TallDarkAndWitty
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Joined: 6/12/2004 From: Rochester, NY Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Leonidas That's a very interesting perspective Taggard. I would say that your example, though, assumes a tremendous amount of self-esteem and altruism on the part of the slave. I am not sure it has anything to do with altruism. I think, perhaps they just simply need/enjoy it as much as I do. So if you now ask why the ones who need to be (enjoy being) called "a worthless pile of shit", have that kink, I am afraid I will have to defer to the ones who do, as I am about as able to answer that question as I am able to answer why anyone would want to submit in any fashion at all. I really don't get submission on any kind of personal level. For me, it is merely the physical energy I need to come from my partner to thrive. I know, logically, that they do need/enjoy it, so I don't really try to understand it on any deeper level. I have enough issues of my own to work out (for now, at least). quote:
Would you destroy the slave to get what you need? To paraphrase my old buddy, Dostoyevsky, if you could make a perfect world by torturing one innocent creature to death, would you? Maybe now my need for a lengthy negotiation process filled with many safeguards and a very slow process of decreasing limits makes more sense? As we have discussed before, the no-limits slave style you enjoy does not really allow for the kind of rough play that many S&M practitioners enjoy. My style, while not physically painful, can be rather damaging psychologically and requires many of the same safeguards. I need to know that the slave is in a position to not be destroyed by my desires and tests. I need to know that if I begin to really hurt her, she will have tools to express her pain. I need to know, through the lengthy negotiation process, that I will not destroy her with what I need. It is all about the pots and the lids...and matching them up. One more thing I would like to say, and it is along the lines of your reaction to the "your kink is not my kink" line of thought. I don't mean this as any kind of insult, but you seem to be a rather mainstream kind of kinkster. From what I understand of you (and that, admittedly isn't very much) you are into the kind of M/s relationship that would pass as vanilla in many countries around the world, with a bit of the approved S&M activities (floggings, bondage, etc.) sprinkled in. Women sub, men dom...natural order kind of thing. All very common things. I think, perhaps, you have trouble with the "your kink is not my kink" because you don't have many kinks that aren't common. I can be a rather extreme psychological player, and I have a bizzare paperwork fetish. When I realized these things about myself, and that these weren't very common, or particularly accepted aspects of BDSM, it really opened my eyes to what "your kink is not my kink" is all about. When I defend a practice I don't share or even understand, I am really defending my own right to practice things others don't share or even understand. So when you say: quote:
OK, I figured I'd hear the "your kink isn't my kink" thing. Just a simple question though. you raise a very defensive reaction in those of us who fear those simple questions will turn into simple demands that we stop practicing what the inquisitor doesn't understand. (I am not saying that you mean to do this, it is just the natural reaction of those who have been called sick and perverted by others who did not understand.) Thought provoking as always... Yours, Taggard
< Message edited by TallDarkAndWitty -- 7/28/2004 1:36:05 PM >
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A most rewarding compliment is an insult from the ill-informed. My slave: Kat (RainaVerene on the other side) and her website: RainaVerene.com
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