Deviant Path

Live, Love, Create Outside the Box

January 22, 2012
by Luna.admin
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*Erotica* Covered in Ash…..

I really could watch you smoke for hours. As a matter of fact I think I have in the past. There is just something about the whole process that draws me in. From watching you choose which cigar you are got to have. You carefully trimming the end to your liking. Sucking on the end moistening it and watching you light it. The flame high and wide as you dance the cigar over it getting an even lighting. Watching the tobacco catch fire in a glowing ember and fade. Your first couple of puffs are strong and the whole end lights up bright with each intake. I’m hypnotized by the whole process. There is something confident about your stance and your aura when you start to smoke. Like the cigar completes you. Creates a calm and zen in you.

I watch from across the room as you carry on your conversation with someone. I try not to be obvious but something tells me I am failing miserably. A part of me convinced that you are very aware of my gaze. Each draw on your cigar seems long and deliberate. The smoke slowly pouring out of your mouth, your gloved hand flicking away small pieces of ash. I can feel my mouth water and I am practically licking my lips wishing I could taste it. Minute feel like hours as I watch the ash build up on your cigar. Wishing I was closer to you, wishing I was called over to take the ash; to feel it, taste it.

I watch you tap the ash into your leather glove and my heart sinks. There is no ash for me. I sigh deeply and move my attention to another conversation. It’s not until I am fully involved in another conversation do I feel a pull on my shoulder. I move backwards til I am pressed into a wall. I’m face to face with nothing but leather. Even in my tall platform boots am I able to be eye level with you.

“My glove is dirty. Clean it”

Before I can say ‘Yes Sir’ your glove filled with ash is covering my mouth. my mouth can ‘t take it all. My tongue trying to keep up with the force of it but soon the ash is smeared on my mouth down my neck. I take the glove back toward my mouth. the smell of ash and leather mixing in my nostrils sending my head reeling. Your leg wedged between mine is the only that it really keeping me from sinking to the floor.
My eyes are barely able to focus as I look up at you hungry and wanting more. As if on queue my air becomes only smoke as I take in a breath. My legs now shaky as my world becomes a haze.

“You missed some,” You say as you point down at your boot.

Ash fall on the toe. I drop without hesitation. My tongue laping at the ash and taking in the taste of it mixed with the hard leather boot. My world becoming nothing but your ash, your smoke, your leather. I feel your other boot push into my back pushing my belly down to the cold concrete. Giving into the weight my brain no longer functions. I only feel need.

“Don’t move.”
I hear a chair being dragged over and soon the only thing in my vision is your boots. I feel heat on my back as your cigar teases the lines of my flesh. I try not to jump knowing the risk of being burned is high. There is still a part of me wanting it. The heel of your boot digs into my back and I wince in pain. I am not a person right now. I am simply a thing. your stool, your ashtray, whatever it is that you want. I hear you talking to someone vaguely and yet I don’t care. I am simply where I need to be. I feel ash fall onto my back and my body shudders.
I feel my pussy clench.
Your hand rubs the ash into my skin and then ruffle my hair; knowing full well it is simply to clean the ash off of your glove.
Time has no meaning here for me as you continue to enjoy your cigar. When you are done you pull me up so that my head is up to your lap. Your hands scratching my head and ruffling my hair. It pulls me back to the land of human. When you are done I take your hand and hold your glove over my mouth. Still smelling cigar smoke, ash and leather.
Grounding me I look up into your eyes and see you smiling down at me. No words are said. None are really needed. The smiles we both have say more than enough.

January 14, 2012
by Luna.admin
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The dangers of the blurred lines of consent

I know that this has been a hot button topic. Words like ‘rape culture’, ‘no means no’, and ‘consent counts’ all have been used alot lately. How a woman is dressed and how she presents herself seems to be a neon sign for some that say “I need to take that and to hell with what they say. They obviously want it.”

In Kink community the lines are blurred continuously. We are a subculture where the focus is sex.  We dress to impress and titillate 9 times out of 10.  Our get togethers are events that are to teach about better ways to please our partners, to sell items to get to that level and give us the environments in play spaces to do it. It is a subculture that is based on the endorphin high of sexual pleasure. So where can and is the line drawn?

I bring this up after dealing with some unpleasant conversations over the weekend. A female friend of mine contacting me about how a known predator of “newbies” was going to be on panels about sex, kink, kink& religion and polyamory at a sci-fi convention. Personally I had alot of anger. I thought he was blacklisted enough to not get onto any more panels or teach at events, but as one person who I spoke to said, “He was using a name he usually doesn’t use so I didn’t realize it was the same guy.

Why should it bother me? Because what he does is not hearsay. I have experienced it first hand and as someone who has watched them systematically wait for the changing of the guard when it comes to those in charge so he can enter in undetected has disgusted me.  Why have I never spoken up? Why have I not cried rape or unsafe player? It’s a fair question and sadly the answer is because in the past it has not made a difference. I can hear some of my close friends on this who are venomous in the concept of consent cry out “bullshit”, but let me explain.

