gentlethistle
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ORIGINAL: kiyari From the outside (of D/s) looking in, this does seem a common motif here in forums. It is a large part of what I just do not understand, about the 'dynamic'. The 'inferior' (sub/slave) must needs continually jump through hoops, be required to do things known to be abhorrent to them... ...just saying: this is what I see Not making any judgement calls LOL so, no flames por favor! kiyari On the face of it, this may seem peculiar to you....that anyone might actively seek out or be enthusiastic to perform something that they definitely don't like (in the action's own right). But think of it, perhaps, in the context of a vanilla couple deciding what to watch on TV or where to go to eat. Can you not imagine there being a perfectly 'normal' urge to sacrifice to the other's preferences....for the partner's pleasure....which in turn makes the person giving up their own preferences happy to know that the other will be happy (whether it's eating Italian rather than vindaloo, or watching golf rather than a Jane Austen costume drama etc etc). The parental instinct is another arena in which 'sacrifice' of one's own pleasure is regarded as entirely normal. Personally, I see submissiveness as a sort of spectrum, rather than some sort of binary state that you either have or have not. But then I suspect sexual orientation is that way too. Social conditioning will probably tend to polarise people towards their own tendancies because they will be more likely to seek out relationships that enforce them [Edited to add that I meant 'reinforce' them...but the Freudian slip is quite funny] (perhaps...it's early in the morning, I'm probably talking tosh!) Laura P.S. Actually, personally, I'm not continually being asked to do things that are abhorent to me...although I may occassionally be asked to do things that I don't feel inclined to at the time...but that's just my own particular situation...other relationships will differ.
< Message edited by gentlethistle -- 8/9/2007 10:42:22 PM >
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