liminalRapture
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ORIGINAL: shootingstar67 Education,Income and maybe even IQ. I would add access to resources, and ease in society to your list. And while it isn't part of social status, I think age and, for me, height, is an important part of the equation. For me, I must have intelligence and I also need to have someone who thinks and speaks quickly. The funny thing is, I don't need wisdom. I would love wisdom and I wish wisdom were as important to me as intelligence, but it is only important on an intellectual level--it isn't part of the chemistry for me. Intelligence is all about chemistry. When someone speaks slowly, I get bored. I'm pretty damn smart and really over-educated and ideas excite me. They, frankly, turn me on, almost literally. A good conversation makes my face light up, brings me into the present moment and engages me and nothing can make up for it. I've also noticed I must be with a man who respects my intelligence. I played dumb for a while and I have a tendency to fall into that when I feel like it is what the man is looking for, but I could never sustain it. If I feel like I'm being expected to play dumb, I'll do the role for the evening, but I'll never contact him again. For me, income isn't important as long as he is taking care of his own financial life. (I tend to be turned off by men that spend a lot of money to impress, but that isn't really a status thing as much as trying to prove status.) The funny thing is, I always offer to cover my half on a date, but whenever I do cover my half, he is never interested in me. It is almost like him paying for my drink reminds him of my value, or something horribly unPC like that. Education, all things being equal, it would be nice if he had a terminal degree in his field (I have a doctorate, which can intimidate some men), but my most serious relationship was with a VERY smart man with a GED. That said, a year in, we started having serious clashes in values that I think would have been less pronounced if he and I had had more similar backgrounds. Access to capital: All things being equal, it would be grand, but I'd never even know until I was already so smitten it wouldn't make a difference one way or the other. Ease in society: This is a big one for me. Someone who is going to discuss flogging, or even the name of this website, loudly enough for someone at the next booth to overhear, is never going to work for me. I'm incredibly private. I have noticed some bdsm people who, upon breaking this social taboo, choose to break all of them. I'm just not comfortable hanging out with them. I went to a munch at a diner once and a guy pulled his can out of a case and started discussing it loudly and there was an 8 or 9 year old girl watching, confused. I was ashamed to be at the table with him. It was not appropriate and that is a big one. Age: Oy--this is a big one for me. I would rather have a man who is older, but not more than 10 years or so. I want to look up and respect someone. I've never had a man significantly younger than me be able to actually dominate me. I intimidate them. I'll give them a look that says "I'd like to see you try" and they don't realize it actually means "yes--please try--if you can match me, if you can overcome that look, I'll be yours." Height: For me, this is part of dominance. I want to be able to struggle and lose. I want to feel smaller than him. I do my part by always checking his height and not wearing heels that make me as tall as him. There was one guy I met who was my height, but he was quite strong, so it would have been fine if we'd been headed on the same path.
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