amayos -> RE: Female As Whore (5/3/2008 8:32:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie What perplexed me was your comment about being easier to degrade. As someone who is both degraded and humiliated, and quite often, I'm not sure where you're coming from. Degradation can be tricky business, as I believe it has the potential to be more damaging. Or are you speaking of careless degradation? Humiliation is making someone feel incredibly ashamed and foolish, to the point they truly loose their dignity and self-respect. To be humiliated isn't a nice feeling, and it seems odd to juxtapose humiliation and degradation in such as way as to say one is "healthy" or "favorable" and the other isn't. Those who find so-called "humiliation" enjoyable tend to be rather resiliant people who are in reality pretty bold and comfortable in their own skin, thus making the "humiliation" really an exotic psychodynamic romp in which they are getting attention (albeit unorthadox). Take them out of their comfort zones, however, and see what happens. This is not to say some people don't like actual humiliation and have developed a complex psychological appreciation for it, but I find it rare, not to mention neither here nor there toward the goal of authentic submission. I believe slaves who are regularly humiliated are simply obeying their Keepers. The pleasure they derrive from it is the end result of amusement in the one they serve, as if to say, "Though this is painful and tremendously difficult, I enjoy whatever sacrifice I must make in body or mind to amuse you, to make you happy." In my opinion, this is not the same as "liking humiliation", however. As a Keeper, I have found humiliation to be balanced upon psychological context. It depends upon the disposition of the subjects and their reaction to certain situations. Each individual is different, and will react to or perceive things differently. Degradation, however, is perhaps more externally defined. I suppose it's easiest to say that while I degrade a subject, that subject may or may not be humiliated per say—he or she might even enjoy it. Regardless, anyone can clearly see the subject is being degraded, which is to say, treated with disrespect, lowered in station, or generally dehumanized. This idea is slippery because it's hard to really define where humiliation ends and degradation begins. The two are often inextricably linked, but not always, particularly among those who eroticize domination and submission.
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