LadyPact
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First of all, you get up entirely too early in the morning to post such well thought out comments. quote:
ORIGINAL: undergroundsea So there is truth to the statement that if a domme serves out of a sense of obligation, it will be draining and may further lessen the motivation for dominance. However, if it begins and ends with the domme, the route goes through the submissive in the middle. If a submissive is not finding enough D/s reward in a relationship, he will feel discontent to that effect. If this feeling continues over time, it will affect his interest in continuing to seek D/s there. It is not a question of equality for sake of justice as much a question of practicality and reality. There's truth to the statement that *anyone* doing these things involved in D/s out of purely obligation is going to feel drained. In the example you gave, you didn't feel submission to the person you were going to give the massage. You felt obligation, which is exactly why you didn't want to do it. The energy wasn't there for you. That changed the way you felt about what is basically the same act. quote:
Perhaps what we are discussing here are mirror scenarios: a domme who is expected to be dominant without help towards inspiration for dominance, and a sub who is expected to be submissive without help towards inspiration for submission. I think each person has to contribute to the dynamic. I'd very much agree with this. Dominance isn't a hat I put on and take off. It's who I am all of the time. Still, there are people that I don't feel Dominant towards. Just like you, as a submissive, don't feel submissive to everyone. There has to be something there that sparks it. Just like fire, if it has no fuel, it's not going to burn. If you haven't fed it anything to keep it going, you're left with two choices. Either rekindle it, or let it die out. quote:
I think it is also a question of compatibility. Ideally, the appetites for D/s between the two will be similar enough. Also, the statement that the domme is setting up rituals to keep the sub happy suggests that they do not carry meaning for her. While there might be some expressions that are more for the sake of one than the other, I think overall these expressions have to be meaningful to each person. For instance, if a domme feels dominant headspace when she hears her sub verbalize his submission to her (I belong to you), and this verbal affirmation is also meaningful to the sub, there we have an expression that is meaningful to both. If this expression is not meaningful to one but is to the other, perhaps it can still be done with some other expression that is meaningful to the other, with other expressions yet that are meaningful to each. Cheers, Sea I'm of two minds on this last part. The first of which is, if we are discussing keeping a D/s dynamic alive, that compatibility should already be established. The two participants should already be aware of what their wants and needs are in D/s. If it's not there in the beginning, it's not going to be there later down the road. My other thought on this is, this is exactly where some people miss the mark. We get so distracted by matching up the kinks and the vanilla interests that we completely forget about the actual dynamic. Somehow, we just expect it to exist without feeding it. Supposedly, it's going to live all on it's own. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. That means each participant has to contribute. They have to make the investment. Let's put this another way. We all understand that if one person has a fetish that they live for, and the other person couldn't care less about it, we see the two as not necessarily compatible. Yet, not everyone transfers that over to D/s. How we match according to ritual and protocol, or the lack thereof, is rather important. No sub would do well in My house if simple displays of submission meant nothing. There would be no connection, no bond on a D/s level. I would certainly pick up on that, and My drive would be lost. This would start the spiral that we are really talking about here. I would be less Dominant towards him and he less submissive to Me. It's all connected.
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