BDSM for Beginners: Your First Steps into the World of BDSM is the essential guide for anyone ready to embrace the thrilling, complex, and deeply intimate world of kink. Whether you're a complete novice or looking to refine your skills, this audiobook takes you beyond the stereotypes, offering real insights, practical techniques, and the confidence to create unforgettable experiences.

Do you want to stay in the same vanilla sex routine forever? Or are you ready to bring more pleasure and excitement to your sex life starting today? BDSM is much broader than it seems and when done correctly, is completely safe and healthy. BDSM is a journey that can be truly rewarding every time but will take effort, patience, and self-examination. If you want to begin your journey then this is where you start.

From childhood onwards, females are encouraged into subservient roles, so that taking the lead can feel strange and unnatural, even "unfeminine" and "not nice". We are discouraged from aggressively grabbing what we want, and instead encouraged to sacrifice and nurture. We are taught to be prizes, not competitors. Surely, there has to be more to life than that. Many men - the ones who value assertiveness (and even a little cruelty) in their female lovers would agree. So would many women....

Imagine a world where the usual power dynamic is turned on its head. Where women not only stop apologizing, but seize - and enjoy - control. This is the quickly-mainstreaming world of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) - and it has a lot to teach women about empowerment, negotiation, open-mindedness, and more. Popular podcaster and personal finance expert Lindsay Goldwert has traveled across the United States to meet the stars of the subculture. In Bow Down, these Alpha women show how you can reset the power dynamic in any situation to get what you want.

Each of us has a dual nature: we are light (conscious) and dark (unconscious). The dark side of our personality - the “other,” the shadow side - is made up of what we think is our primitive, primal, negative impulses - our “existential kink.” Our existential kink also drives the dark or negative repeating patterns in our life: always choosing the abusive partner or boss, settling for less, thinking that we’re undeserving, not worthy. But it also is the source of our greatest power.