A Bunny and Her Mistress

The smutty piece of interactive fiction A Bunny and Her Mistress is free to download on itch.io, and free motivation for taking your interests offline. The 5,000 word story is rare in that it intentionally portrays BDSM “as supportive and loving and consensual,” its creator writes in its Itch description, “so you have the option to set your limits and end the night early after every scene. There are no punishments (except the fun kind) and no bad endings.”

Mistress Shayla’s advice: “If a video game shows clear and active consent, that’s a great sign. A negotiation or aftercare, great sign. Signs of not great dynamics: total power exchange or ‘sex slave’ situations with a character you’ve just met, or just ‘rescued’ in-game. Physical punishments aren’t great either. Punishing someone for breaking a rule is fine as long as the rule was pre-negotiated, but a punishment in anger isn’t BDSM, it’s abuse.”