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WHAT DO WE DO ?

We help kinksters like you have happy, healthy power exchange relationships. No matter how you define BDSM and no matter what kind of kinky relationship you want, we’re here to help!

WHO ARE WE ?

We are John Brownstone (the Dom) and Kayla Lords (the sub), a married D/s couple, sharing our thoughts, feelings, and experiences on this thing we call BDSM.

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In our weekly podcast, we discuss all aspects of how to have a happy, healthy power exchange relationship.

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Feel like a total noob? Don’t know what you don’t know? We offer resources for new kinksters here on our site and a list of resources you can find around the internet. Start with D/s for Beginners and then check out our BDSM resource page.

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We share tips and how-tos, answer BDSM questions, offer our thoughts and insight, share product reviews, and publish the show notes for every podcast episode on our blog! Take a look!

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What is Submission? | 30 Days of D/s

We’re back with another post taken from our 30 Days of D/s program to answer another big question: What is submission? Much like the question on dominance, defining submission is inherently personal, and it...

episode 262 of the Loving BDSM podcast

Positive Reinforcement

How have we gone so long without a dedicated episode on positive reinforcement in D/s? We don’t know either, but here we are! This week, we talk about it within our own relationship, how...

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What is Dominance? | 30 Days of D/s

What does it mean to be a dominant? That’s a very personal question and no two people will ever give the exact same answer. The simplest explanation of dominance is control over a submissive...

episode 261 of the Loving BDSM podcast

Leadership Styles and Power Exchange

This week we’re perverting yet another vanilla concept — this time, business leadership styles and how they relate back to power exchange relationships. Some have direct correlations to obvious D/s dynamics, others are more...

episode 260 of the Loving BDSM podcast

BDSM Q&A | March 2021

Instead of throwing in a Q&A episode when we run out of topics, we’re actually planning them this year — one every few months! The best way to ask questions is to follow us...

episode 259 of the Loving BDSM podcast

Self-Preservation

This week’s episode is a bit of a rant based on things we’ve seen in the online kink community. Every time the issues come up, we (I) think, “Please have a sense of self-preservation!”...