The journal
Guides to buying, placing and caring for BDSM furniture, and longer reads on the archetypes and dynamics behind it.
Latest articles
Height, shadow and pattern: how to build a gothic bedroom around a steel four-poster that still works on a Monday morning.
The four-poster began as a room inside a room. Its history, how it differs from a canopy or half-tester bed, and why the form still works.
What you can and can't know about a used piece, hygiene, the checks to make if you go ahead, and when buying new makes more sense.
The common misreadings of cage play, set against what partners who use a cage actually agree, and the rules that never change.
What a home-built cross asks of you, what's hard to check yourself, how it stands, and when building or buying makes more sense.
Texture, temperature, sound and a blindfold: what sensation play is, how to agree it, signals that work without sight, and how a cross or bed shapes...
What bondage is and isn't, the range from cuffs to rope, the rules that never change, and where to start.
What carries over from using a cross at a club, what the club was quietly doing for you, and what to think about before you choose...
A cross holds a person standing; a bench supports them. How the two compare in the room, in a scene and day to day, and which...
Good storage keeps things private, clean and off the furniture. What to store where, and how.
A good playroom floor is level, comfortable, easy to clean and quiet. How the options compare.
A playroom can read as an ordinary room to anyone who walks in. How to plan for guests, housemates and visitors.
Find your archetype, then read about it.
Three private quizzes: a readiness profile, and dominant and submissive archetype tests. Each result opens onto a long read in the journal.
See the testsAbout the journal
The Sanctum Domina journal is where we write about everything around the furniture: how to choose a BDSM bed, cross or cage, how to fix and place it, how to clean powder-coated steel, and how to plan a room that works for the people using it.
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Alongside the practical guides are longer reads on power exchange itself. The archetype series looks at five dominant styles, from the Architect to the Sensation Dominant, and six submissive ones, from service to the brat, and each piece links to the quizzes that point you towards it. The femdom guide covers rituals, rooms and the furniture that suits a female-led dynamic.
Everything here is written to be read carefully. We keep safety advice general and point you to experienced educators for anything hands-on, and every guide puts consent and conversation first. New articles go out to the mailing list, and the most useful ones are linked from the beds, crosses and cages pages.