LadyPact -> RE: Assignments for subs (9/10/2009 5:05:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha This is a really interesting perspective to me. I have trouble getting my head around it. I think I can understand the lust or compulsion to "be a better dominant." For a moment, I feel like I kind of understand the difference, but then it gets hard for me to grasp. Ultimately, I do wonder, seriously, if I am just better labeled a top; or, more specifically, a bondage top. I enjoy "dominance," and power exchange, and I (by way of my personality and ambitions) am a leader in romantic relationships. However, my desire for (physical) domination, my desire to inspire/create "surrender, submission, authentic vulnerability" (as I call it) preferably by use of tools (bondage gear, pain toys, or ego deflation) is a compulsion. It's a "blood lust" type feeling I get that is a physical ache and need, more distracting and alarming, at times, than the desire for sex. Granted, I never act on it immorally - not even close. I use the word compulsion carefully, because it's not a lust that makes me make POOR choices, like a drug or alcohol or other "addiction" might - however, it's physically and emotionally strong enough that I cannot just label it "yeah I think doing S&m is fun and fulfilling." It's like a bloodlust. I need it, I get hungry for it, and I want it more than sex, at times. These are clearly "Topping" urges. When I have them, however, they are consuming. It's a wonderful, fantastic, alive feeling I wouldn't trade for the world. At the end of the day, really, I have no strong urges to become a better dominant; I have urges to become a better partner, best friend and lover to my mate and similar things to friends, as appropriate - those things make me feel happy and whole. But it's nothing like the physical lust I have for S&m, and often, it's barely even connected. I guess if I was to map my urges on a messy graph chart, there'd be a crossover area between my happiness/pleasure of being a dominant (which I liken to feeling "true" and "authentic" and being able to be who I want to be rather than pretend to be a submissive, doting girlfriend for example), and my lust for submission, surrender and vulneraiblity. My lusts are really pretty physical, very visual, and very sensual. Bondage and male helplessness are core to it. I seriously should consider just relabeling myself a Top.... Akasha It's funny that you used the term bloodluist. I've used that a time or two Myself. When I do or hear others use it, I know exactly in My mind what it conjures up. People who know Me well can tell when My brain has kicked into that kind of gear. My husband will see a certain look in My eyes and a grin that crossed My face and know that I'm in that particular zone. What you describe in the second paragraph, I can definitely relate to. I have little issue with periods of celibacy. I do have issues with periods of no S/m activity. At the very minimum, I have to be reading, learning, practicing, or studying, if not outright topping. If I don't take My sadist out for a stretch every once in a while, at least mentally, if not physically, I'm not as content of a person. That ache you describe can be a very real part of My world if I'm not doing something. That ache is a part of My drive. It still exists whether there is a submissive in My house or not. If I were not partnered or had only an LDR, I'd have to channel that energy in some way. As in the title of the OP, we give assignments to our submissive, hopefully with a purpose, rather than just random tasks to keep them busy or to exercise control. We want those tasks to have benefits. Flip the coin to the other side. Those same puirposes and benefits are still there. We're asking our submissives to grow and explore their submission, but if we're not doing the same thing on the other side of the kneel, we will become stagnent. On a personal note, Aakasha, I've noticed you say that particular line about labeling yourself a bondage top a few times now. In certain scenarios with certain people, I do the same thing. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I find it more accurate for casual play. The way I see it, if it's working for you, go for it.
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