Sunshine119
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Hoping to pick a few brains...Im reading an analysis of social systems (yeah I know only dorks read textbooks for pleasure ;) )
anyways I ran across this passage that I keep mulling over in the deviation from cultural patterns chapter..that Im hoping someone can give me some Psychologist examples as it relates to the D/s world.
"mechanisms of defense as these are primarily psychological in nature, though they are also relevant sociologically for several reasons. In the first place an understanding of the phenomenon of repression give a clue to how the subsequent deviance will be expressed. If a person represses and institutionilized standard so he can violate it, he will be a compulsive innovator or ritualist, depending on whether goals or means are repressed. If both goals and means are repressed, deviance will be expressed as compulsive retreatism. The compulsive nature of the deviance emerges as a consequence of reaction formation. Similarily if he represses a disapproved means or goal so that he can conform, he will express his deviance compulsively in overcomfortity. I other words the direction of deviance is related to which side of an ambivalence a person in conflict represses."
(the last part I think I can see as like a pedophile priest who publicly denounces child porn maybe even crusades against it but has his own collection)...but the first part...how does that get expressed or repressed..when D/s is the institutionalized standard for instance???
thanks any insights are always welcome.
DW
Figured I'd finally get around to answering the OP's question here. There are several assumptions being made that need to be corrected. First, D/s is most probably NOT psychologically deviant thought/behavior. D/s most probably is the norm for most human beings. It certainly is the way the entire animal kingdom exists. There are those animals that are the leaders of the pack and those who are the followers. Examples of suppression of the natural order comes when society tells us what we should look like, how we should act. There are both men and women who have dominant natures.
Men are being feminized in our society at the moment. They are being turned into metrosexuals. For some, this is a liberation of their submissive natures and gives them permission to act as their nature calls without incurring stigma from society. For some, this causes anxiety as their nature calls them to dominate others.
The opposite would hold true for women. Those who are strong and dominant are applauded, while those who are more submissive by nature are told they are now liberated and to get with the program. The problem is, that with hundreds of thousands of years of living in a society where D/s has been the norm, 50 years of "liberation" isn't going to change nature.
The majority of women are and will continue to be more submissive than a man who has not tried to suppress his nature. There are exceptions to this and that is why we have Dommes and male subs. But, they are not in the majority. In addition, they are not supressing their natures. They are allowing themselves to live in the manner that their brains are wired.
D/s is not repression or reaction to deviance but rather the opposite. Now, some aspects of BDSM may be.....lol.....but isn't it fun?
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