Lawrence111 -> RE: D/s Wannabe and what to look for (8/8/2004 7:10:39 PM)
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Ask your prospect if he's ever made any mistakes during a scene. If he says no, run for your life! If he says, very rarely, at least be suspicious. Everyone makes mistakes, even if they are experienced players. Sometimes submissives have Limits they don't even know about, and even the most careful and skilled Dom the world will trip over these occasionally. Remember, according to our good friends of the Christian faith, the last perfect guy to walk this planet got nailed to a tree for his trouble. So expect competence, but not miracles. Sorry to post 2 times so soon but this has me bugged. This is not at all true. There are exceptions to this rule (over all I like those rules). This one however personally affects me. There are usually two types of people who havn't made mistakes. The first one is someone who has been trained by a more experienced Dom/Master. If they were trained and shown exactly what to do and how to do it, they may have not ever made a mistake. Some people do have a natural ability to be a Dom/Master, just as some people can pick up a guitar and play it first time without ever having done so before. The other type of person is a person who grew up in a society or subculture, or was otherwise raised from birth to be a Dom. These people have learned from a very young age exactly how it is and is not done. They lived it, breathed it, feared it, and many more things I can't describe in words. More and more as more and more lifestylers appear you meet young adults who were introduced at ages usually as young as 10 to 13. These people have a firm grasp and understanding of the lifestyle. Most of them have witnessed it first and second hand from parents or other close relatives/friends. These people are not to be feared (except the subcultural ones) or counted out. As I said in my previous posting, before accusing find out why they don't fit into the "rules". quote:
wizcitrix I don't concur. First of all, mistakes can and do happen. You do something long enough, you are bound to make an error here and there. A person with good charactor would admit, "Yes, I have made mistakes, but I have learned from them." Secondly is the issue of the statement, "I'm 25 and I have 10 years of experience." I have not met anyone who was formally introduced to it at 10 or 15 years of age. No one (family or not) would have started training someone at that age. To say that someone (family or not) got them started with this at that age ... deserves more questioning because one is still a child at at that age. Who would expose a child to 'the lifestyle' ... especially if it involves sex ? When I was that age, and while sex had been explained to me, I certainly didn't want to know what my parents were doing *sexually*. (It was a big enough shock to accept "They had to do *that* so that I could be born? Euuuu ..." LOL) Rather, I can accept that what someone *means* to say is, "While at the time I didn't know what they represented, I became aware of these feelings at age 10." That's understandable. But to be formally exposed to it at age 10? Highly unlikely. My children are 16 and 17 repectively. I believe that they know nothing of my interests, and they won't until they get older and until I feel that they are adult enough to understand it. So, while I would accept that someone's *interest* in things BDSM may have started at a young age (hell, I was 5 or 6 when I became aware), I would really question someone who claims to have begun formalized training at that age. Sincerely, Lawrence Ithaca, NY
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