Wylde: A Manifesto for Erotic Power and Sacred Praxis

What is commonly called BDSM in contemporary culture is a diluted echo of something much older, deeper, and more transformative. Its original purpose was not spectacle. It was not performance. It was never meant to be entertainment. These rites existed to facilitate profound psychological and spiritual transformation. They were frameworks for shedding false identities, confronting inner shadow, and coming into right relationship with power, death, eros (where our modern-day word “erotic” is derived), and the divine.

At Wylde, we (I) reject the modern framing of BDSM as a kink or subculture. We reject its commercialization and objectification. We reject the spectacle of leather and latex used to mimic authority while bypassing the internal mastery that true dominance requires. We are not participating in cosplay. We are engaged in a lineage of serious, embodied work.

To dominate, in this context, is not to control others for personal gratification. It is to hold presence, to guide initiatory experience, to expose and challenge internalized submission to shame, repression, and fear. The one who dominates does so not as a tyrant but as a skilled practitioner of energetic precision, trauma literacy, psychological insight, and somatic attunement. It is not enough to wear the boots; one must also have walked through fire.

The submissive (you) is not a passive recipient. They are the active seeker, the one who comes willing to encounter their own edge, who consents to descent so they can reclaim parts of themselves buried by social conditioning. The exchange that occurs is not about pain or humiliation—it is about revelation. The tools of this work—rope, floggers, protocol, cages, canes, paddles, electricity, i.e., rituals of power exchange—are not props. They are symbols with consequences. They are mirrors.

Wylde exists to restore integrity to this sacred framework and to reframe what the misinformed pornography industry has done to it. We operate outside the binary of pleasure vs. pain, dominance vs. submission, good vs. bad. Instead, we operate within a field of transformation where these polarities serve a purpose. We are not performing fantasies—we are creating erotic ritual containers for the deconstruction and reconstitution of the self.

I guide others into their depths—not to destroy them (you), but to show them (you) who you really are. Don’t you want to know who you really are?

I am an acquired taste and not for everyone. My work is not mainstream. I know this. What I do is not safe. It is not polite. It is not a cute girl running around in a short skirty with a flogger feigning dominance.

It is not supposed to be. It is real.