Particular topic needs in THE S & M NEWS include:

Anything that is strictly how-to, especially aimed at beginner and middle-of-the-range folks. For example:

• How to do a safe S&M Scene.
• (Illustrated) How to safely do any kind of bondage.
• Personal experiences (My first scene)
• How to please a Mistress
• Using ointments, lotions and oils, or hot wax-
• and more important How to clean up afterwards

Equipment articles:

• Making your own toys. How, why, illustrations.
• Blueprints for that bondage table, or the frame, or that nifty expandable spreader bar. Etc.

Shopping articles:

• How to buy a harness, a whip, a collection of toys.
• What belongs in every toy bag.
• What can be taken and used anywhere.
• What to look for in a mask, a sleepsack.
• How to buy rope, chain, whatever.

Social articles:

• How to arrange a party.
• How to use the Internet for SMBD.
• How to arrange your relationships.
• How to talk about them.
• Hell, even how to deliver a seminar.
• Interviews with interesting people - piercers, writers, experts, lifestylers. Pleople with something interesting to say!!

Lifestyle articles:

• How many ways do/can we do this?
• Contracts, negotiation techniques, discussions of motivation.
• What happens when something goes wrong - and how did the writer get through it, How to deal with the authorities in a kinky situation.
• Lifestyle vs. a kinky Saturday night
• Does SM work better with monogamy? Yes, No , why? Etc.

But above all else anything you think others might find helpful.

* many of the items on our list were stolen from our good friends at the SANDMUTOPEAN GUARDIAN but with our own warped spin added.