Do you have courage?

Dominance, integrity and needing to feel superior

More thoughts about dominant men and the mistake some insecure men make in thinking that being dominant means being right, superior, better than women.

2004 Oct 19 - 23:17 | 2 comments | read article |

Alpha male dominance

In a Taken In Hand relationship, the purpose of any physical force there may be is not correction but connection through dominant control. DeeMarie argues that if a man wants to be spanked, he has submissive tendencies that will be repulsive to some women reading Taken In Hand.

2004 Oct 17 - 10:13 | 24 comments | read article |

The resistant woman

Eric says he wants neither a dominant nor a submissive woman. What he wants is what he describes as a “resistant” woman. To find out what he means by that, hit the read article link now!

2004 Sep 20 - 06:21 | 29 comments | read article |

Understanding

Why would a man want to (consensually) rape the woman he loves? And why would she want him to? And why call it “rape” if it is consensual? Here is Aiden's poetic answer. Please do not hit the read article link unless rape is not a difficult issue for you.

2004 Sep 6 - 03:02 | 11 comments | read article |

Don't forget your whip

This powerful article will thrill women who crave a man's control. Such women know that it is, as the writer says, sometimes necessary to “get beyond the polite and tasteful, and into the rape aspect of discipline.”

2004 Aug 27 - 20:21 | 48 comments | read article |

Who says you have to be submissive?

Women who are high dominance tend to attract lots of submissive men. What is a woman to do if she is strong and possibly even dominant in some sense, but she is drawn to men who are even more dominant than she is, and not to submissive men? Try to suppress her strength? Try to become more submissive? Try to act submissive even when she doesn't feel it? What do you think?

2004 Jul 15 - 13:37 | 33 comments | read article |

The alpha male and masculine power

Being a phlegmatic sort of person, it is not often that the mere presence of another person has the power to do any more than make me recoil from the olfactory shock caused by their halitosis or their overpowering aftershave. But very occasionally (about once a decade) I have found myself intensely affected by the mere presence of a man – so intensely affected that it has taken every ounce of self-control to appear unmoved. Why?

2004 Apr 23 - 13:33 | 118 comments | read article |

Taken In Hand saved our marriage from doom

Baltazar (husband of CondusedofHomeCounties) talks about how they moved to a Taken In Hand relationship and how he discovered that taking his wife in hand helped stop rows getting out of hand, and may just have saved their marriage.

2004 Apr 9 - 04:28 | login or register to post comments | read article |

From vague awareness to a beautiful relationship

Don't miss this lovely account by Lady K of her development from vague stirrings when she read Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil to the beautiful Taken In Hand relationship she and her husband have now.

2004 Mar 18 - 21:19 | 2 comments | read article |

When rape is a gift

It is just about acceptable to speak of ravishing a woman, but the idea of taking a woman, or ‘raping’ her, is taboo and emotive. How could it possibly feel to a woman like a gift? And yet, many woman want this. You do not have to hit the read article link. Please don't do so if you might be upset. Only read this piece if this is not a difficult issue for you.

2004 Mar 15 - 14:49 | 366 comments | read article |

My deep dark secret

Like many Taken In Hand readers, Tasha has always felt different, and she had always feared that someone would discover her secret and react badly. Hit the read article link to find out what happened when she revealed her deep dark secret to her husband.

2004 Feb 27 - 07:24 | 1 comment | read article |

Ever-deepening total love

Ben and Clotos have been together for 33 years. In this article, Ben describes their unique relationship and their mutual surrender, and argues that “total ‘slavery’” leads to total freedom within total love.

2004 Feb 5 - 09:58 | 8 comments | read article |

She wants to be taken in hand against her will?!

The casual observer might think that Taken In Hand readers are saying that they want to be taken or taken in hand against their will, but what is really going on here? An investigation of the psychology of consensual non-consent.

2004 Jan 2 - 13:04 | 14 comments | read article |

Do you have a commanding presence?

Do you command respect and obedience without even trying? Do you have natural authority, or would you have trouble controlling even a worm? If you don't have a commanding presence but wish you did, hit the read article link.

2003 Dec 21 - 09:26 | 22 comments | read article |

The dual failures of men

Although rarely explicit, a woman will frequently give implicit permission to a man to do whatever is necessary to keep the relationship together. She then expects him to act on her permission... If the man fails to act in a timely fashion, whatever love the woman has for him will, in time, crumble into a loathing for which there is no human cure.

2003 Oct 16 - 08:14 | 12 comments | read article |