EmeraldSlave2
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Thanks to Quivver, we've still got the original post...though apparently he wasn't serious when he said at the end that he "welcomed all feedback" ORIGINAL: MasterDirkNC One of the strengths of this lifestyle is independence. The independent development of discipline and service is also the greatest weakness of the lifestyle today. Dominants and submissives meet in chat rooms and websites and spar and fence, each applying personal definitions one to the other. The submissive cult is growing, yearning to be safe and to serve (and top from the bottom), and it is attempting to define the Dominant. Dominants see submissive power growing and yield publicly, adopting the submissive definitions, submissive speak, becoming little more than the whip hands for a growing herd of untrained, undisciplined, harpies. Paying to play in other words by conforming. One overall set of definitions, one generally accepted discipline, and one basic set of guidelines for the training of submissives, as well as Dominants, would help to define the lifestyle, and return control to the Dominants. Common sense indicates that those expected to rule, to train, and to identify the submissives, should control the lifestyle and the relationships that develop as a result of it. What do submissives want from Dominants? What definitions and terms should all Dominants know? Submissives? Should Dominants be trained as submissives, then as Dominants? Or be mentored by older more experienced Dominants? Many submissives feel that Dominants who were once submissive understand them better, others feel that those Dominants are more apt to Switch. How can Switches be viewed with more respect? Currently, while many do treat them with the respect that they deserve, many more treat them with the same sort of disdain that the vanilla world tends to apply to bi-sexuals. Specifically, bi-sexual men. Bi-sexuality in women is almost universally fantasized over, if not accepted, while bi-sexuality in men is viewed as weak mindedness by the majority of the gay community, and as gay by the straight community. Switches in the lifestyle are generally viewed likewise as weak minded by Dominants, and submissive by submissives. Are they in a transitional phase, or are they true Switches, able to Dominate or submit, depending on the partner, or the situation? Or simply their mood? I welcome any feedback, regardless of your level of experience, or your role.
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