BDSM Company
Background
The BDSM scene in Taiwan has changed a lot in recent years. Foreign terminology and concepts has been translated and introduced to Taiwan and became known to local SM practitioners. People meet each other on Internet; a number of SM-themed Internet chatrooms and bulletin boards are founded, some starting to have regular social events. Outside the Internet there are also a number of SM practitioners who simply take BDSM as their lifestyle. With this critical mass of people participating, SMers in Taiwan began to invent and construct our own discourse on respective responsibility and obligations between roles such as Sadist/Masochist/ Dom/sub/ Top/bottom. Meanwhile, the term “SM” more often appears on the media which, though inevitably incurring a certain degree of misunderstanding, inspires more people to explore themselves and discover their SM identity.
These show that it is about time to establish a visible BDSM community in Taiwan. BDSM Company is thus founded by a group of SMers on the SEX-KKCity BBS.
Objectives
BDSM Company aims to be a visible BDSM community speaking for Taiwanese BDSMers. For practitioners, we provide BDSM-related information and consultation about techniques, legal issues, and medical knowledge, as well as social events for all BDSMers. It is a forum where people can discuss and exchange their experiences and opinions, and a platform constructing discourses, organising events, and empowering ourselves.
To the public, BDSM Company also aims to be a channel through which BDSMers’ voices can be heard by the vanilla world, as well as an active representative supporting and co-operating with other sexual-minorities.
Munches
BDSM Company holds regular munches (informal social meetings) every month. The venue is usually a vanilla restaurant or KTV in Taipei, but occasionally we may move to or co-organise a munch in southern Taiwan.
The munches usually take place in a vanilla venue in a casual, friendly manner and is intended to allow participants to know each other. Anyone interested in BDSM, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, and nationality are welcomed. Dates and locations of munches are announced on our website. Photos and records of previous munches can be found in the Munches section too.
If you intend to attend one of the munches, please email to admin@bdsm.com.tw for details.
Sitemap
The website is currently mostly in Chinese. However, we welcome submission of articles in any languages, and are the most grateful if you volunteer to translate existing articles into other languages.
The website is divided into several sections:
- Introduction to, news about, and general announcements from BDSM Company.
- A list of our monthly feature articles.
- A section reserved for famous writer Lucifier Hung.
- Interviews.
- A more academic and serious view on BDSM.
- Fictions and other literative writings.
- Misc. essays on BDSM.
- Columns reserved for dedicated writers.
- On practical knowledge and techniques. Rope bondage (shibari), wax, CBT, making of tools. You name one!
- Photos! Need we say more?
- Photos and diaries from our monthly munches!
- Collection information on legal and medical issues.
- BDSM-related news happening in Taiwan.
- As the name suggests. Your website here too?
- The interactive area. Leave a message and join our discussions!
