IvyMorgan
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Joined: 7/5/2007 From: Midlands, UK Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Icarys I guess i was looking for something deeper but that will suffice. Thanks again. I'm not sure if there *is* anything deeper. At the end of the day, I'm not keen on labels. If I have to label myself, as I said, I go with "bi, poly, switch" and then hope for a chance to elaborate. I respond to individuals, irrespective of gender, hence the bi. I am perfectly capable of loving more than one person at the same time, in different ways, hence the poly. I like to top and bottom, as well as submit, hence the switch. I use the submissive label because that's the closest I can come to on CM to express what it is I'm trying to, and then use the text of the profile to be more explicit. It is a toss up between submissive and slave. "Slave" takes me to a place where I don't want to be. A place where I have no control over what happens, where I am helpless, abused, and just surviving. It's a place I'm doing my damnest to heal from. And a place I don't want to go back to. Looking more clinically, the idea of turning myself completely over to someone else, having no control, and simply responding without question or thought, where my whole self is ploughed with a singluar purpose to please another... that to me is slavery, and that is something that I see an appeal in. So, I'd like that, but you'd just better not call me a slave whilst I'm doing that. It's very much a case of semantics. I appreciate this. And it sounds petty, and it possible is, but, to me, it's important. So, I really am "submissive" because there's no better CM label. No amount of trying to be deep and meaningful is working.
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