robertolapiedra -> RE: Dominance and submission? (6/5/2007 7:44:34 PM)
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Hello WhiplashSmile. You made me "smile" with the "jailor" analogy as I am a corrections officer... [;)]. Let us ponder "this" analogy: Paintball! we go and play war games, based on whatever "fantasy" you may have going on (Rambo, soldier, terrorist or the equivalent of a "snow ball fight" you are reliving). You have a group consenting in a safe, sane way to have "fun". No bullets, safety equipment, negotiations, time limits etc. The reality is "playing", "sport", tactical "chess", ie a war sport (war like). You run, you hide, use tactics (intellect) and try to win your objectives. Some may be in a fantasy world (like children playing, I'm Rambo you are George Patton etc), some may be in the athletic mode (like running an obstacle course), some may be in the tactical mode (tactical chess players). Each individual has his own "level" of reality which is more a mix of "motivations" than the only "one" fantasy mode. When we discuss roles in this analogy, we are talking "sport" not fantasy. The reality is not "soldiers" at war with one another. You may fantasize that you are when in play, but it is still paintball. The reality is playing Paintball. Someone compairing "real" war to "paintball" (and vice-versa) proves nothing. Now, I have a "role" in a D/s relationship. It is not "acting", it is not fantasy, it is half of a dynamic same as any other vanilla dynamic (unless vanillas are acting too?). There may be "some" fantasy going on, it does not mean it "is" a fantasy. Fantasy is "part" of life, it permeates everything and stems from the creativity of desire. (DisneyWorld is fantasy based, but you still have "real" buildings with "real" functions for entertainment , and the same "real" infrastructures as "non-fantasy" based venues.) If one comes from the fantasy "play" aspect of BDSM, one may not easily see what is going on in longterm D/s. I do not play a "role" in the "fantasy" mode, I am living in a 24/7 relationship. When it's vanilla, it's a real role? When it's D/s, it's not? Am I "acting" because of a different power exchange from the norm? Am I "acting" because my wife and I have a different "outlook" on sex than the norm? Am I "acting" because for fun, we play at something else than vanilla paintball? We all have fantasies, but we live and we "act" in the real world, and this with "real world" consequences, not "fantasy world" consequences. One should not take the "part" for the whole, even it seem's like an "acting part" at first glance. RL.
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