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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/4/2007 9:24:01 PM   
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Beautifully said and I agree wholeheartedly.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/4/2007 11:30:52 PM   
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Horrified, Master Torm looks at his new concubine and levels an accusing finger at her. "You've been lying to me" he growls. "You're not really a pleasure-slave, you're just an accountant from Detroit!"

Okay, I've just read comments on a bunch of different threads that made me want to reiterate the same point over and over again. I keep saying this (and folks keep vehemently disagreeing with me) but, rather than repeat myself until I'm blue in the nail-bed, I'm going to put it all down here.

It's all just roleplaying folks. Whether online or in real life, in the bedroom or full-time, closeted or lifestyle, old-guard, new guard, even with whiped cream and sprinkles, it's all just roleplaying a fantasy scenario....okay? I'm getting tired of repeating myself.

I agree, I wear a tie, and go to work. We engage in conversations where you would swear I  care which group of millionaires wearing matching colored tight pants wins which game, even with no money riding on the game.  I am guilty of  Standing in  an elevator and pretending those numbers at the front are the most interesting thing in all the world. Sometimes I feel the weight of the 45 in my belt when I do the night deposit, and imagine I am striding through the marketplace, sabre at my side, in a bright leather scabbard. And of course just like everyone else I  put a bold face forward that I never ever fart in public. Yes that is all roll playing, totally absurd!!

OH NO.  Wait a minute. You mean those moments when you hold your slaves face, eyes blinking, in your hands, Feel her heart beating, knowing she belongs to you, body, soul , to the  last breath in her body. You mean those moments are not real?

No.

No. I couldn't disagree with you more. You have it all wrong. Although I will agree  a little imagination and roll playing, can add fun to your life, sometimes, the play  brings you truth.

Some of us use DS as a dressup game to thrill ourselves with what we might have been.

But some of us have carefully crafted a veneer of politeness and practiced conformity to help us pretend that the crocodile brain is not taking in every action and scent, ready to react with fight or flight. We ignore the voices of our ancestors, soldiers, sailors, highwaymen. We ignore our instincts,  culled by the test of survival to our forefathers for a million years. These men stood with their back to the warmth of the fire  staring out into the blinking eyes that creep in the darkness night after night, while the women and children slept unawares. We fail to cherish their legacy.

We come face to face with the embodiment of wrong headedness and inconsideration when it threatens us with harm in the act of cutting  us off in the parking lot. We deny we owe a debt to society, the gene pool, and the code duello, to jump feet first through his open window and choke him until his eyes pop. We never  face that moment when an effort of will has to be made to command your hands to open, to release; like a conversation with an unruly child, or bear the stain of a death on our hands.

I have arrived at the stage of life where my house has a whole new generation, grandchildren, who don't take me seriously. The closest thing to a criminal record I have is tickets for not wearing my seatbelt.  I protested the Viet Nam war in high school, they were coming home before my name got into the lottery. The flags and swords on my mantelpiece belong to prior generations.  I haven't jumped feet first, swinging from the roofline though a car window in years and years. So you may take it all with a grain of salt.  But ask yourself how this  guy who has never significantly harmed another human being has arrived at this stage of life. In the course of my history I have gone nose to nose with some very unpleasant, very dangerous individuals, and faced them down.  Whether you or I believe that pressing me one inch further would bring down upon these miscreants some passionate violence and biblical retribution doesn't really matter. They were there, they stood face to face, they looked into my eyes, and THEY  believed it.

We live in a time where people are absorbed by TV and online chats and literally create lives without real friends and lovers. By the light of the monitor they live without the touch of human companionship and never realize they should be lonely.  Don't deny me my moments of reality. I need those few peak moments where my primal instincts,  my plans, and my dreams all sing the same glorious song.



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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 2:11:02 AM   
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Excellent post that needs to be said sometimes.

Yeah, I know what you mean and I basically agree that respect and flexibility are necessary. Where I differ is the fact some have controlling BDSM fetishes that will slant their view of what is best for them. Tis my role to give that tilted desire to them….now and then.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 3:54:17 AM   
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Suleiman, you are a poster I respect a great deal. I don't always agree with you but you are generally well-spoken.

Very simply put then, in your explanation of the D/s dynamic (and I do understand what you are saying) our lives are merely roles, our history only chapters in the play. Today I will play the role of breadwinner, mama, neighbor, friend, and daughter.

If we could peel away these layers from the core of what we are ... I wonder what we would find ...

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 4:13:29 AM   
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Talk to them.

I think this is best part of your rant.  It's excellent advice and applies to all.  Some of us listen some of the time
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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 4:56:40 AM   
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quote:

It's all just roleplaying folks.

My unicorn disagrees!


