AquaticSub
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ORIGINAL: kemicca Hey guys - this is cross-posted to the "ask a dom" forum too... I'd like to get a sub's perspective because a sub is more likely to have felt something close to what I'm feeling. If you have, I'd love to hear how you dealt with it. I mean, what I'd really LIKE to hear is that I'm not being selfish at all, this is totally normal, etc. But I suspect I won't hear quite what I like. Please, if you have some honest feedback for me, I'd really like some advice here. I've been on this site a little while now and I think I seem to be kind of between a rock and a hard place. I'm getting a little frustrated because there's a whole world here that I want to be a part of, but I don't know that I can be with my current boyfriend. Maybe it's just that we're both inexperienced. Right now I can't say anything about my own tendencies for certain: I want to say I have submissive tendencies, but the things I'm tempted to request from my boyfriend to help me explore them feel a little like topping from the bottom. Don't worry about that. If you suggest an activity to him and he says "No, never, not no way no how" and then you start nagging at him that could be topping from the bottom. But just suggesting something? Hell if subs never suggested things many a hot night would never happens. Doms aren't the only ones with good ideas! quote:
Here's the thing: He wants to dominate me. Sometimes. We ran a couple of scenes and they were so powerful for me that they flared up this very sudden, very intense interest in exploring my submission further. Suddenly I'm thinking about things like heavy bondage, humiliation, whipping, face-slapping, orgasm control, sensory deprivation. I feel like there's a whole world of sensation out there that I want to explore. But I feel like my boyfriend, although he says he's interested in exploring that, and though he seems to be really into it when we do run a scene (it's been nothing but light bondage as of now), doesn't seem interested in it enough to even want to explore any of this. He'll text me something sexy about... well, it's always on the same theme: penetration. I can't count the number of times I've gotten texts with the words "all your holes filled" and such. I don't know if I'm being greedy. I mean, if I'm really submissive, than why would I be asking for more? Wouldn't I be satisfied with just making him happy? When I ask myself that... I'm forced to conclude that no, I'm not satisfied. But Jesus - how does a submissive guide a dominant through something like this? And again, why would I even do that? It's the opposite of what I want! Easy. Ya just do it. He can't read your mind. He has no way of knowing what makes you hot, horny and excited unless you tell him. Depending on how you look it, you can even say you are being bad by not providing him with useful information about yourself and your desires! quote:
I feel like I'm asking something of him when I shouldn't be asking anything. The amount of responsibility a dominant must assume is staggering. How can I possibly ask him to take control over me when he doesn't seem to care one way or another? How do you tell a person you're asking to dominate you that his constant harping on the same theme is boring and no longer exciting you? And what does it make me that I'm even having these thoughts? Am I being selfish and lazy, just wanting him to take control over me but magically do everything that I want? But communicating this stuff to him just feels so distasteful! How the hell do you tell your boyfriend that you fantasize about having your face slapped during a scene? I mean, if he's not coming up with that himself, it must not be something he's interested in. And that makes it topping from the bottom... right? If telling your dominant that you wanted/needed something was topping from the bottom, just every sub in the world would be guilty. Stop freaking out about topping from the bottom because the whole thing that matters in the world is if you and he are happy. If he doesn't think you are topping from the bottom, then screw everyone else. When Valyraen and I got together, I told him I could deal with being in a semi-vanilla relationship but that as a submissive I had needs. I needed kinky sex on a fairly frequent basis. I explained what collaring meant to me and why it was important to me. He agreed to fulfill the kinky sex and to consider collaring me at some point. As time went on, he exerted more and more dominance over me. At another point I expressed a desire to try living a 24/7 lifestyle. He said he wasn't sure so I dropped it. Later he brought it up and we discussed it and then agreed on it. Never did I force his hand (save that I simply couldn't be with him if he could not indulge me with scenes) and he made all those decisions. But if I had not expressed an interest, he probably would have be content with where we were. Expressing an interest is not topping from the bottom. Refusal to accept his decision is another story however. quote:
Gah. I just feel so frustrated and upset with myself. I feel like I'm going in this useless circle and becoming more and more dissatisfied. Part of it is that we haven't even seen each other in a month and he's been really stressed (the reasons are related, but it's life-stuff that doesn't really need to be gone into). That will be going away shortly and who knows... maybe once he can focus on me more he'll want to explore his own dominant side more. I guess what really concerns me is the fact that we might just not be suited for each other as dom/sub. But nobody can tell me whether it's worth it to leave a good relationship, a man I love and who just... complements me so well in other ways, to explore fantasies that for all I know, I might grow tired of in a year. I don't know that the questions I'm asking even have answers. I guess I just want to know if they're normal. If other people have gone through this. I dunno why that's important to me, but it is. Like Valyraen said - there are very few mind readers. Why are you expecting him to be? Dominants and masters are no different than regular folk. They are just wired to dominate. That doesn't mean they will magically know you are into face-slapping or heavy bondage. That doesn't mean they will know you are interested in taking bondage out of the bedroom, keeping in the bedroom or anything. If you want something to change, then you have to get over your paranoia about topping from the bottom and express your interests and desires. I admit that is hard to do - I have trouble with it to. But worrying about topping from the bottom seems to be more obessing about how other people will view you and yours. As long as you two are happy, no one else's opinion really matters. Even mine. Edited for typos
< Message edited by AquaticSub -- 5/14/2007 3:20:20 PM >
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