Welcome to 50 Shades of Common Sense: A Comprehensive Guide to BDSM! In this guide you will find a variety of basic knowledge you will need in order to navigate the wondrous world of BDSM. If you are new to the lifestyle may I be the first to welcome you to the life style! I hope that this guide helps to inform you as you dip your toes into this lifestyle and that you have a wonderful and fulfilling journey. If you are a novice looking to increase your knowledge or a veteran looking to brush up on certain topics this guide is a good place to start. There is information in these pages for all levels of knowhow and skill.

This guide is broken up into four parts and covers over 30 different topics spanning from "What Is BDSM?" to "What You Need to Know about Collaring". While this guide is as the title suggests comprehensive, it is not "the end all that be all" and doing your own research is highly recommended before practicing BDSM. There is an excellent list of resources at the end of this guide for further research.

In writing 50 Shades of Common Sense: A Comprehensive Guide to BDSM, my hope was to give individuals, such as yourself, knowledge that I myself would've wanted when I first started out. You may be asking what qualifies me to give such knowledge. First off, I will say that I am not a BDSM Expert™ (spoiler alert: BDSM Experts don't exist). BDSM is too broad of a topic and literally is only bound by consent and your imagination; there is no way to be an expert in it. There may be expert riggers or experts in certain kinks, but not in BDSM as a whole. I do however have about 10 years of experience in the life style and have been in a few dynamics on both sides of the slash of which my longest dynamic lasting 5 years.