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cloudboy -> Wikipedia - Collarme (8/1/2006 9:31:09 PM)
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I thought I'd take a stab at writing an entry for CM on Wikipedia. I tried my best to stick to the Wikipedia format: neutrality, informative, factual, and detailed. Naturally, there is much I do not know. Anyway, here is what I came up with:
>Collarme or collarme.com is a non profit website devoted to BDSM personal ads, chatrooms, and message boards. Members may sign up for for free, can send private messages to one another, create personal profiles, maintain a personal journal, participate in chat rooms, and post messages on its diversified message board.
The online community on Collarme includes over 310,000 (three hundred and ten thousand) members from countries all around the world. The site is maintained by a staff of volunteers, and it generates operating revenue from donations and private advertisers.
The name "Collarme" is derived from a submissive or slave wanting to be "collared" by a dominant or top. The collar is the symbolic "wedding ring" or tangible symbol of committment between partners in a S&M relationship. So, "collar me" is the BDSM expression of "take me" in standard English. It represents a voluntary committment and surrender of personal control of a submissively oriented person to a dominant oriented person. This transfer of control is referred to as "power exchange," and the extent of the power exchange is a point of negotiation between the parties.
Members of collarme are typically interested in a variety of kinks including but not limited to: spanking, bondage, caning, paddling, dominance and submission, slavery, cross dressing, and many other forms of sado masochism, behavior modification, and role play. Typical roles of Collarme members include dominant, submissive, and switch and the sexual orientation of its members includes heterosexuals, homosexuals, bi-sexuals and people oriented to polyamory.<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collarme
Maybe those more knowledgable could add some more information such as:
When was Collarme formed?
Who founded it?
At what rate has its membership grown?
What is its operating budget?
Where is it based?
Has anyone ever tried to shut it down?
What impact has it had on the BDSM community?
Style and content edits welcome.
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I just have to say, I love wikipedia. Last weeks New Yorker had a killer article on it.
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