I'm pretty new to the scene and am looking to network with people in the area. I'm really excited about it, want to make friends, connections and of course play--my goal is to try to discover and understand my desires and help others do the same. I've realized that all those kinks I've discovered have always been there, but I didn't know how to express them nor did I have people to express them with or spaces to express them in.?

Some general/interest/bio stuff: I teach composition and creative writing at universities in Northeast Ohio and was born, raised and educated here. I have Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I'm a poet--this is an essential part of my identity and my ever evolving revisioning of the world on the page is continually influenced by the life I'm out living, with out which I could not write. Although I'm not a BDSM educator, I'd be more than happy to run a kink-oriented creative writing workshop. I enjoy the outdoors. Love dive bars as much as clubbing. I'm a beer snob, but still drink cheap American brew. Used to be something of a bedroom/local DJ and raver, but just don't have time nor the desire for that lifestyle anymore, though the music will always move me. At this moment I don't view the rave scene as terribly risk aware and that isn't the place for me anymore. When I have the time to mix I find lately I'm inspired to create mood setting mixes that speak to my kink.?

My top side is a hunter and satyr--moans, whimpers, cries of pain feed my sadism. I can be sensual, but my instincts are to swallow the pain you give me and ask for more. I'm like to make a throaty chuckle in your ear as I run my knife across your throat then bite down on your shoulder until you kneel. I love leaving marks (and kissing them, and licking them).?

As a bottom I've been told that the way in which I present my body is a turn on. In a manner of speaking I give myself and my body as a blank canvas to my top. I like to walk away from a scene wearing, proudly, the marks and bruises a top leaves on me. I find that I have two moods as a bottom--that of a pain slut, "just beat me please" and that of a seeker looking to have the layers stripped away so I that I can find...whatever may be inside myself or "out there" to find.?

I'm huge leather slut. If its dyed black and made out of dead animal skin I want to wear it, play with it, put it on someone else, be hit by it or hit someone else with it. I spent the last summer working in a motorcycle leather and accessory shop and am devastated that the smell is no longer so potent as it once was. Leather helps put in me in my space.

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