About D/s ARts
by Tatu
What does D/s mean? "D" = Dominance and "s" = submission. One partner plays the role of the Dominant who is consensually given control, to lovingly lead and control the submissive's behaviors. The other, the submissive, allows his or herself to be controlled and Dominated. All of this of course is by mutual consent, with established boundaries. We call this kind of erotic play - "Safe, Sane and Consensual". What Do We mean by ARts? It is our belief that life, sensuality, love and sex are to be embraced as an art. There is a certain beauty to this physical creation we call the human being. We should never be ashamed of our bodies or who we are sexually or intimately. We should embrace the sensuality, the emotions, the feelings and celebrate the loveliness of our personal ART that we create in our intimate relationships. First published as a website with the theme of D/s (Dominant and submissive) roleplay in December1995 and started as a Scene Calendar with just a few safety articles, the site grew and grewand went through several evolutions through the years. The name "D/s ARts" and the Oriental motif for a D/s related website design has been a part of this website from the very beginning in 1995, primarlily in the Rope ARt section. In early 1999, I started expanding on that theme for the entire website, but the launch of the revisions had to be put on hold in the Spring of 2000, as life took some very sad turns. Alot of D/s today as expressed on the vast majority of websites is seen as a hard cold painful S&M and is expressed in the fantasy of dark dungeons and castles. They are inspired by the Marquis deSade imagery full of European style and fantasy. There is nothing wrong with that, it is simply not D/s as we experience it, nor as experienced by millions of people who practice a D/s everyday in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Being a student of eastern culture and philosophy since college 30 years ago, it was easy to see a very beautiful and natural D/s Art in the oriental cultures. After all, the Japanese seem to have the uncanty ability to make an art out of just about everything. So D/s to this author where his intimate relationships are concerned are developed with a sensual and eastern bent.
No one was doing a D/s website with that theme and with my interest in Rope
Art and the beautiful expression of it from the eastern
While some may call D/s "kinky" or "naughty", I am especially fond of the term coined by Gloria Brame, "Different Loving".
Probably most of you reading this have fantasized or even participated in a little "kinky" play. Perhaps you have used an ordinary silk scarf from the closet to blindfold your partner while you ravished her body, and she went wild under the anticipation of the unexpected. Maybe your lover playfully spanked you on the ass, you felt a strange enjoyment of the sensation between your legs, and unexplainably you found yourself all wet. Ever bought a pair of those handcuffs at the lingerie store? OF course you have, or fantasized about it many times. Well if you answered yes to any of the above, congratulations, you are already a little kinky, and like to love a little differently. What we hope to do here is inspire you to play at the "Art of D/s" and find a renewal or perhaps even for the first time a powerful sensual energy and focus to your relationships and personal physical pleasures. D/s Spirituality We also explore D/s using a little "eastern bent" which is not typical in the world of BDSM. We use some some eastern philosophy and practice with our D/s as the ancient wisdom adapts well to what we do in our fantasy play, recognizing the spiritual component , the powerful energy flows to who we are as human beings. Being a man with a sense of spirituality about him, D/s here is expressed with that spiritual connection of the spirit with the body. Rejected are the many western philosophies that spirituality is only as one separates themselves from the "evils" of the "sinful flesh" and its pleasures. Believing god made us wonderful feeling beings, and the physical body, its pleasures, and sensuality are all creations of god, we affirm that all of this good, not bad or sinful. To the eastern mind, the spirit, mind and body are inseparable, not 3 separate parts, and because we are one total being, the sensual pleasures of one's physical being are directly related to our emotional, and our spiritual facets of who we are. Physical pleasure therefore should be "celebrated" as a spiritual experience. We sincerely hope you like the new look. Much, much more is to come. Again, as always the commitment to free support and education for a Safe Sane and Consensual world of fantasy play is the primary goal.
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D/s Arts is about play and fantasy. It is the fantasy of involving
one's self in the experience of what has been termed, "erotic power
exchange". It is two people who want to enhance
and stimulate their personal lives with adult play. In one sense returning
to the innocence of their childhood, allowing themselves to drop
the inhibitions and trust without shame.
perspective, it
was a natural way for me to take this website.
