AnnaOfAramis -> RE: Teenage Dommes? (9/4/2008 5:53:43 AM)
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I ask whether a 19 or even 22 year old has the maturity, life experience or emotional baggage to be venturing out in search of submissives. I firmly believe that someone seeking a Ds relationship, particularly in the dominant role, needs first to mature and establish self discipline and self control in her (or his) own life before venturing forth in search of that relationship and I question whether a 19 year old has reached that level, even if she thinks she has. What do you think? I think what many young Dommes or Doms can be at that level, is really a top. To really learn to control another, well as you say, that takes life experience. It's funny, I'm a ballet dancer, and most dancers are very young. As you watch their careers, the young dancers have the technical skills and are often dazzling in their abilities, but it is the older dancers that are given the dramatic lead roles... why? Because as they mature, they are able to put their life experience into their dancing... and it shows... they are able to communicate their inner self and experience, and the real pathos behind a role, where a younger dancer misses it and the dancing is somewhat empty. And we are talking about the difference here of about ten years. So what does this have to do with D/s? Well, I think it illustrates that no matter what we may wish to believe, life experience changes us and makes us more capable of understanding things on a deeper level. There probably are some young people who may be exceptions to the rule, but I would say that overall, no they simply haven't lived long enough to experience enough. I do think that dominance is pretty much an inborn thing though...a characteristic of the individual and not something learned. So, a young person may be dominant, but they have to learn how to control that dominance within them and apply it. Eventually as they learn this, they may become a Dom/me, and with more practice and a great deal of introspection, they may even master themselves... when they have done this and have life experience, they may be ready to be a Master or Mistress. Well wishes, anna
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