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ORIGINAL: sodsta

So... The Other World Kingdom... what do you guys think?

My female friend is of the opinion that, despite being labelled a place of Female Supremacy, The Other World Kingdom seems much more catered to submissive men than it is to Dominant women. I thought that was an interesting way of looking at it. I was curious to know whether you agreed or not?

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ORIGINAL: AAkasha

I suppose a real OWK would be run by independently wealthy women with harems of hot men with oiled bodies running around giving foot massages, "lap dances" and providing entertainment.

Akasha

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I have yet to see a Female Supremacy group or site which was not the femme domme equivalent of the Gor claptrap.  It may appeal to some women and many men as a sexual fantasy, but none of these women are bending their efforts toward achieving political power or social change in any meaningful way.  They don't harness manpower to make themselves captains of industry, political leaders or clerics of a new religion.  The only supremacy you ever see is very limited, safely sexual, and usually being practiced on men who are nice and anonymous.  These guys will go straight back to being tyrannical little patriarchs as soon as they put their street clothes back on.

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Anyway.  Sites and clubs like this exist for one reason:  to part submissive men from their money.  In this respect it's no different from many other cultural spaces which open when the unmet needs of women (which are mostly economic) meet the unmet needs of men (which are mostly emotional and sexual).  Pro domination, prostitution and pornography all allow men to enjoy submissive fantasies without actually having to disrupt the status quo of our society.  A few women scrape a few dollars and a few cheap thrills off the barrelhead, but nothing really changes for women generally--they remain second-class citizens oppressed by massive structural violence.

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This site is no different.  A picture is worth a thousand words!  These photos are all about male submissive needs and grandiose fantasies.  They posit a world of Female Supremacy full of UBER POWER WIMMENS who... somehow have nothing better to do than hang around in fetish gear all day playing with someone's dick.

Wow... what power they have!  Maybe if they all put some frickin' clothes on and spent a few years in training, the Other World Kingdom could muster an army big enough to threaten the munchkins in neighboring Oz.

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
Yes, its a commercial operation - such a place could not operate absent regular income or a very wealthy benefactor. But to deride it for making charges or being commercial is plain silly in a world where everything is organised by commercial methods out of necessity.

Take it for what it is - or leave it for what it is, but this sniping at OWK (and pro-dommes too, as we get here from time to time) is just silly as well as ill informed.

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ORIGINAL: ShaktiSama



There is a very real, very serious need for social and political change on this planet.  There is a very real, very serious need for women to seize and exercise more power and more responsibility in every aspect of human existence--in politics, in the workplace, in the arts and sciences, in public life and in the family. 

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ORIGINAL: littlesarbonn
But it's just not happening.

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Places like OWK might not be the answer....

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My argument is that places like OWK are not only NOT the answer, they are directly in opposition to the answer.  This isn't even relevant and germane female sexual dominance, in my opinion; it's just yet another way to force women to serve the emotional and sexual needs of men.

I think if you want to see relevant female sexual dominance, you would be far better spending your money to familiarize yourself with the content of Akasha's website, or the blogs and erotica written by many of the female posters here.  These are real women who have genuine, authentic, personal sexual and emotional needs to dominate.  Their struggles, their relationships, their feelings are the heart of female domination.

THEY are the answer.  Not this male-scripted, male-controlled bs.

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

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My argument is that places like OWK are not only NOT the answer, they are directly in opposition to the answer.  This isn't even relevant and germane female sexual dominance, in my opinion; it's just yet another way to force women to serve the emotional and sexual needs of men.

I think if you want to see relevant female sexual dominance, you would be far better spending your money to familiarize yourself with the content of Akasha's website, or the blogs and erotica written by many of the female posters here.  These are real women who have genuine, authentic, personal sexual and emotional needs to dominate.  Their struggles, their relationships, their feelings are the heart of female domination.

THEY are the answer.  Not this male-scripted, male-controlled bs.

I am a little confused by your posts here.  What answer are you looking for?  I understand you don't like the OWK.  I can't say that I find it all that appealing myself.  However, I think most rational men that enjoy it's materials understand that it is primarily geared toward producing pornography.  Only a fool would believe that there is some kink kingdom where women parade around all day wearing fetish attire, riding men, and having their boots licked.  That being said, of course it is geared towards men.  Men are the primary customers buying their material.  That's just simple capitalism; you cater to the wishes of your customer or someone else will.  I doubt very seriously if any of the women in those videos and photographs were forced to perform. 

I don't exactly see how they or any other pornographic materials are in opposition to feminism.  That's the tired old argument from the likes of Andrea Dworkin, and frankly it's ridiculous.  Women and men should be allowed to live their lives as they choose.  I think what bothers a lot of feminists of the Dworkin type ilk; is the fact that some women are not choosing to go along with their way of thinking.  You don't like something; so you make a decision for all women and men, that this is not in their best interests.  We are all free to enjoy what we enjoy, and I find it silly to blame a serious social problem like women's inequality on something trivial like pornography.