Communication
How to Discuss a BDSM Fantasy With Your Partner
Raise a fantasy outside the bedroom, at a calm moment, and lead with the feeling you are after rather than the act. Ask for a conversation rather than a decision,…
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BDSM Education
Online Versus In-Person BDSM Coaching
Online coaching is best for understanding desires, planning, negotiation practice and preparation, with no physical contact of any kind. In-person coaching is necessary for anything involving hands: pressure, pacing, reading a body and technique that cannot be described accurately in words.
Thorne · 6 min read
What online coaching does well
- Working out what you actually want, before spending anything on a session
- Negotiation practice, including the awkward parts
- Preparing for a first in-person experience
- Debriefing an experience you have already had
- Couples conversations that keep stalling at home
- Access from outside New York City
What requires being in the room
Anything involving hands. Pressure is impossible to convey over video; so is the pace of a stroke, the timing of a pause, or the difference between contact that reassures and contact that alerts.
The same applies to sensual touch and bodywork instruction — it is a physical craft, learned physically.
A sensible sequence
Many people do both, in that order: an online conversation to find the shape of what they want, then an in-person session to learn or experience it.
Online sessions use a private link and are prepaid in full. Find somewhere you will not be interrupted, test your camera and connection beforehand, and arrive sober and on time.
Conversation-based coaching by private video call.
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When you are ready
You deserve for your fantasies to become reality.
Tell Thorne what you are curious about and let the conversation begin.
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