AAkasha -> RE: The reality of many searching submissives: the cock issue (10/27/2007 9:24:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy You have to see the ironies around yourself, which in this case, you are not really in the dating market and you have a limited interest in anyone you date. No matter how you spin it, those elements qualify your perspective and shape how you come off as an advisor. Truly you want your readers to embrace what BDSM has to offer (good) --- but the translation of your own experiences as a broad template for others sometimes strikes me as a little off. I know your project, I read the other thread. Folks there, including me, were skeptical. You too were skeptical, citing several crash and burn endings to your relationships when "feelings" popped up. The threadline thesis rebuttal to your project was the unrealistic expectation of keeping everything on a third-date level of expectation, excitement, and feeling. That's a bit of doomed project with a single person and a complex one with a married person. How I come off as an "advisor"? Good lord. Do you think I care if some people (namely you) think that the way I manage my relationships makes me a bad source for advice? Guess what? Don't listen to my advice then. And now, you take examples from a previous thread (two of the other examples in it were from more than 8 years ago) and misconstrue them. If you look at my span of relationships over the last 21 years, the few hiccups as I was finding my feet are insignificant compared to the multiple successful intimate and casual relationships - from boytoys to piggies to deep, passionate loving relationships that spanned 2+ years in most cases. And these are all intimate, non-paid, real life, in the flesh relationships, not online fantasies. I've had lots of non-intimate, very casual, but very mutually rewarding relationships with men. Just because I highlight some of the pitfalls doesn't mean they are all bad. You seem simply set on derailing the idea that I am in a happy, functional, passionate femdom relationship and also am on the road to satisfying relationships on the side. The fact that I insist that I don't break any hearts along the way by having men get too attached to me is a bad thing? Please. I know women who would actually enjoy getting men attached to them, making them kiss her ass, sort of non directly laying out "hints" that "Sure, maybe, you never know...who knows what might happen in my relationship...." so that he pines for her, only to treat him like shit and kick him to the curb after he's written love poems and sent her roses every Valentine's Day. Some sadistic women enjoy treating men like shit that way, and figure hey - these guys are garbage, replacable, and submissive so they must like it deep down anyway. My morals prevent me from doing that. The fact that I don't want to *hurt* anyone emotionally, and that I treasure my primary relationship in a way that makes me want to steer blazingly clear from any guy who starts to hope that maybe he can someday be my boyfriend, does not make me less attractive to a great many male subs that are trying to get their feet wet. In my other post I was questioning whether the intensity of BDSM makes men seem to "fall" for women when they clearly know they are off limits. It's not about the reality of whether or not casual relationships happen. I have had dozens of them. I'm sorry you have a problem with that. I will continue to have dozens of them, and I will continue to end relationships if I feel the man is getting too attached to me, because it's not fair to him. Second, that kind of intimacy can develop mutually Perhaps you are in a ho-hum relationship with your primary and it's one of those "mostly lacking but not worth getting out of" or "well she's really my best friend too, and most of the relationship is fine." I am in a relationship that grows deeper every day, I love my man more than life itself, I treasure him so deeply that I would do anything for him, and our romantic and sex and kink life is thriving. There's no way in hell I am going to screw that up because I like playing with boys on the side - so you better believe I'm setting my boundaries very clear. Maybe more experienced poly people are at a level of romantic maturity that they can foster feelings like love and romantic love with multiple people at the same time. Maybe in ten years I will be there, too. I don't crave that right now though. And more importantly, I find it too risky. Akasha
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