Bookgirl Downunder

This is a work in progress inspired by the suggestions and stories of a friend from Australia. Chapter 5 added today.

A Fundamental Lesson

This is a humorous, short piece about being humiliated on the Jerry Springer Show.

BDSM Limits Lists

Traditionally these have been presented like a multiple choice quiz to determine what people will and won't do in a BDSM scene and their levels of interest in specific activities. If you're anything like me (hates being locked into decision making or anything else that might limit improvisation) you'll have probably dismissed these lists as being not relevant. But they can have uses. It all depends on how they're used. In this essay I'd like to share a way I've found to use limits lists without having them diminish the spontaneity of play.

Traffic Lights

If there's one aspect of BDSM that I like the most, it's playing games. The games I enjoy most are those that involve some kind of random or unpredictable outcome. Naturally, card and dice games have always featured often but somebody recently suggested one that involves traffic lights!

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" Good girls keep diaries..."

Bad girls don't have the time. Or so said Mae West. I've always kept diaries :)

Last Week

17th August, 2003

"This isn't the end of civilization as we know it ... it is civilization as we know it." - Germaine Greer

This update is a bit behind schedule because I've been busy working on a novel (my first full length novel, that is) and I've written and re-written the first chapter more times than I care to remember. That chapter, such as it is, is now up in the fiction section under the title Room 101 The main themes when the work is finshed will be centered around blackmail and humiliation and set to a backdrop of reality television . I don't know about you, but the concept of these shows fascinates me. I rarely watch them but I am intrigued by the idea that people are so willing to go on television in front of millions of people and make complete idiots of themselves. I guess that's nothing new - years of games shows and talent quests are certainly testament to that.

The title for this latest piece is taken from Orwell's classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Room 101 being the Torture Chamber in which the central character, Winston, was brainwashed) and there's a lot of little sub-plots and ideas I'm planning on working into the story that are related to this novel and the television culture that has sprung up as a direct result. It's interesting also these days to note that while surveilance cameras in Orwell's novel were forced onto the public by Big Brother , these days people willingly set up the very same sorts of cameras and broadcast their lives to the world through the internet. I often wonder what Orwell would make of such things.

There's also a thread through the story related to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network. The story, of course, is entirely fiction, however Murdoch is on record as once having said (in relation to the power of the media and Orwell's condemnation of the way history is rewritten by it)

" Orwell wrote a nice book but he was wrong (about the influence of the media)"

In that same interview I remember reading he went on to say one of his publishing companies was looking at publishing an "updated" version of all Orwell's works using current politically correct words and ideas. Orwell would certainly roll over in his grave!

The Dice Man

I recently finished reading this novel (by Luke Rhinehart) and will be writing a full review of it in the coming weeks. It is an exceptionally good, fun read and I highly recommend it. It essentially is the story of a psychiatrist (Rhinehart) who starts toying with dice in order to introduce some interesting chaos into his life -- a life that had become increasingly dull and boring up to that point. Slowly and deliberately he totally destroys the stability in his life, family and career as the dice are consulted for his every move. It was something of a cult novel after it was first released in the early 1970s and appears to be having something of a renaissance with a whole new, younger audience today discovering the book. Rhinehart certainly is to the alternate lifestyle of random living what Timothy Leary was to LSD. Full review of the book coming soon.

Search For The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub

The Life and Ideas of The Marquis de Sade by Geoffrey Gorer

Hits of the 70s by Various Artists

Bridges: The Best Of... Ravi Shankar

Greatest Hits 1970 - 2002 by Elton John

My Fair Lady (My all-time favorite movie)

The Secretary

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

" You don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings serendipitously . " - The Last Voyage Of Somebody The Sailor (The Sindbad Saga) by John Barth

I'm a happily married woman working in the academic field who enjoys art, reading, music and simple romantic pleasures such as picnics and walks on the beach. Fairly ordinary, really.

Quelle vie, musique, champagne ...

By definition it is " the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. " It's a word that I think is succinct in the way it explains how I came to discover my interests in BDSM, in particular, my submissive nature. I was nearly thirty tears old before I began to feel free to express this part of me and a further nine of so before I started to really feel comfortable with my desires. None on this might have happened if it hadn't been for a chance meeting with the man I ultimately married. This in itself could be described as happenstance - my second favorite word :)

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