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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/10/2008 9:31:43 PM   
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SirMGD,
I am not being snarky or accusatory. I do ask why you don't show a mastery of yourself and quit a deadly habit that not only threatens your health but also apparently is threatening the relationship?  Discipline should not just be for the s types.

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i have other habits that also 'threaten my health'.   i refuse to get any gyn care because i truely despise pap smears and mamograms. If i wanted to be injured, frightened, or degraded, i could easily find a Dom to indulge my kink.  The gyns i have seen (and by now i've seen dozens) are sadists, and i chose not to submit to that kind of experience anymore.
 
i really enjoy smoking.  i always have, since i first started at 16.  It's the only experience i've ever had with 'addiction' of any kind.  i have quit, many times, and at this point in my life i'd rather enjoy myself in this way than worry about living to be 100.
 
Not every smoker dies of lung cancer -- any reasonably observant P/person already knows this.
 
Using the word 'suicidal' to describe smokers denigrates both the real issue of suicide and smokers, all in one fell swoop.
 
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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/10/2008 11:12:36 PM   
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So it seems to me, as often is the case here on CM, that we are talking about a relationship issue, not so much a d/s issue.

I quit smoking ten years ago.  My Lord smokes, has smoked since I met him, and I have never made an issue of it.  Dumbass has asthma, and he's been considerate of that, but he is a considerate smoker, and doesn't leave messes, or make others miserable with it.

When we moved into a joint domicile, I hope he took into consideration that his smoking will negatively affect my health.  I don't know that we ever discussed it.  I do believe that if I asked, politely, for him to not smoke in my presence, he would at least make an effort to do so. 

I choose not to get involved with a man who has UM's under the age of 16.  I have spent my entire life raising UM's: I'm about done.   I'm really not so much interested in raising anyone else's, and you can't live in a household with UM's without being affected by them.  To get involved with a man, dom or vanilla, who has kids, knowing the attitude I have about it, would be a disservice to him, them, and myself.

Does it make me less of a sub because I know this about myself and look for the pitfalls in advance?  Hell if I know!  I just know what works for me.  *shrug* 

It's not so much about d/s as it is about relationship and courtesy.  Does it make her less of a sub?  I don't know.  If she doesn't want to breathe smoke, I guess she should get involved with someone who doesn't smoke.  Everyone has their limits. 

My question to the OP is this: Why does this bug you so much?  Is a sub not a sub if she sets limits regarding her own happiness?  Are we supposed to bend everything we believe because it suits you?  Or does it just rankle your pride that any lowly sub could be so unimpressed by your domliness that they are willing to set limits?  If it were me, I'd run as far away from you as I can get.  Based on your attitude, it seems you have no real interest in doing what's best for both of you as you are in making other people break their own rules.  If a person isn't good enough for you as they are, being professor Higgins isn't going to work.  Eventually, the resentment is going to come through, and the relationship is going to fail because you had to prove a point. 

Of course, that's mho.  I'm entitled to it.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/10/2008 11:35:55 PM   
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What's that song again... "Why do you drink, Why do you smoke..."


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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/11/2008 2:22:15 AM   
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To the OP:

While i might agree with you regarding submissives and slaves having too much rigidity, a long long list of "hard limits" that they might in fact do better to loosen up a bit.  But surely protecting one's health should not be considered being too rigid.  As you can see from the responses to your post, many people have a very rigid stance when it comes to smoking.  Are you saying that if a submissive had a condition that made it impossible to climb stairs, she should agree to live in a two-story home or a tree house, if "Master" wanted to?  In other words, if someone is submissive or a slave, he or she should be flexible enough to consider any and all Dominants, even those who would not respect limits and limitations?

Yes, being rigid may be preventing some from finding partners.  i knew a Dominant once who was only interested in women under 27, redheads, no children, big boobs, long legs and total pain sluts.  Granted he didn't have a plethora of partners but at least the partners he had were the ones he wanted.  So submissives or slaves too might be limiting their pool or potential partners with their criteria, but that is their right and it's up to them and them alone to discover whether or not being more flexible might land them the Master of their dreams. 

If the Master of their dreams later becomes their nightmare, well then must they stay?  If smoking is a hard limit and Master later becomes a smoker, then hasn't he breached the contract?  How would that be different if, for example, the relationship was based on monogomy and then later Master said he was going to have two more slaves? 

People are entitled to seek happiness and they are entitled to seek compatibility.  i do not think that someone who is uncollared who insists that there will be NO smoking in the home they are paying for is being too rigid.  That will only exclude some from her prospects but my guess is she will be happier with her eventual choice than if she said "oh fuck it, i need to have a master so i'll take the wrong master just to have one."  That makes no sense whatsoever.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/11/2008 4:28:54 PM   
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Just a general comment.

I smoke, dont intend to quit.

If someone doesnt like that, then dont try starting a relationship. It's part of who i am, like my skin tone, hair colour, weight etc.

