- Servitude - In Service to Ecstasy.
 
The Temple
     

The Temple of Aphrodite
The spiritual nature of sexuality is widely acknowledged amongst those who practice BDSM. That understanding may influence the way a scene is played out, but play space is generally constructed as a dungeon rather than a nest.

 

The Temple of Aphrodite places the dungeon within the context of a temple dedicated to the practice of all the sensual arts. As with the Roman Bath, moving from hot to cold and back again, the temple facilitates the ecstatic experience by offering the opportunity for explicit eroticism in a safe and beautiful environment. When the psyche has been opened and changed through discipline and torment, it can be reassured and stabilized through erotic pleasure. After the thorns, for a while, the petals, perhaps with the inevitability of more thorns to come.

The temple is, above all, a place of loving sexuality. It is a safe place for women to bring their lovers or be by themselves to explore their erotic potential within a ritualized spiritual setting. The temple priestesses serve in the same role as the dungeon master, ensuring that inappropriate or disruptive behavior is dealt with immediately.

Practitioners are greeted with a simple, beautiful ritual of cleansing, reminded of the intent of the space, anointed, and invited to enter. The outer temple is place of quiet exploration. Hugging, touching, gentleness. You may stay there for your entire visit, but there is also the inner temple beckoning. There, you may go further. As far as you want within the limits of respect for others in the space and for your partner(s). Remember this is a place of ecstasy, and of finding the transformative spiritual power of that experience.