In my almost 20 years in the kink community I have have a total of 3  incidences that were stalking, abuse and/or rape. 2 where I have gone to higher powers looking for help or changes and in both cases I was shut down. One was a case of stalking and being made uncomfortable at organization based play parties and when I went to the board of the organization with 4 other girls who had the same problem the answer was “we’ll keep an eye on him.” Needless to say when a few years past and he ran for the board of that same organization I was angry beyond belief. Since the organization is a “volunteer” based organization and he was a “valuable volunteer” they were not going to ban him or limit his access to anything the organization was doing.

A few years later I kept company with a man who invited me to his home. I accepted because I had people who I had respected vouch for him. We talked, We had a drink, he kissed me, we went to his room and then it went all wrong. I didn’t ask to be punched in the chest or slapped in the face, I didn’t ask to have his fingers jammed inside me to the point where I screamed from the intense pain, said ow and no. I tried to get away and he just held me in place. I fought and the more I fought the hard he hit me.  I finally just stopped fighting and knew he would stop. Every time I tried to leave the bed while he slept he pulled me in tight. All I wanted to do was escape and finally when he was in a deep sleep at 5 in the morning I could. I was mortified and ashamed. I could barely face my primary at the time with what happened. I went to people who knew this beast and was faced with the kind of questions and comments that I was shocked to hear from them.

  • “well you have a rep for liking it rough.”
  • “why didn’t you safe word?”
  • “You can’t possibly be talking about THAT guy.”
  • “maybe you gave him the impression you wanted that”
  • “I don’t believe you.”
  • “Well he’s never done anything bad to me”

I was sick. To this day it has affected how I view certain higher ups in this community and how we are all so willing to believe that someone is not a monster simply because it didn’t happen to them. This individual still teaches and there are those that still raise his flag. This man is the reason why I do not attend Dark Odyssey events of any kind. If they are comfortable enough to have him there to teach then I want nothing to do with them and since he is protected by powerful people in the community I fear nothing will change.

That experience colored my lack of willingness to say anything about this third one. I should have known better. I had watched him stalk and go after many women all of who were young and new. Maybe I thought that since I was neither young or new there would be no issues. I was wrong.  Again the problem was this. I was staying at his home, I consented to him curling up with me in bed. I had told him my limits in advance and I watched them all fall away.  I was brutalized, he fucked me without my consent, I could not escape. I could not say no because his fingers were in my mouth pulling my cheeks away to pain and I couldn’t get anything but sounds out. My tears and crying only excited him more. When it was over I got dressed and said I had a meeting I needed to go to. The meeting was hours away but I needed to get out of there.  Once outside I threw up. When I did confront him on what happened his excuse was that he had “lost control” and that he “thought I liked that sort of thing”.

I only spoke out about him to those close to me. I didn’t think going public was going to be helpful especially since I had people start giving me the same kind of lines as before. I did finally have some believe me and I did also find others who had the same story as I. It finally came to a head when I was teaching at the same event as this individual and I basically told the head of presenters to keep him away from me. When I told him why he was immediately concerned.  I was relieved when I saw that he was not going to be teaching again anytime soon. Then I started getting calls about this current Scifi convention.  When I made some inquiries about it I was told that their were people who were aware and that they had a “watch team” created to keep an eye on him.

Keep an eye on him? This means to me that you know full well in advance that you have let a dangerous individual into an event. An event that is not even a kink event but an event that is a scifi con that has kink classes. That you know his reputation and yet you still let him in and speak as if he has some validity to his knowledge sets a horrible president for the future.

So what am I getting at with all of this?

How is this not just a rant?

We constantly talk about consent but sometimes that concept is not as clear as black and white. Sometimes it’s not a case of “No” meaning don’t touch me. I think alot of people consider consent meaning Yes = touch me  and No= don’t touch me. When it can mean Yes= kiss me and No= don’t fuck me.  Yes= you can hold me down and No= you can’t punch or slap me.  Don’t interact with me expecting me to do with you what I do with my play partner of 6 years. What I do with say my Sir is different from what I do with my play partner in Chicago and that is different from my play partner in Boston or NY. Just because you’ve seen me take it hard doesn’t mean you can take me hard.

It’s to the point where this community sometimes scares me. That it protects too many monsters simply because they don’t want to admit that they made a mistake in supporting someone for too long.  What they don’t understand is that their silence does more damage than saying “I was wrong.”

December 26, 2011
by Luna.admin
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Bumps in the road….

So I hit a bump in the road. Losing two major clients with my business BTN Consulting in just a month has me on the ropes in ways that actually scare me. I’m literally not sure how I am going to pay for the next couple of months. rent, food, therapy.  It’s sort of taken me by surprise. It has nothing to do with poor work. I’m not doing something wrong. Business is hard for everyone and it’s a slow season for alot of people.

I’ve taken alot of pride in running my own business over the last 20 months. Taking care of kink educators, dancers, authors artists and small businesses. I love my work. I work with people who’s work I believe in and I am just as passionate about what they do and wish to continue doing it. So I am asking for some help.

I’m looking for clients.

