MstrssPassion -> RE: needing good advice (7/5/2005 4:44:40 PM)
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To the original poster... You can ask that question 1000 times & you will get 1000 different answers. So here is yet one of those thousand responses you will receive <wink> I am one of those that don’t believe in "slaves" & before I get blasted from all directions... I say this because to me a slave would be someone that has been conditioned since they took their first breath that their only role in life would be to serve. I just do not think that the general population at age 20, 30, 40 or over is capable of switching off years of having choices & making choices for themselves & give that complete power to another. Talk about grinding gears. Not to mention, I also think this is why there are so many 'formerly-owned-slaves' that leave relationships pouting about what an ogre/control freak/abusive/(insert word) S.O.B. their Master/Mistress was. They simply were burned out from trying to live life by complete rule & found out it wasn't all fluffy pillows & fancy curtsies. In all my years & with all the people I have ever known within this way of life, I would say that I have met only a handful of people that would come close to this description. So again before I am blasted by the masses that refer to themselves as being a slave, call yourself what you will for whatever your or your Master's reasons are & I truly respect that... but for my own practice & understanding, for my relationships, it just isn't plausible I believe that in a giving/sharing relationship between a dominant & submissive where consistency, trust, respect, communication, time & unconditional love is involved one might appear slave-like. As to submissive, well this is the yin & yang of it all. Dominants seek out submissives. Yet that is not 100% true for everyone... I have known & I am quite close friends with several couples that do not fit this mold. Do they 'switch' within their relationship? Nope. A few are poly & have other dominants & submissives in their families. The submissive couple I know offer themselves out for SM interaction but are only sexual with one another. As to the term switch... I define this as someone who is equally prepared at any giving moment to both serve & be served. As to physical interactions between people (SM) this is an entirely different set of terms which I understand as being a top or bottom. Dominant, submissive, slave & switch would all fall more under what a persons mind set is & not who swings the whip & who feels the sting. (side note: recoil not included in previous statement, doms who play with whips know exactly what I am talking about [;)]) MstrssPassion
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