Master Romeo's Web Page of the Month
2001

Dedicated to web pages of interest to SM practitioners. Suggestions are welcome at Romeo@HiddenCastle.com. To qualify there must be substantial free information and/or pictures. Preferred are nonvendor sites set up for the love of doing it. Vendors qualify that have a unique and not well known item.

If more than one URL is necessary to tell a complete story more than one is listed.

This web page is updated on or about the first of the month.

I would like to keep the older links up to date. If you find any of older links are out of date and you know where the site has moved to please let me know so I can update it. If when following any of those links you see a "this site has moved to" message please let me know so I can update it before the forwarding web page disappears.

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Click on the above image for an article on foreign interventionism by Congressman Ron Paul.

WARNING! Once a government, any government, takes away a freedom for any reason, or pretext, almost never is the freedom restored. Not even when the original cause no longer exists. Hypocracy in Action

Click on the above image for political cartoons featuring Osama Been Lousy

December 2001 149 Visits

All about hot wax play:

http://links.magenta.com/~spectrum/wax.htm

November 2001 131 Visits

BDSM play stimulates the production of hormones involved in lust and emotional bonding. When we play, we play with hormones. Hormones are one of our body's communication systems. It is also one of the ways we are genetically programmed to be rewarded for survival behavior for our genes. A reward we get for reproductive behavior is the hormone oxytocin. This hormone seems to be involved in all matters concerning reproduction. It is released during sexual activity and causes emotional bonding. It is one of the reasons sexual activity is also known as "love making."

http://www.globalideasbank.org/crespec/CS-26.HTML

http://www.rmca.org/Articles/oxytocin.htm

http://www.birthpsychology.com/messages/bonding/bonding.html

http://www.maui.net/~jms/love.html

http://www.primalspirit.com/Grof_PlanetarySurvival_art.htm

October 2001 134 Visits

Women with unnaturally narrow waists do not look healthy to me and appear to me to be much to physically fragile. Personally I am not attracted to this. But the wearing of corsets is a part of the fetish community, and so this month's web page is about them.

http://www.staylace.com

Of special interest is the "Corsets Collars and Chains" link on the history page:

http://www.staylace.com/_history.htm

September 2001 66 Visits

Bondage University:

http://www.bondageu.com

August 2001 73 Visits

Society for Human Sexuality

http://www.sexuality.org

July 2001 114 Visits

Sorry Manners: Civility and Incivility in the Scene

http://freeweb.pdq.net/feather/gallantrose/manners.htm

June 2001 145 Visits

Tammad Rimilia, Gentleman Barbarian

http://ms.ha.md.us/~tammad

May 2001 89 Visits

The Inquisition: How they did it for real in the old days.

http://www.shootingiron.com/chamber/inquis.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/3015/inq1.htm

http://www.web-site.co.uk/knights_templar/templar6_4.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/clareno-inq.html

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/9363/history.htm

http://www.theelectricchair.com/torture.htm

April 2001 110 Visits

How to make dungeon equipment. Of special interest are the "Fucking Machines."

http://www.saroftreve.com/workshop/index.htm

March 2001 86 Visits

This month continues the March tradition of linking to information about the appalling practice of present day nonconsensual chattel slavery. This is not something that only existed in a distant, primitive, and unenlightened past. It exists in those countries that sanction it and illegaly in those countries that don't, even the ones most respected for law and order. There are more slaves now than there ever have been in history. This includes an estimated 50,000 foreigners held illegaly in slavery in the United States. I will begin with some historical links of interest.

Historical

In the Old South, not all who were black were slaves. Some blacks were free and a few of these blacks were slave owners:

http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

http://www.deovindice.org/library/grooms.htm

In early America, including the Old South, not all slaves were black:

http://www.apopulistreview.com/news/they_were_white_slaves.htm

http://www.melvig.org/files/slaves.html

http://www.africana.com/tt_145.htm

How big is the problem?

http://www.ippf.org/newsinfo/archive/0003/66.htm

http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/general/news/010119_2_en.htm

http://lists.isb.sdnpk.org/pipermail/gsd-list/2000-September/000080.html

Organizations

http://www.anti-slavery.org

http://users.erols.com/bcccsbs/bass/bass.html

http://www.antislavery.org/selection.htm

http://www.trafficked-women.org/index.html

http://www.iom.int/ct/entry.htm

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org

http://www.casa-alianza.org/EN/about

http://www.captive.org

Bosnia Herzegovina

http://www.iom.int/PDF_Files/Trafficking_in_Migrants/TBAutumn.pdf

Burma

The Burma-Slave campaign:

http://www.euroburma.com/asia/euro-burma/fbc/batch%3D05may97-16.html

Cambodia

In the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge:

http://www.canoe.com/OttawaChildren/oct24_cambodia2.html

Cayman Islands

Profits from slave trafficking and slave labor must be laundered somewhere:

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/1999/0888.html

China

The one child per couple law in China has created a black market for female breeder slaves for desperate men:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/981012/12slav.htm

http://www.wright.edu/~tdung/bride_vn.htm

Guam

Three in Guam charged with forcing Chinese women into sex slavery

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9811/18/guam

India

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/52a/013.html

Kosovo

POST-WAR KOSOVO - Latest hotspot for sexual slavery

http://mai.flora.org/forum/19403

http://members.nbci.com/yugo_archive/20000207trafftanju.htm

http://www.iom.ipko.org/trafficking

Nepal

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/repro2/TULASA.html

Pakistan

http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/womrep/General-152.htm

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/130600/detFOR04.htm

Thailand:

http://selena.bilkent.edu.tr/selena/struggle/thailand.html

Ukraine

http://www.brama.com/issues/nytart.html

USA

CIA Report:

http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/women/trafficking.pdf

http://www.trafficked-women.org/berkshire.html

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/marianas

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/1998/0025.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/17/MN88465.DTL

http://www.nlcnet.org/Press/Newsclip/complst.htm

http://wsws.org/arts/1998/may1998/farm-m23.shtml

http://www.vinsight.org/1996news/1204a.htm

International

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/30/x-timfgnusa02001.html

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/relweb.htm

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/wrd/trafficking.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/8336/slavery1.html

Children

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7487

http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/CNMS/archivio/paesi/clabour_today.html

http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/Other-sites/links.html

http://www.crin.org/wilonew/survey.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a373b00940dc5.htm

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/97-3.htm

http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/India3.htm

http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1998/documentation/genassembly/a-53-311.htm

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jan2000/chld-j07.shtml

What does the big picture of world events bode for the future? Will the problem get any better? Or are we at the dawn of a new dark age?

http://dieoff.org/page67.htm

February 2001 159 Visits

Ever wonder what is going inside a submissive's brain at play?

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs

Of special interest is chapter 5, "Pain and Other Stressors." In SM pain play the point is to make the bottom feel good by using the pain to stimulate the release of the bodies natural opiates. Many SM players think of this this play as being addictive. The article describes evidence that natural opiate release in response to pain is enhanced by "social defeat." Being on the receiving end of play (being the bottom) has long been associated with subservience and slavery. Could this be because the dominance causes the same "social defeat" response in the submissive thereby enhancing the release of the submissive's opiates in response to pain? Could this explain addictive effects of pain play and subservience?

January 2001 89 Visits

You have read all 25 Gorean novels and can't remember which one had that great slave dance you want to look up? Answer: The site wide search engine at the City of Koroba:

http://koroba.tripod.com/pgmaink.html