now.

What the fuck am I talking about? Tshirt Hell is closing by Feb 10th.

So I’m quickly getting myself a few shirts (shown below), and I recommend you do the same if there’s anything you want… because after Febuary 10th, the only place to get them will be from rip off merchants on eBay, or schmucks that just rip the designs off and stick them up on Cafe Press. Anyway, this is what I’m going to be getting.

And then there’s the Tshirt I’d love to get, except that I don’t think it’d go down well at family dinners, what with some relatives being survivors of the Holocaust, and others being Anzacs.

So, as it seems, S&M can go wrong for people in more than a simple Michael Hutchinsonsnosnonss choke-yourself-to-death-on-the-back-of-a-door kind of way.

Apparently a few people got into an active S&M based relationship with a particular dominatrix in New York, and some people couldn’t take the rivalry.

So, jokes about “getting pwned” aside, I was always under the impression that S&M relationships, that weren’t romantically based, were always more about dominance and effectively ‘owning’ the person who is supposedly the Sub (even though we know that in ap rofessional situation the Suub is actually the one in control of things). Furthermore, if you’re paying someone for that service, then surely you’re merely one client among many, and can’t actually expect “fidelity”… whatever that means in this particular instance.

If you are the Sub in this instance, the ‘owned’ party, you can’t really expect that your Dom is going to do things the way you want them to be done, except when it comes to hurting you in the way you like. So where precisely do you get off, if you excuse the pun, on shooting the Dom’s actual boyfriend, and then forcing your Dom intho the boot of the car? That really doesn’t sound terribly submissive to me, and this totally disregards the fact that you’re not exactly getting fidelity for a paid service… I mean, I don’t really expect my Cable repair guy to only make sure my cable’s ok, and he’s a pretty attractive guy!

Or maybe I’m just missing something here?

More to the point, what sort of car in New York doesn’t come equipped with one of these nowadays?