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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 6:49:34 AM   
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Fantastic rant! I completely agree with u, and well expressed.

Have a good one!

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 7:47:12 AM   
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It is hard to see the total picture from inside of the frame......

It is hard to see the role when you are acting it.....





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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 8:03:21 AM   
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Wow, two role playing rants on the same day. Must be something in the water. We all role play our parts in life. Every action we take is a decision, sometimes consciously, sometimes not, about how we view our place in our individual worlds. We all have many roles we play. Some of us have the role of parent, or spouse, or employee, whatever. Some of us have as one of our roles Dominant or submissive, etc. They are the roles that make up our lives. Pure and simple.

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ORIGINAL: Suleiman
Look, folks - in the end, it's all just my opinion, but for the love of mike, try and show a little common sense. Treat your partner as a partner. Talk to them. Pay attention to their wants, their needs, their interests. In the long run, it helps to reinforce the role, because there's something more to your relationship than just a crumbling facade. Your Dominant is not the towering monolith of strength they'd like you to believe them to be. Your Submissive is not the whimpering doormat they pretent to be. Your kinky fucktoy occasionally just wants to snuggle. Just try and act like human beings for a while, okay? I'm getting tired of repeating myself.


This is great advice. Wouldn't it be, more or less, the same advice a vanilla couple should follow?

Namaste, Dominic

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 8:16:28 AM   
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In responce to the OP....right-on....i knew this, but wasnt sure i knew it. You have stated it very well i think. I was talking to my Master about this very thing. I mentioned that He is in fact my (for lack of a better term)  boyfriend that also happens to be a "Master" to me(He agreed with me by the way)....and it is a very satisfying relationship. I am not afriad of Him, i am not fearful in any way of Him....just happy that we found each other.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 8:44:55 AM   
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Loved this rant!  Simply put people "will be what they will be".

In terms of roles we all pick and select roles we want to play in life.
Career Roles and Roles to help us fullfill goals and ambitions in life.

We get to visualize and work towards our Roles and Goals. We pick a Role a do our best to play that role out in life.  If we don't like it, we can change our Role any time we damn well please.  We are not Grid locked into our current Roles in life.

We can be what we want to be.   Difference between "I am what I am" and "I will be what I will be".  Too many people are grid lock in life thinking or believing they can't live out their Dreams.

If we are living out roles in a consentual manner in BDSM.  Shit like kidnapping, rape, torture and owning slaves is simply against the law.   Common sense should kick in and make people realize this is just Role Playing.

In terms of D/s relationship, roles are assumed and worked at lived out in real life.  However, the submissive still has legal rights to end the relationship and has the right to demand to be treated as an Equal at any point in time.  Hence the D/s dynamics between two people can be ended by either party.  Yes, the Dom/me or the submissive can throw in the towel or call a timeout or walk away.   Both the submissive and Dom/me together are in control of the D/s relationship.  The submissive is in control of their submission level, the Dom/me in control of their Dominance levels.    Blah Blah Blah..  It takes two people to work at living out these roles 24/7...   
 

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 9:43:50 AM   
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Gosh, I didn't realize that this is a role.. I have known that I was a sadist and a control freak ever since I was four years old! As for it being fantasy? Well speak for yourself. Some play a game, to others of us it is a true way. You feel you can't own a person, a slave, and that is fine for you. However in my life I have figured out how to own them
  • Make them dependent upon you
  • Condition them to know what they are
  • Have a legal enforceable contract (yes it really can be done)
  • Make it emotionally impossible for them to leave
  • Have them fall in unreasonable and complete love with you

These are just a very few steps and each one of those could fill a book.... While it is true that I "own" several slaves they all are very long term and they are all highly unusual women too. Why would want to "enslave" a person who had no self worth... but this little mini rant of mine is something that I guess I'll have to expand upon.
Fantasy is something imaginary, and believe me for some of us this works out to be a lifetime reality.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 9:57:46 AM   
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I would like to think that in life I am not role playing...Although I don't like to admit it, but there are probably thousands of people who are similiar to myself and so that there could easily be a comparison to the life that I am living and making a somewhat direct comparison to the life of others...But at the end of the day I am an individual....I try to act in a manner that is true to myself  and be as honest to myself as possible.....In the true sense of the word I hate to role play.  My brain does not allow it to happen without laughing and having to stop from the sheer stupidity and lack of honesty that has transpired within this charade.

I don't think I have taken on the role of a hetero Dom...it is me, just like the color of my eyes and hair.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 10:14:35 AM   
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Have a legal enforceable contract (yes it really can be done)
No, it cannot... and in many juristictions a noterized contract could, itself, represent a clear violation of the law which can result in jail-time: either directly (some extortion/coersion/false imprisonment law) or indirectly (you mandated the oral sex, which is a felony in GA punishable by 5-years in jail) to name a couple of examples.