D's has nothing to do with it. You fall for a person, say you want to be with them.  Why then decide that you want to turn them into someone else. Wouldnt it be easier to find who you really want to be with in the first place???


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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/11/2008 4:43:23 PM   
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Precisely frazzle, you've hit the nail on the head there. To me, the original poster is just trying to be a manipulator imo.
Like i said before, i don't smoke, but won't exclude someone that does as a possible partner, so long as they don't as a general rule smoke inside of the house.
i don't really have alot of hard limits as far as life goes, i'm a pretty accepting, take life as it comes type of person, so long as my health is being respected.
That said, i also wouldn't stop someone from having a smoke after some really good intense sex just because we happen to be indoors LOL.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/11/2008 8:50:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: SirMGD

pasted below is an email i wrote to a sub friend, who takes quite a hard stance against smoking. I am trying to quit, but haven't yet, and after some heated back and forth, during which she made it clear that "NO ONE smoked in her house", I had these thoughts, and now ask the same of you all, wondering I suppose, where the line is drawn, in a truly D/s household?;

quote:

actually R----, what I'm getting at, and something i invariably inspire;
acceptance, tolerance, and unconditional surrender.

one would think, that a submissive, more especially a SLAVE, like you, and so many others, would cultivate such traits, knowing she must, sooner or later.
What would you do if your master, who you'd been collared to for years, and whom you adored and loved, decided to start smoking? Would you dump him? ask to be released? Try to stop him? How would you exert your will? What if it were his house, or even better, you were married, so it belonged to you both legally?

I use smoking as an example, because you have such a hard stance on it. Nobody smokes in our house huh?..."even you my Master"...lol.

Such rigidity has no place in a truly submissive mind or heart. You might say that a sub has to be that way beforehand, to avoid situations, once surrendered, which she couldn't tolerate. Perhaps, but since most of the available subs I meet seem to have a multitude of similar rigidities, I often wonder if that isn't precisely why they remain available.

Sorry R----, subbies mustn't be ball-busters. Or ever plan to be.
If I ever did smoke in your house, it would be only because I knew you wanted me to, because you'd accepted me, unconditionally. because i'd made you so happy, you wanted to do something, anything, to make me feel comfortable, and I'd know you didn't mind, because you said you didn't.

I know you are incredulous at such a postulation, but it has happened to me before. I'm serious. I think what you fail to see is that a man, me, or any man, could ever make you that happy. So happy you didn't care what his kisses smelled like, or his semen tasted like. They'd be trivialities, and hugely overshadowed by any possibility of the alternative~ not having him.

just some things to ponder dear.
Your friend


thoughts?


i think what you had to say is poppy-cock, but then again, i'm a submissive smoker and no one smokes in my house, including me, and i don't care who it physically belonged to; i'd move!

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 9:54:36 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Owner4SexSlave

What's that song again... "Why do you drink, Why do you smoke..."




See as a smoker (although my Master recently quit and hates that I still do) all I can hear in my head is Adam and the Ants......

Don't drink, don't smoke
What do you do?
Don't drink, don't smoke
What do you do?
The subtle inuendo follows
There must be something inside.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 10:48:34 AM   
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While the sub/slave should not make rules for her Master.... Is it not also true that it is the Master's obligation to care for her as well as himself so he can be there for her? I would think you would want to protect her from your nasty habit....this habit that controls you...who is the real Dom here?


And, in fact, I did stop smoking for this very reason when I collared my slave.  Note I use the word "slave" here specifically to mean she's given as close to 100% of herself as she can manage and struggles to give over the remainder day by day.  In exchange, do I not owe her 100% of myself.. including my continued health and longevity?  If I cannot do the hard things, then by what right do I ask her to?  Gotta control myself first, that's how I always heard it...

Then again, I've never been a big proponent of the viewpoint that it's all about me me me, the glorious Master.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 10:59:02 AM   
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Ok,I cannot resist rocking the boat a little bit more.And hence I apologise ahead of time to any that this will offend..While as I have stated, I fully understand such a line in the sand being drawn by many that have medical issues or UM's with issues.  I find it truly amazing that some of these submissives have so many respiratory issues, that actual life and death is a factor, and yet have never smoked in their lives whilst the smokers seem not to have any such issues.I have noticed in the past 10-15 years that with the advent of demonizing smokers, many people use the excuse of it will cause me to end up in the hospital with an asthma attack, or I am allergic to the smell of smoke.It has become popular to segregate smokers, and to look down upon them with a superior sniff.But I have to question as to why so many people who do not smoke suffer so with asthma and that the children are now increasing two fold with having respiratory issues. To look at that big picture would create in many a discomfort, for then they know it would force them to realize that they too are responsible and may have to give up some creature comfort, and god forbid that happens!..Look to the air people,the pollution created by big business,yeah the same ones that manufacture goods that you have in your homes, the pollution created by your own cars, lawnmowers,motorcycles, boats..look to these as well and say..I will give these up and make them a hard limit of life because it further aggravates my um's asthma...Look to the bigger picture, and look in your mirror when you feel tempted to look down upon the smoker and sniff in superiority...Tempting


i couldn't agree with you more, Tempting.
 
