daddyncherry
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ORIGINAL: Noah
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ORIGINAL: kails
It was pointed out to me recently that I dont flinch when im being cropped. (Nor do i when im being paddle, flogged, caned or whipped unless u really really hurt me)
lol ... I didnt know i was supposed to flinch. Ive always enjoyed the pain flowing thru my body and releasing the endorphins. Flinching just ruins it.
When I learned to shoot I was instructed not to flinch. I understood that to mean that I shouldn't react in an anticipatory way to the big bang and jolt which was about to happen as I pulled the trigger.
That's what I think of flinching as, a response--not so much to what actually comes as to what is expected. If a blow fails to land, whether accidentally or intentionally, and I see tensing, let's say, that might have been the response to an actual blow, I count that as a flinch rather than a reaction. Nothing that happens after the strike counts as flinching for me. What happens in the milliseconds before the strike might be one.
You're free to use the words any way you like. I find this usage of "flinch" as opposed to "react" as a handy way to denote in language a distinction I see in practice. For me flinch and react are almost antonyms rather than almost synonyms, in that particular sense I've tried to describe.
I generally don't prefer to see flinching. I've sometimes enjoyed training it away. As for reactions after the fact, there can be all kinds and I enjoy exploring the whole range.
... well, a whole lot of it. Things like coma and death are too edgey for me.
Sometimes I want a stifled reaction, sometimes the reaction I want is no overt reaction at all. Sometimes I like to see it all hanging out.
As for why I tend to dislike flinching (in my restricted sense of the word), well who knows why we like or dislike things? I'm suspicious of theories about things like that. I guess I can offer that I see the absence of the flinch as a very active sort of passivity, a willingness and openess. In short a very submisive way to be.
Then again, some sorts of anticipatory squirming can be so cute ...
Just a few more taut little threads in life's rich tapestry.
Noah,
Your description of flinch is the same as mine...i thought that was just a given but i'm glad you made the distinction....will be interesting to see what replies come after.
This is also why i don't think i flinch when i am bound. i usually am blind folded, in a hood or have my eyes clamped so tightly that i have no idea what is coming, unless he wants me to (like cracking the single tail for example)...i also know that no matter what it is inescapable anyway.
As for reacting, i always react in some way, tears, yelling, moans....Sometimes i move too...but it is different....it isn't anticipatory movement it is reactionary movement.
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cherry
Walking through life, and fear with a smile on my face.
Walking directly through the eye of the hurricane...and through to the other side..without fear....realizing everything will be okay. :)
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Ha ha ha ha ha - yep. Chairman loves it. i was taught that flinching is pulling away so i hold still as much as possible (til i can't *grin*). But i most definitely react. 
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