Readers Jason and Haley responded to our request last issue for tales of unusual rituals in people's lives. We thought you might enjoy the way they've taken some of a much harder-core lifestyle than theirs, and made it part of their daily life.

Haley finally found the right DaddyDom-type for her about six months ago, and moved to be with Him a month ago, so the rituals of her new lifestyle are still fairly new to her. Jason is a carpenter and works at home on the farm they now share.

This has only been edited for typos, and to globally replace the Yahoo Messenger ID's.

BACKSIDE_OF_LOVE: I'm chatting in a YM conference with Haley and Jason, who have what I'd call a mostly DD relationship (Domestic Discipline), but also find that some ritual from other genres helps that atmosphere. I found that interesting, and asked if they'd talk a little about it.

BACKSIDE_OF_LOVE: Haley, you told me about the physical rules you have when around Jason. Will you talk about those?

HALEY: I don't know if it's the kind of ritual you were looking for but some of my rules are about body positions and stuff like that? I used to think I wanted to be a real slave, ya know? I tried out the Gor stuff and didn't like the coldness of it but I really liked the body positions of respect that a lot of Gorean people are into.