IMO, many P/pl have developed a highly undesirable attitude that T/they are entitled to control the conduct of E/everyone else -- a la smoking, abortion etc.
 
It's bad enough that the government continues to intrudes on my privacy and rights more and more.  But this notion that the 'majority' of P/pl also have the right to intrude on my privacy and rights is much more disturbing to me.  I find it sinister and incidious, and i think someday soon W/we will realise this is a very poor choice.
 
pinksugarsub
 
 

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 11:09:44 AM   
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Someone can have all of the health risking habits they want to-but if they are around me in something serious-they had best knock it off with drugging and drinking. I have an absolute zero tolerance policy for that shit.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 11:19:53 AM   
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I also have a "no addict" rule.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 12:05:03 PM   
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I also have a "no addict" rule.


I pretty much covered that with the whole "no drinking or drugging" thing.

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 12:10:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: softness

If Sir wanted to smoke in my house then that is exactly what would happen. It is His choice, I am His property, He decides what is right for me.

I posted previously that I would not be obedient to His decision if it conflicted with my relgious beliefs. I now see that this was wrong. Sir has informed me that it is just plain prideful to believe my own religious beliefs are more valuable than His wishes about my reproduction. He is right of course, if He instructed me to have an abortion because to have the baby would destroy the relationship, then of course He is right and I would follow His wishes. I amde the infomed consensual decision to have Sir control every aspect of my life, and that includes my reproduction and how I judge the health and wellbeing of the relationship.

I apologise for posting incorrectly before.




Sounds to me like he is the one with the problem, but your the one who has to live with it. All I can say is good luck.

Edited to add: I have a question that's off topic, but I am going to ask anyway. Your profile says your in the UK and at the top and bottom says your taken. In the middle it describes the man you are looking for?

Also your masters profile says he is in CA....do you live together?

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 1:19:55 PM   
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ORIGINAL: orfunboi

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ORIGINAL: softness
 

Your profile says your in the UK and at the top and bottom says your taken. In the middle it describes the man you are looking for?

Also your masters profile says he is in CA....do you live together?


she just met him in person a couple or three weeks ago; they were online and on phone for 3years prior to that...

soooo, i believe she is there on a temporary visa, like the kind you get when you are on vacation. 

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 1:25:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: softness

If Sir wanted to smoke in my house then that is exactly what would happen. It is His choice, I am His property, He decides what is right for me.

I posted previously that I would not be obedient to His decision if it conflicted with my relgious beliefs. I now see that this was wrong. Sir has informed me that it is just plain prideful to believe my own religious beliefs are more valuable than His wishes about my reproduction. He is right of course, if He instructed me to have an abortion because to have the baby would destroy the relationship, then of course He is right and I would follow His wishes. I amde the infomed consensual decision to have Sir control every aspect of my life, and that includes my reproduction and how I judge the health and wellbeing of the relationship.


That has to be the sadest thing I've ever seen...he might as well control your very soul and personality, geez. Ignoring your own religious beliefs and health concerns for some man...I don't get it. I don't see how it's "prideful" to believe in something and put whatever faith or god you have before some dude who bangs you.

I'm not religious at all but I don't fault people who are. I also wouldn't want to get into a relationship with someone where my non-religion conflicts with their beliefs because that's just unfair. Same goes for smoking, I wouldn't ever get with a smoker and if the person I was with became a smoker then they'd either have to stop or get the hell out of my life.

I'm not about to be a doormat and let someone walk over me and clash with my values. Smoking is a big no-no and no man (or woman) is worth bending what I believe to be true. Especially if it comes to my health, only a doctor can tell me what's best when it comes to that.


yeah, but eventually little girls grow up and get smart, then again, maybe not!

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RE: Submission, slavery, obedience vs. Smoking - 6/12/2008 4:04:30 PM   
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Posting under the assumption that the OP assumes his own viewpoint is the only acceptable answer would naturally draw out some of the commentary I've seen here.  I don't recall seeing the OP insist his was the "OTW" [One Twue Way] though.

Taking what he said at face value, it's quite conceivable that anyone can change their "hard stances" if given an epiphany capable of influencing them to do so.  Hard limits are not supposed to change, but they can, and sometimes they do - this is meant to address what I perceived to be the heart of the point..."you hate smoking, you love a Master, you choose Master over your feelings towards smoking".  Is that really different from saying, "you hate humiliation; you love your owner; he likes to humiliate mildly in a teasing way - where's that fall, in black and white or in the gray area...?".

Personally, I read the letter and found it held a "consider before you judge" attitude.  That's a concept I can respect.  The conclusion of your judgment might lean heavily one way, but to assume it shall and always will be in a chaotic world is not necessarily appropriate.  Even when health risks fall into consideration, I'm reminded of RACK [I prefer SSC myself, but hey, the idea is out there].  Some people will risk all for the right motivation.  Does that make them good or bad?

Or just human?



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