My life is complex. I should probably say, "our life." I'm married (no, I don't share), I'm a Master and Owner in mindset, even with those who I do not own or master. That is to say, I'm always aware of the value of other people, because that's what I do; that's how my brain and personality come together. I'm seriously into BDSM as an ethos and an ethical system; I'm a Lifestyler and I have some seriously beautiful BDSM-Related designs. 

I'm also an Autism activist - because I'm on the Autistic  Spectrum. I'm also a multiple personality with a complex system. I consider this a feature, rather than a bug; my multiplicity has enabled me to survive a combination of stressors such as autism, family and scholastic abuse and social phobia with a degree of style and grace. But there are certain oddities involved in that, one of which is that while the body is male, many of our more vital and interesting members are female. On Second Life, I'm known as DeNovo Broome, an alternate expression of one of our more important persons who deals with the things that still go bump in the night.

Since we process everything visually, artwork is how we do much of our actual thinking, and we have had to think a great deal about matters of power, the nature of evil and the meaning of abuse, we are using Second Life as a means to explore the ideas that exist side by side in company with many who seem to be seeking to turn over the vary same rocks to see what may lie underneath. Some might see it as indiscreet or unwise to reveal such details; for ourselves, we have always found that secrets of that sort tend to cause more problems than revealing them creates.

Consider us a deliberate example of a person(s) trying to live a concious, mindful and ethical life. Much of that arises from confronting and befrending one's shadow selves.

Trust me, you will enjoy your small part in the Jung and the Restless.

Of course, as an artist and explorer with a background in BDSM erotica, I seek out and create darkly interesting things. The vast bulk of our work is mature, erotic, horrifying, torturous, disturbing or all of the above. Generally I refuse to state whether I'm making a statement in favor of or a statement against, but a lot of my work draws from a past that I'd not care to repeat.

But I long ago learned that art that I THINK will squick the hell out of every normal human being OR will cause them to be jogged out of a purely sexual frame of reference will turn out to provoke the complete opposite in some folks - indeed, some perfectly decent folks. Even worse, I've found that some people who like my work for all the "right" reasons are also people that squick ME to the bone.

So I've simply given up trying to define the aspects of social consciousness that you "should" be aware of. All I ask is that you be aware that there IS more to it, even as it provokes involuntary swelling. Because, frankly, if it didn't cause something to suddenly expand OR shrink, I probably missed my mark.

As to the "openness" of myself and my household, I am open considering (carefully) the value another person could bring , particularly one that would work well with my art. They would have to be genetically female, petite, young, attractive by my standards, submissive and wiling to abandon all drama and pretense. In return, I will use them as I will, with the understanding that I do not break my toys nor abuse people, whatever our relationship. I make a fetish of trust, I suppose, and that means I must be worthy of it.  I am also "open" to portrait work and discreet digital photography in my local area - with the understanding that I have the right to use any images I capture in my art. By the way, on SL, DeNovo Broome and BP Blackburn are one and the same. I am not Bob King there, unless you specifically ask. Rarely, BK Broome logs in - and that IS, quite literally, Bob King. It seems that Second Life makes it much harder for us to "timeshare." At any rate; our antics there are recorded at The Shrike's Song.