ExtremeOwnerIL
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ORIGINAL: Faramir I use words like intimacy, closeness, and union, and for me to experience that intimacy in eros, vice loves like friendship (phillia) or familiarity love (storge) I need to have a D/s relationship that includes physical intimacy. I can't conceive of a non-intimate (in the way I am using the word) D/s relationship, but that reflects my centering, and I can de-center enough intellectually to understand what other posters are saying. I'm not saying this as an argument, but an offering that 'intimacy' takes many forms, both physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. You've acknowledged that, but I wanted to speak from a perspective of someone who has started exploring that intimacy and on being served through service as well as through sexual/'couplehood' means. I had previously centered my D/s on the physical, on the sexual. It was extremely intimate and it was/is still a good path. What I've found, as I've expanded the focus of our D/s to a more structured house, to include service other than sexual, that there are a great many paths to follow. The intimacy doesn't change, because we have that foundation of a physical/mental/spiritual bond, but it has moved on to other ways. She wants to serve, in many ways. I've given her those opportunities. I can't speak from experience, as I've never had the fortune to know a family or household that had live-in servants; from what I read in history and in personal biographies, the relationship between 'Owner' and 'property' (I'm thinking Greco/Roman history) or of 'Head-of-Household' and 'Servants' (going to Victorian or Colonial - non-slavery-service) was very intimate. Perhaps not intimate on a sexual level, but history is full of stories where the servants (and even slaves) were as important and beloved in a family as a wife or child. Why does someone volunteer? To find a fulfillment of their desire to help others? Extend that to service and a whole range of possibilities open up. Regards, EO
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