BDSM Advice

BDSM advice for consent led exploration, clearer communication, and safer play that still feels thrilling.

Welcome to my BDSM Advice hub. This is a focused sub category within Kinky Sex Advice, built for people who want BDSM specific guidance without getting pulled into every other kink topic on the site. Everything here is written for real relationships, real bodies, and real life, with consent, safety, and emotional care treated as part of the turn on, not an afterthought.

This hub stays tightly focused on BDSM. If you want wider kink topics, beginner friendly kink safety basics across lots of kinks, and play ideas beyond BDSM, head to the main Kinky Sex Advice category.

Most read guides

If you want the quickest route to safer, better BDSM, start with these. They are the pages I would send to a friend who wanted to explore without guesswork.

Start here

If you are curious but nervous, you are in good company. You do not need to be fearless, or experienced, or perfectly confident. You need shared language, clear boundaries, and permission to go slowly. If you want one place to begin, start with my BDSM Beginner’s Guide. It is designed to help you explore safely, without losing the heat of discovery.

Foundations: meaning, safety, boundaries

The best BDSM is built on trust. Trust is built with clarity. Start with consent conversations, negotiation, and boundaries, then build skills and gear from there.

If you only read a handful of posts from this hub, make them those. They are the difference between “we tried it once” and “we built something we can return to”.

Dynamics: Dominant, submissive, switch, FemDom

Power exchange can be playful, tender, intense, romantic, ritualistic, or quietly domestic. It can also be confusing at first, especially if you are trying to work out what role feels natural for you, or how to negotiate one without turning it into a job interview.

If you are curious what care, responsibility, and emotional support can look like inside an ongoing power exchange, you might find my personal perspective helpful: How I Dominate My Slaves.

Play skills: bondage, impact, sensation

This is where many people start, because it is tangible. Rope, restraints, spanking, blindfolds, heat, cold, and all the delicious little ways you can build anticipation. Skill based play is still rooted in consent, pacing, and aftercare, even when you are keeping things light.

If you are deciding what to try first, choose one category of play, keep the first session short, and agree a simple stop signal before you begin. That one decision makes everything feel safer, and often, hotter.

Gear and toys

You do not need a dungeon, but the right gear can make play more comfortable, more controlled, and more confidence boosting. I keep my gear guidance practical, with a focus on making informed choices.

If you are curious about electrical play tools specifically, this guide goes deeper into what they are and how to use them more safely: What is a violet wand? History, safety and kinky uses.

Deeper dives: intense play and erotic control

Some interests carry more emotional weight, more intensity, or more risk, especially if they connect to fear, control, restraint, or humiliation. These topics deserve careful handling, not bravado. If you are exploring anything that could leave you emotionally wobbly afterwards, read first, talk first, and set boundaries before you try it.

Quick reality check: if you are new, these should not be your first experiments. Start with safety principles, limits, and communication, then build up slowly.

Language, culture, and respect

BDSM communities have their own language and values, and learning them can make you feel more at home, more informed, and less likely to stumble into someone else’s boundaries by accident.

Common questions

Do we need a safeword for light play? Often yes. Even a simple traffic light system makes stopping clear and shame free.

How do we talk about limits without killing the mood? Talk outside the bedroom first. Keep it specific, keep it kind, and treat it as foreplay for trust.

What is a red flag in BDSM? Pressure, sulking, ignoring boundaries, mocking a safeword, or pushing you to go faster than you want.

Safe Words and Traffic Lights: How to Say Stop in BDSM

During your explorations of the BDSM world, you may have come across BDSM safewords and traffic lights. What are BDSM safe words, and what do traffic lights have to do with the exciting world of power exchange, kink and fetish?

Female Chastity: How Women Can Explore Orgasm Denial and Erotic Control

Curious about female chastity? This guide explores orgasm denial for women, the appeal of restrictive devices and belts, and how the kink can be enjoyed alone or with a partner.

International Male Chastity Day: Date, Celebration and Devices

As a proud kinkster and huge fan of the chastity fetish in particular, it gives me great pleasure to share details of an official annual celebration of this highly erotic kink. International Male Chastity Day (also known as International Chastity Day) is celebrated on the 15th February* each year.

Bondage Toys Guide: Best Gear for Kinky Play

What can you use to restrain someone (or enjoy being restrained) in bondage? That's where bondage sex toys and bondage accessories come into their own. It helps having some background knowledge of just what's available in terms of bondage equipment, and why it's important to use items specifically designed for bondage rather than any old belt, strap or rope...

Spanking Toys Guide: Implements, Tools and Techniques

Does the mere thought of a raised Dominant hand, or a spanking toy whistling through the air, stir the tendrils of arousal? You might be wondering which spanking tools are best for effective corporal punishment. Welcome to my big spanking toys guide, in which you'll also find links to all our spanking toy reviews.

Bondage Beginner’s Guide: Safe, Sexy Rope Play Tips

Despite Fifty Shades of Grey helping to spotlight the joys of BDSM in the mainstream in recent years, plenty of people have been enjoying the physical, psychological and emotional liberation that the power exchange in D/s role-play offers. Due to the recent sharp rise in mainstream interest, I wanted to share my bondage top tips and advice in this beginner's guide to bondage today. Welcome to my complete bondage 101!