You've put up a post that, in a good world, would ensure no one on this board would ever even consider a relationship with you (not to mention that 'forced submission' qualifies both as abuse and rape... it's only the consent that makes this a lifestyle rather than a pathology).

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 10:18:54 AM   
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The word "roleplaying" implies acting... taking on a persona that is not really you.  The whole dungeon motif is arguably roleplay in this sense (which is maybe why it has never really resonated with me).   Or people calling the place they live "House of Such-and-Such".

But that doesn't mean that people cannot be authentically submissive to their partner's will.  If you are wired to derive fulfillment from D/s, then what underlies all those games can be very real.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 1:25:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BrutalMasterOne


Gosh, I didn't realize that this is a role.. I have known that I was a sadist and a control freak ever since I was four years old! As for it being fantasy? Well speak for yourself. Some play a game, to others of us it is a true way. You feel you can't own a person, a slave, and that is fine for you. However in my life I have figured out how to own them
  • Make them dependent upon you
  • Condition them to know what they are
  • Have a legal enforceable contract (yes it really can be done)
  • Make it emotionally impossible for them to leave
  • Have them fall in unreasonable and complete love with you


These are just a very few steps and each one of those could fill a book.... While it is true that I "own" several slaves they all are very long term and they are all highly unusual women too. Why would want to "enslave" a person who had no self worth... but this little mini rant of mine is something that I guess I'll have to expand upon.
Fantasy is something imaginary, and believe me for some of us this works out to be a lifetime reality.


well said, too bad few will listen or comprehend.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 1:27:53 PM   
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It's all just roleplaying folks. Whether online or in real life, in the bedroom or full-time, closeted or lifestyle, old-guard, new guard, even with whiped cream and sprinkles, it's all just roleplaying a fantasy scenario.


i don't think any one can decide what is anything for another. If you believe and are convinced that what you do is role-playing then fine. But please, why is it necessary to assume that because this is what it is for you, that it is for everyone? As a slave my dependancy on my Master is VERY real - we don't switch around and taste different positions so to speak. He is my Master and i am His slave period. There is role play in scenes and play but our D/s is as real as any others style of relationship. i don't show up as His "slave" and then run back to some other environment that i control and keep safe and separate. The trust i have to place in Him is real - He supports us - He makes real life decisions that affect us both. This is not role play, this is our reality. So if you really want to take the analysis of what's real to the enth degree you'll only discover that reality is perception. Your perception, my perception, everyone's perception. Personally anyone's insistance that what is true for them is true for everyone, i find irritating and arrogant.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 1:28:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BrutalMasterOne


Gosh, I didn't realize that this is a role.. I have known that I was a sadist and a control freak ever since I was four years old! As for it being fantasy? Well speak for yourself. Some play a game, to others of us it is a true way. You feel you can't own a person, a slave, and that is fine for you. However in my life I have figured out how to own them
  • Make them dependent upon you
  • Condition them to know what they are
  • Have a legal enforceable contract (yes it really can be done)
  • Make it emotionally impossible for them to leave
  • Have them fall in unreasonable and complete love with you

These are just a very few steps and each one of those could fill a book.... While it is true that I "own" several slaves they all are very long term and they are all highly unusual women too. Why would want to "enslave" a person who had no self worth... but this little mini rant of mine is something that I guess I'll have to expand upon.
Fantasy is something imaginary, and believe me for some of us this works out to be a lifetime reality.


Hmm, this is a very interesting opinion.. the 'born' sadist and control freak. But unfortunately I don't buy it.

Now you write that you have 'known' you were a sadist and control freak since you were four years old? Right? So are you trying to tell me you were born a sadist and control freak? Or that as a four year old you had already worked out that you were a sadist and control freak and had decided to be a Dom?

You must have been such an interesting child. Did you tell your parents 'When I grow up I'm going to be a Master'? Or did you write to Santa Claus and ask 'for a slave'?

I don't buy it at all. Let me explain why.

If you were born a sadist, then surely your biological role in life would be to make people suffer, cause pain, but where would it stop? Could you kill people?

Surely if you were born a sadist it would make an adequate defence if you did kill someone. Your lawyer would simply have to say "My client Mr X is a born sadist, and that's why he kills people." That would place you outside the law. By your reasoning someone like Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy wouldn't get convicted, because they're born sadists.

Another reason why I don't buy your argument is simple straightforward child development. Aren't all 3 and 4 year olds control freaks? Aren't they just reacting to the world, their environment and their relationships emotionally? They want something they intend to get it, and when they don't get it they throw an almighty wobbly.

