BDSM Circle News?

January 29th, 2012

What's in the work for 2012:

Hello all!

The last few years has been interesting for us BDSM wise, leaving us with less time to take care of our site. Remember, our BDSM life and vanilla life comes before our site. Yet, we were able to put up some article that we are proud of during 2011.

But, lots have change from our website. In the past, we used to receive around 200 emails per week. Now it is down to about 60 a week. Yet, the amount of visits, according to our stats programme has been up 30% last year!!!!!

In bits of conversation her and there, we discovered that some of our latest article has been hitting the "bull eyes", about questions and concerns from our visitors, thus, having less questions (emails) from them!

I would say that we are a bit proud of this….ok, very proud!

BDSM by itself isn't a changing world, but the way people approach it, the values they have, do change. 10 years ago, BDSM adepts had a different approach of it; their concerns being about keeping this part of them secret, the need for BDSM being more about the exchange of power, now, secrecy is not has important like it use to be, appearances though, seems more important. Young Gothic adult that have become young "vampires" enthusiasts and even them seems to be disappearing. The "Steam Punk" era seems to be coming (thanks to Draegon for our introduction to this), and even if they haven't cross over to BDSM yet, this philosophy based on the old Jules Verne's futuristic view of the world, which is a crossover between Victorian fashion and shiny 80' technologies, is perfect for a new style of BDSM.

Our BDSM visitors reflect these changing times. The "new" visitors are less likely to participate into technical or philosophical discussions, yet, chatrooms and online alternatives worlds are busier than ever. The new adepts want less talk about BDSM but want more discussion and action IN BDSM situation either in real life or online. The new BDSM is less about pure exchange of power, yet, adepts get more into power exchange scenario….odds!!! Fetish fashion is "in". Music video, regular fashion, movie actors are spreading the "good word" about it.

Since the beginning of our website, over 12 years ago, the goals of our website have change many times to follow the needs of the BDSM world. Our "We Are" pages are so outdated now, it is embarrassing! We should do something about it this year!!!! But, it is not our priority. This year, we are going to expand on trends we already have about the BDSM relationship itself, and safety in play and all around it. Within' the safety trend, we will start a string of articles about "No hit zone" on the body, or to be more precise, what and what not to do on different parts of the body. We have a few information about the philosophy itself will be put on our pages. The glossaries are still in progress. We are currently in the process of renovating the "Checklist" page and tying up the description into the checklist, it is a huge project, but we hope to finish it in 2012.

Keep emailing us, the material from your emails….or lack of them, tell us what to write about. Incidentally, the most popular question that we get now, well…..here is the answer: "NO, we do not know any good place in Montreal where to rent a good fully equip dungeon"……. :)

Oh, and before we forget: Be safe and logical and all your BDSM action in 2012 and think of possible consequence of what you are doing.

Pierre and Catharine

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