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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, and bi
sexuals.