Artists, Authors, LGBT Friendly, Kink Friendly, Small businesses.

  • Creative Consulting
  • Social Media Networking (Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In etc)
  • Email coordination
  • PR distribution
  • Billing (QuickBooks)
  • Ebay and PayPal management
  • Maintaining Spreadsheets and databases
  • Internet Research
  • Organizing To-do lists
  • Calendar Management
  • Travel Arrangements and Itinerary Management
  • Management of Contracts
  • Creating promotional materials, including press release and blog posts
  • Special Projects based on client needs.

I’m even running a special rate for the month of January to start off the new year for new clients.

I don’t want this to be a begging thing. I hate being in this position. I hate feeling this lost. Especially at the end of the year.

I need help. My holiday wish is to have work. To be able to start the new year with work to pay my bills again.  You all have shown me amazing support over the years for all the work I have done as an educator, writer, and business woman.  I am eternally grateful for it and hope there is a few of you that can give me some help.

Any ideas, work, projects or help wise would be very helpful.

Thank you all!

Luna

 

December 19, 2011
by Luna.admin
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A Poly ‘Ah-ha’ Moment….

I’m always amazed when the moments hit us. Those pearls of wisdom that seem to come from nowhere when in actuality they come when the mind and heart are finally calm and at peace. We tend to see them so rarely simply because we are always running around to and fro trying to keep up with the schedules that we place on ourselves. We’re too busy, too cluttered, too stressed to just stop and listen to the lessons that we are provided with. Until that one moment, where we are finally calm enough. Sometimes it’s in the shower, or when our mind finally goes blank while walking on the treadmill or just as we are about to drift off to sleep.

For me it hit right after meditation. I was about to drift off and then my mind unlocked some answers for me about poly and open relationships. Something I have been struggling with for years and yet here I was, laying in bed half awake and half asleep and this knowledge was whispered to me like it always seems to.

It really just boiled down to a simple thought at first:

‘You need to simply let go of what you think is right.’

Now granted this general idea is something that has been preached to me for the last 6 months religiously but there was something about this particular ringing of truth that seemed to get through. Something seemed to click and like one of those movie moments it was like a big bang explosion of images and realizations.

See I didn’t always used to be someone who identified as polyamorous. Basically because that was never an option. Growing up in Vermont in the 80′s and 90′s such things were not even on the radar. Anyone who was dating more than one person at the same time was viewed as a “slut” and not in that happy fun way that the word sometimes gets used in.  It was simply expected that you found someone, settled down, got married, had kids and the end. Life was complete.

I already knew I was a little different. I knew at a very early age that I didn’t want kids and right up until college I wasn’t event thinking marriage. To this day I still don’t know why I decided to change that thinking and got married. Especially since even when I did I looking at others to help me fill the gaps of what I didn’t have or could have with my current husband.  There was still no word for what I was looking for relationship wise.  I still had this mentality of “it’s cheating” if I thought about anyone else while in a relationship and well…..to be honest back in the day that is pretty much all there was for me.  Even when I opened up relationships and we brought in a third I was always left for the new girl. I never had a concept of poly or triad until I was in my mid 20′s. Even then I was always confused by it all. So much so that I would flip back to monogamy thinking that would solve the problem but it never did.

So here I am….older, and yet convinced that poly is still the way to go. Even when things seemed to be at it’s hardest. Yet something inside has changed. A realization that I’m sure there is some that would simply say, “Duh Luna….I could have told you that,” but that is neither here nor there.  To be honest it’s the simple realization that my relationship is not dictated by the other relationships that my partner has or other relationships that I have.  Where I have been failing is in one key part.  I’m nobody’s primary. I have no primary relationship. Yes I have a relationship that takes priority but it is still not a “primary” relationship. When that relationship has problems or is viewed as broken or in flux or danger in my mind everything else stops. My other relationships take a back seat when in reality that is not how I should be handling it. At least in my mind now that is how I see it.

Where I go with my other relationships or where ever my partners go in their other relationships does not affect my relationship with them.  I am still me. I don’t need to try and fulfill some silly idea of what I think I need to be for them. I just need to be me. That is what they were interested in in the first place. I was still holding on to these ideas of relationships based in the land of monogamy. I had things in boxes which I thought was what I needed but the problem was that I never leaving one box for another. I thought if one was in trouble, I had to stay, fix it and then I could branch out. Not realizing that it was also damaging my other relationships doing so.

So where does it put me now?  Where is my thinking?

I don’t feel guilt anymore for spending time with any of my relationships and I don’t feel abandoned when I have to wait to spend time with any of them.  I don’t feel unloved because I know that I am loved.  I have let go of the socially acceptable ideas of what relationships are supposed to be. I have finally let go of the idea that I am supposed to have that “one person” who is supposed to care for me. Even though it was not what I knew I wanted there was still a part of me that held on to that old society idea.  I actually feel more free and alive with this new realization. I actually feel more me in my skin. As if the realization unrusted one of the cylinders in my engine. I’m not a V-8 with a Nitro tank yet, but I am well on my way.