badprofessor
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Joined: 12/11/2007 From: Toronto, Canada Status: offline
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Like many others have said, on the surface, it is unfair for your partner to take out his ED on you, but ultimately it is your choice to stay or go for this and all the other reasons stated in this thread. If your dom knew beforehand that he had ED then he should have informed you before the emotional investment got too high--there's one reason not to wait until you are married. For the sake of comparison, people routinely mistake me as being in my early to mid thirties, and even younger. I'm 45 (no picture, but take my word for it), and on occassion, I'm approached by women significantly younger than me. I know I look young and I am obligated to make sure they know I'm way older than they think. Perhaps a closer analogy is this: I had a heart attack a little over a year ago. For the most part I am fine and I routinely go on athletic bike rides of 80-100K. I'm not about to broadcast this on a first meeting, but if it looks like things are progressing, I am obligated to bring this into the conversation. Finally, there is a chance the guy didn't even know he had ED until their first sexual encounter. I may have ED myself, but I don't really know. It's been several years since I have been with anyone and for the most part things seem to work when I masturbate, but definitely not as well as in the past. I'm at the age where things start to tail off, plus I have some significant markers that put me at greater risk for ED. Should I warn potential partners that I have ED? If I don't, am I being deceitful? Should I take a chance, embarass myself, and hope I never see the other person again? And a million other rhetorical questions... Things aren't always so simple, and like so many of the discussions in these forums, they apply far beyond the realm of BDSM.
< Message edited by badprofessor -- 2/2/2008 11:48:19 AM >
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