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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

I think experience has value in knowing whether the person is here to stay or not.  Seems like in general there is a 2 year cutoff for rapture.  After that, the bittersweet taste drives the thrill seekers with rapture away and those hooked on exchanging service, power/authority and suffering are here to stay. 

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ORIGINAL: wanderingstray

I prefer odd numbers of years. 1,3,5,7,... is 0 odd or even?

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

I think experience has value in knowing whether the person is here to stay or not.  Seems like in general there is a 2 year cutoff for rapture.  After that, the bittersweet taste drives the thrill seekers with rapture away and those hooked on exchanging service, power/authority and suffering are here to stay. 

Other than that… I echo other replies that say experience doesn’t equate to skill. 

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I couldn't change her past experience however I could change how she mentally and emotionally processed the same experience with me.

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ORIGINAL: KatyLied
Nothing beats the famous "I was raised in the lifestyle" claim.

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ORIGINAL: Prinsexx

I only seem to see 'years ofexperience' written in Dom(me)s' profiles. I can see why this is a selling point.
 What one is selling is nebulous as it says NOTHING about what they have "experience" in or of!
1. years of experience baking cakes
2. years of experience flushing the toilet
3. years of experience reading about shibari
4. years of experience wondering what it might be like to have my feet massaged and kissed and licked
1. selling cakes at the local bakery
2. selling toilets at Lowe's
3. selling books in the second hand bookstore
4. selling OPI to salons 
 
 
 I can see why this might endow a feeling of safety.
Safety?
1. Does a baker use ingredients that are organic?
2. Does this salesman know the difference between Round bowls or Elongated bowls if the consumer is only 85# and had a disability?
3. Is Shibari information better from a second had store or from Barnes and Noble?  After all which book is safer?
4. Is OPI really the safest nail polish? 
 
 I also feeel that it might have it's negative aspects too.
1. OPI might give me nail fungus.
2. If B & N is a safer book store, Shibari books from a second hand store would really be unsafe.
3. An elongated bowl would make a disabled person fall in an swish away to sure death if only 85 pounds...  it happened to my slave sister who has way more expereince than me !!
4. Organic lard in frosting is much better than chemical lard...  such negativity is unhealthy!!
 
But myy question is: what would the term years of experience mean in a submissive's profile?
1. Never been a doormat in the 100 most expensive homes in Palm Springs.
2. Read Castlerealm for 6 years, all of Claudia Varrin's books and now am reading all of Greenery Press books...it will take me about 12 years, will I be submissive enough by then?
 
 
 For me my body is my instrument as a submissive.
I have been used as a puppy, a piggy, a pony, a school girl and a spash pad.  I have alot of experience in being hogtied and suspended with a fucking machine in and out of my ass and cunt cause I heard ALOT of information by Master Lord Magnificent Poohbah as he walked me as a puppy; taught me to squel as a piggy, taught me to prance like a quarter horse; took me shopping for the right school girl skirt; and taught me the difference between a doormat and spash pad.  
 
I therefore cannot truly say when my submissive nature started and really couldn't state my years of experience.
Lord Magnificent Poohbah explained my nature was slave cause I could do everything he told me to do and I did a good job.  He told me my years of experience was equal his years of training me.  I was under a consideration collar for 3 months before his training collar of 2 weeks, then he said I was ready for my collar of show at the dungeon.
I have been waiting for 8.9 years to be used in the dungeon..while by body has been preserved in pristine conditon.  Master says I have over 25 years experience. That counts all the books I read, the Internet I read and the collars he gave me to wear.
 
 
This would be similar to stating how many years I had been willing to have my body used.
I am 86 years.  I have years of expereince using my body...which way do you want to know about?
1. putting on different types of girdles?
2. using pantyhose or silk stockings
3. taking showers or baths and use of sponges or loufas on my soft silkie skin 
4. the kinds of diets I used on my body?
5.  Better yet...what about all the kinds of lotins I used on my body?
 

So; what meaning does it have for you as a submissive and how would you measure it?
I measure by what takes my breath away... if for 3 seconds...  I am excited.
If for 17 seconds ...my cunt is probably be wet.
If for 108 seconds ...I already orgasmed.
If for 242 minutes, it will be unsafe, nonconsensual and definately insane cause I will have received a cerebral vascular accident. 

How useful is it to know this about a submissive if you are a dom(me)?
Very valuable... If you dont know, I will be an abused victim.

Do you value innocence or experience in a submissive?

I love to look innocent. 
you might say I am more submissive, for I will do anything for you, even crawl on my knees or kneel when you demand "KNEEL BITCH" 

And this isn't merely (a personal question).
I love personal questions, they make me think you really care about me
 
BTW....... whats a profile anyway???

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ORIGINAL: Prinsexx

Dear RealSub
That's got to be the best post I've ever read on collarme

PS You look damn good for your age.

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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

Do you all laugh at my profile then?  I've put my years of active experience in the scene in my profile probably since I started. 

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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

Do you all laugh at my profile then?  I've put my years of active experience in the scene in my profile probably since I started. 

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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

Do you all laugh at my profile then? 

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ORIGINAL: CruelDesires

We were all new once. I remember you when you were new in the aol chats years ago.  Damn. Has it really been that long?

CD

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ORIGINAL: oblige

D/s requires no experience, just a willingness of one to submit and one to Dominate, and that to me it is a natural chemistry thing that happens when the right sub meets the right Dom and they then take those very human relationship risks to get to know one another.

I love this whole conversation, and thanks Prinsexx for posting it. ~oblige