Aswad -> RE: face slapping (8/7/2007 7:01:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Vampyrefledgling I don't feel humiliated by it though. I've been told it is a humiliating act, though I don't agree. It reminds me of my place and I love it. Actually, some would say that is the exact definition of humble: being reminded of your place. If that place is at the dominant's feet, I would have to agree that definition fits. Perhaps what you mean is that you don't feel degraded or debased? Many associate humiliation with shame or ego reduction. Technically, it isn't shame, though it can cause shame. Whether it does or not, depends on the person. Being degraded, on the other hand, takes you below your station, while being debased is to be corrupted, soiled, made impure, or (in some cases) to have one's value lowered. Few like to be debased in this final sense of the word, while more like the first three senses. Some like being degraded in the strict sense, but most seem to use it as a slightly more emphatic version of humiliated. But very many like being humiliated, in the sense of being shown their place.
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