As many in the community know, Flagg passed away around 23:10 on 10/06/2009 due to complications after a double organ transplant. All of us here in his pack are devastated by his loss and I am sure each of us will, in their own spaces, comment upon his passing as we feel the need. While  Read more »

Over the next little while we will be re-formatting some of the older articles here on The Estate. First to get the treatment was The East Wing Perspective on Protocols in the Estate: What and Why. Enjoy!

Whiel approving comments I came across a link to Flagg’s discussion of protocol from a French website. Thanks to online translation, I can even read it! The original link Translated by Google Translated by Live (choose French -> English)

Things have been quite on this site – yet obviously SirC, Flagg and I have been busy and active in the community. This seems to be confusing some people. Because we are so visible and active we find that folks get confused at how rarely this website is updated. The reasons are simple… we have  Read more »

The Estate is currently basically dormant while Flagg recovers from a temporary illness and SirC learns a trade that involves (and I am not kidding) running her hands all over the seriously wounded flesh of strangers. There is a lot going on with us though and there are a lot of ways to keep up  Read more »

Welcome to all those checking in after the TES workshop. Follow the link to CollarCult to see what’s happening with the new content I promised!

The East Wing Perspective on Training vs. Romance As my peers have noted in their articles, this subject, while completely clear to us as we discuss it within our group is somewhat more difficult to express to the community at large. I myself sat on this subject for more than a month (actually, much more)  Read more »

The East Wing Perspective on Protocols in The Estate: What and Why When we formed The Estate, it was with the specific goal of codifying what we like into a structured, well thought-out and consistent set of rules and guidelines that could be used all the time. Our feeling is, it should never be necessary  Read more »

  Punishment, Correction and Conditioning in the Shaping of Human Tools Introduction I am a fairly active participant in the discussion of the methods, philosophies and issues that surround and permeate the BDSM community in a number of mediums. Several topics come up often and seem to be in the process of dividing the BDSM  Read more »

For our purposes, we can divide the population into four primary groups. As it is inevitable the the language of this discussion will be prejudicial if someone were to wish to misunderstand, or to take it out of context, I will make no attempt to pretty it up… instead, I am going to embrace those  Read more »