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Aswad -> RE: Religious Discipline (6/4/2007 8:19:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CitizenCane
'Explicit prior consent' may be the hallmark of 'lifestyle BDSM', but it's not necessarily a prominent or even present aspect of D/s.
Fair enough. By that logic, wife-beating would appear to be a subset of D/s, though, unless the wife leaves. Which is rarely the case.
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First of all, the term 'Explicit' is something that tends only to be useful in a narrowly defined situation- as, for instance, a BDSM 'play' session, where people can agree in advance on the minutest details of their interaction in the scene. In the open-ended context of a long-term relationship based on dominance and submission, it's not practical.
By "explicit", I mean "actually communicated", as opposed to "taken for granted".
It is possible to explicitly (in that sense) give prior informed consent to entering into open-ended slavery in a dictionary-definition sense of the word.
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Power imbalances exist in all relationships, the distinguishing feature of D/s is that they are formalized and actively embraced- and this combination generally involves a great deal of ritualization.
Yes. And "formalized" carries much the same connotation as what I mean by "explicit".
As for ritualization, I've seen people do it with and without.
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Wife beating is certainly about dominance and submission, but it lacks the formal aspects of what we recognize as D/s.
~nod~
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