I was originally going to write an essay about the importance of this November's election here in the US, about the need for people to study the issues and vote according to their conscience. I was going to ask you to support candidates who support your sexual freedoms.
But, while some sexual freedoms may be at stake in this election, I don't think with my dick, and I don't vote with my cock either. And, for fuck's sake, what good would it do to try and tell you, my dear reader, which candidates I support? Who the hell is going to base their precious vote on information found at a BDSM blog anyway?
Nobody.
Just remember this . . .
When the spectacle of the 2012 Olympic games is complete, network television will focus (albeit briefly) on the two party's nominating conventions, where we will be assailed with lots and lots of propaganda. And, while political commercials are already omnipresent here in Iowa (a swing state in most Presidential elections these days) - the real deluge will begin after Labor Day.
Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda, it's going to be everywhere, almost inescapable. It's up to you what to do with it, or about it, even deciding to ignore it all entirely is a choice and a statement in it's own right. I plan to watch a lot of Netflix this fall, I'm catching up on a number of series I never saw because I never bothered to get cable for my TV until I got cable for my computer.
My mind's already made up, and ignoring all the huffing and puffing over the next three months might make it so I won't be throwing up before election day from internalizing all the bullshit we are induced to read, hear and view. However you decide to deal with it all is up to you . . . everybody needs to find their own mechanisms to cope with the madness.
But please do endure the madness somehow, and please do vote, it's both a right and a responsability!
In case you hadn't noticed, my dear reader, there is a new poll on top of the sidebar here at our humble blog. Considering that I'm writing an ongoing series of postings about gags, it should come as no great surprise that this poll is about . . . . (no drum roll necessary) . . . gags.
I'll never get tired of gags, but if you are like me, you are probably tired of polls right now. Everywhere we go here in the US these days we are bombarded with poll numbers, polling phone calls, straw polls, perhaps even a poll tax, not to mention the dreaded exit poll coming out of your voting place.
The only consolation I can offer, in asking you to participate in yet another poll, is that a poll about gags isn't going to feature any debates, the candidates are mute! There aren't going to be any nasty commercials either, you might say that a "gag order" has been placed on the entire subject.
And, using our own unique Samadhi House rules for polling, you can choose as many "candidates" as you might like. Vote for one gag, two gags, or even every gag if you wish.
As they say in Chicago, "Vote Early and Vote Often" . . .
No we aren't "rocking the vote" but I promise to give Serafina some rockin' and rollin' a lil later!
a. Informal To alter (a computer program):hacked her text editor to read HTML.
b. To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization:hacked the firm's personnel database.
2. Informal
a. To write or refine computer programs skillfully.
b. To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network:hacked into the company's intranet.
The Scorpion's 9 thin neoprene tresses cause extreme "sensation" Photo by Gillian of Adam and Gillian
I'd like to start this post with an apology for anyone who might have gotten any odd mail, or warnings, from Tumblr or Serafina's email, perhaps even this site. Apparently Serafina was hacked by an individual who uses malicious code in a Tumblr page to elicit users to enter their email address and password.
Serafina's very sorry this has happened!
To the best of our knowledge Google, Facebook, and other services shut the intrusion down and warned her immediately. All of her accounts have been secured and are now again under her complete (and almost exclusive - Master knows her passwords ) use and control.
When Serafina feels as though she has let me down, she's quite self punishing. I almost always reserve corporal punishment (CP) like spanking and paddling for exclusive use in a scene between she and I; meaning in our household CP is not used in a punitive fashion for mistakes or misbehavior.
I don't believe in spanking children for misbehavior either, by the way, it's an odd quirk of mine I guess. I believe in more inventive forms of discipline, where somehow the punishment fits the crime. I look to make discipline reinforce the lesson I'm about to teach.
However, I'm thinking a bit of corporal discipline is in order, simply to help reinforce in her mind that one must exercise extraordinary caution when navigating the Internet. I think this needs to be a lesson she remembers . . .
Since her mistake involved the readers of this blog, I thought it was only fitting for the blog's reader's to help decide her fate! There's a poll on the top right of our sidebar where reader's will get to decide what kind of punishment Serafina receives.
Long horsehair flogging. Horsehair can be very sensuous, in the beginning. The longer and harder the horsehair flogger is used, the more it tends to make skin itch, then burn. I've heard it described as leaving a submissive teetering between begging for it to stop, and begging for more.
Her first real caning. I have three new canes on the way from a wonderful couple who produce outstanding toys. They will arrive before the poll concludes.
All of Master's paddles! I have two new paddles on the way from the same source as the canes, adding more variety to the already extensive collection of paddles and slappers this punishment would deliver to Serafina's backside.
10 lashes from "the Scorpion" - The Scorpion is pictured at the start of this post. Here's how the Cat is described by it's maker: Scorpion - Severe -9 tresses, 26” long - Eight thin, round tresses surround the one longer center tress -- which gives this sting-y Black Rubber Cat its name. This “stinger” tress creates a second point of contact at each stroke, which, as often as not, is a “wrap” -- a stroke that wraps around the body in a “crack the whip” fashion, increasing the power of the impact. With the idea that owners will trim the center tress to suit their own styles, we put a bit more length in this tress than, strictly speaking, may be called for. For the record, I've never gotten around to trimming that center tress, oooops my bad!
Everything Master can offer. - This is probably the most intense option, although none of the individual elements (cane, paddle, strap, flogger, etc) would be used for long, the sheer number of different floggers, crops, paddles, straps would ensure a long and exhausting scene for everyone involved. For instance she'd likely feel the full sting of the scorpion a couple times before moving to another alternative.
Nothing - poor girl suffers enough. - If this option is picked, I'd honor it of course, but where's the fun in choosing this option?
It's simple really, Serafina and I get our individual votes, but beyond that her fate is in the hands of our readers. Her vote was the first, and she had the single stipulation that she was not allowed to select #6, but from here until the poll closes next Saturday at Midnight CST, she can only await the fate that you, our dear readers, will inflict as her punishment.
You know what they say in Chicago - "Vote Early and Vote Often!"
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