My name is Marc. I'm a friendly 35/M person in Montreal, although I frequently travel throughout the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic for work as well. This being r/BDSMpersonals, I'm dominant and seeking folks who like to talk to, get to know, and play with dominant people. However, I don't want to give the impression that that's all I'm about and BDSM is all I want to talk about. I work in a professional environment and most people in my daily life don't know about my kinky streak.

I just finished my PhD and have started an engaging post-academic career that I'm excited about that involves a lot of travel. I enjoy board games, talking about books and tv and music and movies, camping, building fires in my wood-burning stove for warmth, exploring things I don't know about, cooking and eating good food, taking road trips to discover beautiful natural environments and vivacious and intriguing urban ones. I want to get to know you. I like learning about people and their interests. The most attractive personality trait to me is curiosity, as that seems to generate all kinds of things to talk about and experiences to share.

Given my location and the amount that I travel, your location is not super important to me and keeping things online works for me too.

Either way, I want to get to know you, not have you be a sex slave right away. I want us to be feel free to figure each other out, where our compatibilities are, what overlaps in sexual and non-sexual needs and offerings we bring to the table. That being said, I've been involved in kink for about 12 years now. I crave control, but more importantly, that feeling of mutual satisfaction with a partner who wants to be molded, managed, instructed...and to submit, please, and satisfy...and cuddle and giggle afterwards.

I want to get to know you because I want to to be able to know what you want. What gets you in a submissive headspace, what will make your skin flush red and hot with desire when you read or hear or see what I want from you.

Some things I enjoy:

-visual indicators of control through wardrobe, collars, etc.

-orgasm control and denial training and games

-Rope and device-based bondage

-Toys and machines

-Pain as a punishment and training tool, rather than out of sadism on my part.

However, I'm open and adventurous, and have found in my time that it's best to be game for many things. Every person and every interpersonal dynamic is different. I get off most from knowing I can get you to yearn for me--how that is accomplished can be flexible and ever changing, based on where curiosity takes us.

If you'd like me to find out what makes you tick, please send a message.

If you've read this entire thing, many thanks. I look forward to meeting you.

-Marc