INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING? About Darker Pleasures Darker Pleasures is a niche erotica site that features stories, photographs, art, and articles specializing in female bondage with a specific focus on breast bondage and breast torture.  Our site is intended for those people who enjoy reading about and/or seeing breast bondage and breast torture or who are actively involved in the BDSM lifestyle. Our audience tends to be well read and educated and knows a great deal about our subject matter.  Quality of work is very important to us.  For that reason, we use high quality photos, attractive models, and well-written erotic stories.   We also solicit feedback from our members through the use of surveys and forums, and use this feedback as core material for new stories or to continue popularly requested stories. We publish at least one monthly photo-illustrated story that ranges from 4000 - 7500 words that is illustrated with photographs selected from several galleries of custom photographs (generally 120 - 200).  These selected images are spaced throughout the story to illustrate the text.  The subject matter of the story provides the theme around which the photo shoot is centered and the monthly galleries are created.  In addition to the monthly feature, we publish several independent text stories in the same word count range, guest art, and educational articles. Artists Darker Pleasures the work of at least one guest artist each month.  Many prominent Internet artists have contributed breast-oriented work in exchange for permanent reciprocal exposure.  If you're an established artist or just getting started, and have interest in getting more exposure, or just in getting a closer look inside our webzine, drop us a line and we'll chat. Lifestylers and Journalists Darker Pleasures prides itself not only in the quality of it's photographs and stories, but also in giving back to the BDSM community with entertaining and educational lifestyle articles.  The most prominent of these is Matt Nicholson's Breast Punishment Primer.  We are always looking for guests articles that delve more deeply into specific topics featured in the Primer, or in other areas specific to the breast-oriented BDSM community.  If your a Dominant, submissive, or otherwise interested in what we do, and feel an inclination toward writing an article, write us. Writers Darker Pleasures is always looking for quality stories focused on breast bondage and tit torture.  Depending on a writer's experience and skill level, and interest, we publish amateur pieces in exchange for exposure and subscriber's benefits as well as professional and semi-professional stories for pay.  Guidelines are briefly summarized below, and can be found in more depth here. Story Guidelines 1. The subject(s) of the story must be female. 2. BREAST BONDAGE/TORTURE MUST BE PRIMARY FETISH FOCUS OF THE STORY.  3. Any graphic (brutal) torture must be with the female character’s conscious or subconscious consent. 4. Torture and/or bondage predicaments that depict scenes of permanent mutilation (tattooing or piercing excluded) and/or amputation, excessive blood play, unrealistic and/or overly severe forms of bondage must be cleared by the webmaster and may not be accepted if deemed overly graphic. 5. The writers should do adequate research to ensure that the forms of bondage and/or predicaments used are ones that could reasonably and believably be used.   Resource links are included in the writers’ area of the site.  6. Stories will not feature characters, settings or situations that derive from other copyrighted medium.  (i.e. no readily identifiable characters or settings from literature, games, television and/or movies.) 7. Stories will not feature celebrities, public figures or any person who may be readily recognized.  8. Stories will not feature characters that are under eighteen years of age. 9. Stories that have excessive grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors may be rejected without review. 10. Stories that do not meet the above criteria will be rejected. Stories including any of the following topics will be summarily rejected: 1. Incest  (Sex between relatives) 2. Bestiality (Sex with animals) 3. Pedophilia (Sex with children) 4. “Snuff” (The brutal murder of the “victim” solely for the murder’s sake) 5. Necrophilia  (Sex with deceased persons) In addition, there are other fetishes or practices that, though they have a following elsewhere, are typically viewed with mixed emotions at best by the general adult BDSM reader or are out of our particular niche. As such, these topics should be avoided: 1. Excretory fetishes (“watersports,” defecation, vomiting) 2. Foot fetishes 3. Victims over the age of forty 4. Heavily overweight (BBW) or disabled victims 5. Fisting 6. Anal penetration Other forms of torment (spanking, genital, etc.) are acceptable to further the storyline, but only as a subset of the primary breast torment and may not detract from the focus of the story. If you are interested in submitting art, an article, or a story to Darker Pleasures, contact Matt Nicholson at webmaster@darkerpleasures.com.  Please provide web sites, references, or other credentials if possible.  If you are submitting for pay, obtaining a temporary membership in order to better determine how we operate is suggested but not required, and will not affect acceptance or rejection.

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