BDSM Beginner’s Guide: How Curious Minds Can Explore Safe, Kinky Fun

The enduring popularity of BDSM cannot be attributed in its entirety to the relatively recent appearance of Fifty Shades Of Grey, no matter how much the media would love for that to be the case. Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism are all power exchange activities, either including sex or entirely and deliberately absent of it, which have been practiced for centuries.

Kinky Punishment: Spanking, Whips, Crops and Canes

I'd like to talk a little more about why we love sexy corporal punishment here today, and how it really hits our spot. Perhaps this intimate revelation will prompt more people out there to accept spanking and similar as being just as 'acceptable' as 'regular' sex antics, instead of mentally filing such habits as perverted, deviant and downright weird.

ElectraStim Sex Toys Guide: How to Use Electrosex Safely

Welcome to this ElectraStim Sex Toys Guide, brought to you by Joanne’s Reviews, an expert in electroplay and a trusted voice in the community. Whether you’re new to electrosex or curious about trying these unique toys, Joanne shares clear, practical advice regarding how to enjoy electrosex toys safely and confidently.

Being Kink Compatible: How to Find BDSM Relationship Harmony

You crave nothing more than her largest strap-on wedged firmly up your ass. She, on the other hand,  insists you spend the day doing the dishes dressed in sissy frills and heels. However, you're not a sissy and she doesn't own any strap on harnesses. How could things have gone so wrong? It's time to talk about kink compatibility in BDSM relationships.

Humiliation Kink: Erotic Objectification Fantasies

Guilty is the wrong word; I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures, as P!nk famously said. I feel weird, and wired, and demanding. I have a high-maintenance imagination. Most notably, I have a private love/hate relationship with humiliating objectification –as a kink and as a popular foundation for my most extreme fantasies.

How I Dominate My Slaves: A Domme’s Perspective

How people perceive my domination, and the reality of it, is something which has fascinated me for some time. You would be amazed at some of the comments directed my way over the years simply for the ways in which I choose to enjoy my natural dominance, as well as how my actively consenting submissives enjoy it, too. Some of these comments are borne from ignorance, some from jealousy, some from malice, and others simply because the person spoke without properly thinking it all through.

Penis Chastity Devices Guide: How to Choose and Use a Cage

Whether you’re looking for your first chastity device, or seeking to add a chastity cage to your *ahem* growing collection, it can be baffling when you realise just how many variants are available. This is particularly the case for lock-up fans who don’t have a Keyholder/Mistress/Top to guide them, and simply wish to explore chastity fetish by themselves. Welcome to my big guide to penis chastity devices!

Forced Orgasms in BDSM: What They Are and Why People Enjoy Them

I love the freedom to touch myself whenever I want –and I make the most of that freedom, as you can see by the thousands of sex toy reviews and erotic articles here on the blog. Chastity is definitely not for me, when I'm the one locked up I mean. How about the flip side of chastity: forced orgasms? There's still the element of external control -but rather than orgasm denial, I would be (consensually, of course) forced to orgasm over and over.

Watersports: The Kinky Guide to Golden Showers

Does mention of watersports conjure up innocent images of surfing and jet skis -or raise a knowing smirk? For the non-vanilla activity, "golden showers" is probably a more familiar term to most thanks to tabloid coverage of various celebrity/political scandals, as well as good old internet porn.
Understanding Adult Babies And The Adult Baby Fetish

ABDL: Inside the Adult Baby Diaper Lovers Fetish

Cards on the table: this is not my kink. Is it yours? As someone with an interest in another area of ageplay, I imagine that the adult baby fetish is viewed as extremely niche and is often misunderstood. Perhaps feared a little –even within the BDSM sphere.

Complete Sensory Deprivation Kink Guide

Ever heard of sensory deprivation? If you have, chances are you’re either up on your psychology* or you’re into bondage. Or both, of course. Sensory deprivation is an enormous turn-on for many in the BDSM scene, but what is it that makes this particular practice so sexy?

Bound To Serve As A Sex Slave

After several months' training, both mental and physical, her slave was able to handle one of her ferocious whippings simply through tears, gritted teeth and with only a few sweary slip-ups. He'd learnt that lesson fast, she thought, her smile widening even further. An extra 5 minutes lashing for every curse he spat in her direction soon had him holding his tongue.

What Is FemDom? Exploring Female Domination in BDSM

What is FemDom? Some would say it's the Marmite of the BDSM scene. Is it the BDSM outsider? Female Domination usually elicits a response firmly on one end of the scale or the other: yes please! or ...um, no thanks.

Dacryphilia: Why Tears and Crying Can Be Sexy

As the barrier crashes down within him, crumbling to reveal his true self, tears then finally begin to form. I see the subtlest glint and can't help wetting my own lips with my tongue in anticipation –in between my incessant tirade, the code to unlock his complete submissive self.