ShaktiSama
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ORIGINAL: Jeptha My problem is more with the broad brush that you use in your portrayal of anyone who isn't engaged in strict monogamy (they seem to me to be on the red end of your continuum, that I've highlighted above), and what it is that they actually do. Actually, I think part of the problem is the assumption that I am automatically talking about "anyone who isn't engaged in strict monogamy" when I discuss the fantasies and rhetoric of "hiring out" or gang-banging the "no limits sub". Again, the problem is definitions. I refuse to define anyone who observes safe sex procedures as being a "no limits" submissive. If observing safe sex procedures makes you a "No Limits" sub, then just about every submissive I've ever known was a "no limits" sub--there is absolutely nothing special or different about people who claim the label. To me, carefully observing safety procedures is not "no limits" behavior by any reasonable definition of the term. It's just ordinary kinky or slightly risque behavior that is observing the exact same safety/sanity limits that everyone else in a sane, negotiated and bounded relationship is observing. I have experienced poly relationships myself and have played with more than one person at a time on many occasions. I would not call those experiences or any of the players present "no limits" precisely because the boundaries were mutually agreed upon, based on the safety and best interests of all concerned. No one was being ordered or forced to violate their best interest and risk their lives based on someone else's whim. What continually obscures these issues from my point of view is the simple issue of sanity. The rhetoric of no-limits submission and no-limits dominance inevitably go to the land of completely abusive, destructive extremes in order to "prove the point". "My dominant can break my arm if he wants", "If I told my submissive to jump off a cliff, she'd have to do it because she's my slave". The underlying dynamic that is emphasized is never the depth of mutual trust--it's always just an appeal to brutal authority and mindless obedience, neither of which appeals to me and neither of which is morally or socially defensible in my opinion.
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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