Most children don't start thinking or rationalizing things until they get to about 5 or 6, which is probably why they don't start their education before this age. But you claim that you knew at the age of 4 that you were a sadist and a control freak.

What you are doing isn't reality. Not at all. While there may be genetic factors which you were born with nobody is ever born a sadist or a masochist, nor dominant or submissive, it is something they become, i.e. it is socially acquired, and it is done so through how you respond to socialization. Some external behaviour may trigger something inside you, which may be genetic or not, it could be the result of an external influence, but you still acquire such needs and such behaviour.

Now, as a sadist, you can either suppress your needs, or you can seek to fulfil them, but either way, you are assuming and adopting the role of a sadist. While it may be very serious to you, it isn't anything more than a role you perform.

And in performing a role, you function in that role.

And you have explained how you make someone your slave, but this isn't reality, these are roles and you are still playing games.

But here I am defining roles, games etc as TA or transactional analysis, which is psychoanalytical theory developed by American psychiatrist Eric Berne in the 1950's. Berne revised Freud's concept of the human psyche (the id, the ego and super-ego) as three 'ego states' - the Parent, Child and Adult states. And this is a theory on how people interact with each other.

Now let's go back to your 'reality' to making someone your 'true' slave. You wrote:

You feel you can't own a person, a slave, and that is fine for you. However in my life I have figured out how to own them

* Make them dependent upon you
* Condition them to know what they are
* Have a legal enforceable contract (yes it really can be done)
* Make it emotionally impossible for them to leave
* Have them fall in unreasonable and complete love with you


These are just a very few steps and each one of those could fill a book.... While it is true that I "own" several slaves they all are very long term and they are all highly unusual women too.

Now in each of the verbs which I have highlighted you are doing something through which you are entering into interaction with another person, you are entering what is known as a transaction because you are anticipating a response, and it is at this very point that you are playing a role. You are seeking a productive social interaction, are you not?

It is a game, and I define a game here as a series of transactions (interactions) that are complementary (reciprocal) or ulterior and which proceed towards a predictable outcome.

Games are often played by all three ego states - Parent, Adult and Child, they usually have a fixed number of players, but however a players role can shift. Now each game has a 'payoff' for whoever is playing it. The payoff can be to earn sympathy, satisfaction, vindication, or some other emotion which reinforces the life's script.

And yes, each and every one of us is living to a script in life - it could be a winning script, it could be a losing script, a Cindarella script, but it is a script and we are playing our role in that script.

Now the game may have an antithesis which breaks the script and deprives the other player of the payoff. As an example a submissive may approach a Domme on Collarme by writing a message (taking on the role) expecting her to respond (the payoff). The Domme may respond and thus take up the role of Domme and enter the transaction, thus giving the submissive his payoff, or she may not respond, in which case she has responded with an antithesis.

What you are doing is playing a role through your Parent ego state and entering into a transaction with a female submissive who you expect to play the role through her Child ego state. You are anticipating a payoff, which is to make that female submissive your slave and each transaction or interaction you enter into is designed to have that same payoff - and you need that payoff to be able to continue to play or perform your role in your life script which is as a Dom or Master who owns female slaves.

Ergo, it is a role and you are playing that role and living your script, just like everyone else on this planet. You perceive it to be reality. I don't. I'm not you,I don't live your life, I have my own reality and am living my own script. However I am not saying you are wrong to claim what you are living is reality, you are right. However I have my own perception. What is 'reality' anyway if not 'the truth as it appears to you'?

You may choose to disagree with me. I would be very interesting in hearing your arguments. I would also be very interested in reading your book.

But I stay with my original position which is in full agreement with the OP that we are playing roles.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 6/5/2007 3:12:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BrutalMasterOne


Gosh, I didn't realize that this is a role.. I have known that I was a sadist and a control freak ever since I was four years old! As for it being fantasy? Well speak for yourself. Some play a game, to others of us it is a true way. You feel you can't own a person, a slave, and that is fine for you. However in my life I have figured out how to own them
  • Make them dependent upon you
  • Condition them to know what they are
  • Have a legal enforceable contract (yes it really can be done)
  • Make it emotionally impossible for them to leave
  • Have them fall in unreasonable and complete love with you

These are just a very few steps and each one of those could fill a book.... While it is true that I "own" several slaves they all are very long term and they are all highly unusual women too. Why would want to "enslave" a person who had no self worth... but this little mini rant of mine is something that I guess I'll have to expand upon.
Fantasy is something imaginary, and believe me for some of us this works out to be a lifetime reality.


Agreed.

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RE: It's all just roleplaying (a rant) - 1/2/2008 11:02:36 PM   
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. . .until somebody loses an eye?

*runs away*

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