SM Journal

I bet empathy can burn hundreds of calories, just like playing chess. Empathy can be depleted. One could do SM like a machine, with prearranged gestures to preserve their energies and disappear behind repetition. I don't do that. One should not approach this line of work without a great deal of empathy. Listening to every breath and word before, during, and after a session. But it can take its toll. A decade ago, a sadist friend of mine stressed that I am a magnet for sadomas

Wax Play, sensation, fetish and confidence.

I raise the whip, watching their body tense, not with fear, but with readiness. The lash falls, and they absorb it, exhale through it, move