Author: Benevolent Goddess

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Red Flags

This Saturday, 11.19.22 at 3PM ET, we’re going to talk about a sensitive subject, Relationship Red Flags, and when it’s time to get out of a relationship for your own safety and sanity. In BDSM, especially, some things we do are parts of play but some are just not okay. Let’s talk about the myths […]

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BDSM Long Distance

Are you yearning? Are you pining? Does your love live so far away that it seems like galaxies separate you and the bondage and spankings and mummification and sensory play and that violet wand you bought and the tawse he has and the CNC and pet play and Gorean TPE, and the… you know… that […]

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The BDSMGarden 2022 Contest

To celebrate the sixth anniversary of The BDSM Garden at http://www.thebdsmgarden.com, we’re holding a winter contest! This contest encompasses ANY art form!  Fiction Writing, BDSM Articles, Poetry, Art, Photography, or Music. Your theme is Cold Chains. Your work must contain elements of BDSM and Winter. This year’s contest begins on November 13, 2022 and ends […]

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Sadism vs. Societal Expectation

Sadism vs. Societal Expectation, by Sid – HedonisticDesires. Saturday, 3:00P.M. ET on the Garden’s Discord chat, http://thebdsmgarden.com/efiction/viewpage.php?page=chat Focusing on the difficulties that a Sadist faces from social implications and expectations to the risks we take on while we do what we do and how that can cause some difficulties in rationalizing doing what we do. […]

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Aftercare & Drop

Wednesday, 11/9 9:00 PM ET Tonight, we’ll have a chit-chat about Aftercare and Drop. Because these two things are so often talked about in relation to “sweet, delicate, helpless” submissives, we’re going to make sure that we also talk about, as @Sid calls them, “Those Who have no Souls”, Dominants.