Imajican
Posts: 39
Joined: 8/6/2007 From: Lincoln, Nebraska Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: cdude I've always been attracted to confident and strong women. I'm turned on by the idea of a strong woman calling the shots - guiding and directing me. I can imagine the appeal and excitement of physical pain in a sensual context as a submissive. But I'm working through my own level of acceptance with humiliation and maliciousness. I'm not comfortable with that. Is it an inherant part of the lifestyle? If this sounds like a stupid question to you, so be it. I'm totally serious. cdude Adding to the pile, for the most part. Short answer: No, it doesn't have to be. Otherwise, humiliation is firmly seated in the mind of the humiliated thus it varies from one individual to the next. Personally I enjoy humiliation play with my boy, but the thing is the things he finds humiliating are very sexy to me and ultimately turn me on thus turning him on more. (Example: begging me to be allowed to come is humiliating to him. This is erotic and stimulating, not hateful and derrogatory.) It's a swirly, delicious cycle of building things up to something amazing. I do NOT like vindictive, snarky, bitchy humiliation. I don't like that it's seen as mainstream and promoted as the way (primarily) male subs should be treated. I love and care about the people I am involved with. I cherish my boy and am in near-constant awe of how beautiful he is in his submission. I would never call him worthless and I see no thrill in calling anybody a worm or piggy or whatever. Generally I wish D/s in general were a lot more about supporting people and raising them up rather than figuring out ways to tear people down. I guess for me it's just not good karma, since within myself I am not a better person when I'm tearing somebody down in order to try and raise myself up. Sure I like to reduce him to a lump of quivering, sobbing, needy maleness, but it's not a negative experience for anyone involved. If that wasn't something he *wanted* then I wouldn't be driven to do it to him.
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