Hi,
I joined the Library a few days ago, here are a few words to introduce myself.
I am a 42 year-old European (bi but mostly) gay male. I've been living in Bangkok for the last 10+ years and I love it.
I wrote and posted a couple of stories -- David and Jonathan and The Visitor -- and I have more in preparation. (I actually have two more already written but they are vanilla and therefore not appropriate for this Library. Anybody interested can find them here and here.)
I have very limited experience in BDSM (my partner is 100% vanilla) but, like I wrote in my author intro, I am into voluntary submission and begged-for humiliation. No bondage, no coercion. Only the slave instinct... That irrepressible need to feel owned and dominated, and to revel in humiliation and debasement.
Although I do not mind some level of pain I am not in it per se as I am chiefly interested in the psychological aspect of BDSM. While S/M doesn't do anything for me I quite enjoy the D part of B/D. However, D/s is what really interests me, both as a top and as a bottom.
I am positively fascinated by the concept of submission; the deliberate surrender of power and of oneself to someone; the wish to become an external extension of the person's body that they can use as easily as they would their own arm, leg or whatever -- especially if this involves receiving pain, being humiliated and degraded to some extent, all within a consensual sexual context. D/s without the sexual component, e.g. the domination of a maid, a secretary, a nurse... by her boss, is interesting psychologically and ethologically, but definitely lacks something crucial for my taste.
OK. I think I'll stop my rambling here. I started by announcing a few words to introduce myself and here I am writing a flipping manifesto. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun...
Cheers