Welcome to BED, where you can find educators and education to entertain and enlighten 24/7. We’ve got so many great things going on behind the scenes, but the most visible changes this summer are our content expansions to the BED Libraries.
Gloria and SkyeWriter have been busy reaching out to important voices in the BDSM/Fetish and Alt.Sex Communities to build out our Reading Library in significant and meaty ways. Dr. David Ley’s excellent and informative article on the Cuckolding Fetish launched a new section called Teachable Topic Resources. Meanwhile, your Educatrix has been researching and curating visual gems from BDSM history to amuse and delight you.
I’m excited to announce 20 new BDSM illustrations from our venerable past were just added, some of them reaching back into the early 19th century. Paintings, drawings, sketches, and cartoons that chronicle how people perceived BDSM long before it was called BDSM. They precede the cultural awareness that people like us not only existed as an identity but that they were romping and enjoying the hell out of many of the same things that we do today! Spankings, whippings, bondage, and femdoms — they were all there and now they are here too.
See for yourself with the 20 new additions to our Visual Library
Also new for today, I donated 2 of my most popular blog posts to BED. Our Reading Librarian has a few words about those:
From SkyeWriter
Today we’re adding two amazing articles to the Library, courtesy of our own Gloria Brame!
One is an article on developing your personal skills and growing your own authenticity–something that is equally important to both beginners and those who are more experienced. Don’t miss the practice exercises at the end!
The second is an article on increasing and maintaining community well-being by eliminating the spread of false and cliche-based messages about BDSM. This one is particularly important, I think, as it’s important for those of us in the community to be our own best form of representation.
