Violence in the Garden by Polly Peachum

Vio­lence in the Gar­den by Polly Peachum was my first expo­sure to BDSM a long time ago, even before the Spi­der. It changed my life. Before then, I thought BDSM was all about leather and chains and fash­ion. After read­ing that arti­cle, I knew it was my life.

I found the arti­cle on the submissivewomenspeak.net web­site, which is now defunct. I devoured that web­site many times over and picked apart every­thing Jon Jacobs and Polly Peachum had to say about slav­ing. For­tu­nately, Tak­en­In­Hand is host­ing at least this one arti­cle as a monument.

Note that while I like many of Jon Jacobs’ ideas about own­er­ship, I cer­tainly do not care for his elit­ist and iso­la­tion­ist think­ing. All in all, though, his inti­mate con­nec­tion with his slave and how she was his major­domo and even a part of him struck a chord with me. She may have been his prop­erty, but she was also his com­pan­ion. I envied them both their relationship.