Taboo March 2009

6 STELLA AND CRUZ—UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
Photography by Sexkicks
15 SUB-SPACE
Slave Speech, Pee Play, Dubious Doms
18 CHAIN MAIL
Deviant Doings, Debauched Dispatches
20 LAURA—SUBTERRANEAN SUBMISSION
Photography by Sexkicks
26 JANA AND KELLY—WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S DESIRE
Photography Andre Baylock
32 READERS' DOMAIN
The Bound and the Shaved
34 JANDI—SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM
Photography by Lee Forbes
42 THE HAND
Our Corporal Correspondent Dishes the Discipline
44 CHAYSE—SHACKLED SHACK-UP
Photography by Matti Klatt
52 HOOD OVER HEELS
Fiction Evlio Photographyby byange Leene ForGbesrdon
58 BRITNEYAND MARCUS—STRAIGHT-TO-A-STUDENT
Photography by Dave Naz
94 THE GROVE—PART THREE
Graphic Novel by Roberts

EDITORIAL NOTE
WBird things breed in isolation, and some of the correspondence we get and the things we see and read on the Web make us concerned for what goes on in the name of BDSM where there is no larger standard of comparison. From here and there, we get reports of cultish behavior that sounds more appropriate to a Warren Jeffs's compound than a kinkster playspace.
Here's what we see that we don't like: Some guy invents a persona of vast magisterial experience for himself (often posted on the Internet) accumulates one or two needy, questing submissives around him, then parades them around as trophies at local and regional events, drawing even less experienced players, male and female, to him. He, of course, has his own ideas about proper protocol and correct technique—usually based on his own fantasy life, and establishes these things as the standards for his whole posse. In classic cult-meister fashion, he makes a point of keeping his followers away from anyone who might know more about BDSM than he does, or who might have a cautionary word or two to say regarding his insistence that the Total Power Exchange model, as he interprets it, is the only real, true, valid kink and that everything else is just poser bullshit.
And it's in the socially cloistered atmosphere of these cliques that abusive behavior comes to be seen as normal. Subs have no voices, much less choices, and doms do as Master Master does or they get pushed out. If anybody has a problem, the others are there to remind the troublesome slave of her proper place. And if the Big Guy decides to turn a buck off their hobbies by wiring his place as a cam-house, well, a slave's wages are as much Master's property as her body.
If you find yourself in this kind of situation, you are not practicing BDSM. You are being abused and exploited and you should leave—now. And take your sister slaves with you.
There was nothing wrong with what you wanted, just with the lying mountebank who promised to give it to you. Next time, get to know the human being before you surrender to the image.
—Ernest Greene, Executive Editor