DemonKia -> RE: Extreme BDSM & Ethics (10/7/2009 1:46:07 PM)
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Awww, lovingpet, that was lyrical. Thanks . .. . . & it pried loose this: My sado & my maso selves are so well integrated that I tend to forget / overlook that there can be a lot of baggage around engaging in sadomasochistic activities . . . . . Okay. The reason that I'm a 'reasonably well-integrated sadomasochist' is because my sadist self lives with the maso part that needs / wants / desires the pain to such a sometimes all-consuming degree, there's a visceral understanding of the balance the two make . . .. . Those who only lean one way or the other can have a lot more struggle around feeling 'bad' (for whatever reason) about their desires -- so big kudos to all the well-adjusted sadists & masochists (&, yeah, all you other sadomasochists, too) around here! & I consider myself an 'ethical sadist', safely sublimating my less-than-social tendencies into relatively safe activities with absolutely consenting (I prefer they beg for a while, actually) masochists . . . . . . I have all kinds of limits, & I prefer to move gradually in expanding the diversity, scope, & intensity of pain play, as a top. Ideally, the pain-bottom is having to cope with their own impatience in the process, wanting more at the end of each session. My inner sadist likes that. After all, the meanest thing a sadist can say to a maso's request for pain is 'no' . . .. . . . But. Big big but. 'Sadist' is a 'bad word'. Or, it must have 'ironic inflection'. Or you must not really mean those things, it's just posturing. & being a 'fun, safe, BDSM sadist' certainly does not include that! lol & same for 'masochist' . . .. . . & what makes it the funnier / weirder / surreal-er for me is to step back & look at how much sadomasochistic stuff is buried in 'vanilla' life. Um, athletics pretty much wouldn't exist without a human capacity to get pleasure out of pain . . . . . & surgeons. Surgeons. They were a huge model for me of what safely sublimated sadism looks like in a fancy-schmancy emulatable version. (As in, all those urgings that one should grow up to be a doc, not home surgery . . . . lol) The causing of grievous bodily wounds in the service of healing sickness & injury. Even taking the patient to the brink of death to effect cure, or even significant symptomatic relief . . .. . It's not really 'polite' to discuss this like so, but the dynamic is discernible under the surface . . .. I could go on, but . . . . There are virtually no absolute-goods, nor absolute-bads, in this madhouse of a universe, except in the minds of the trollishly inclined, me thinks . ... . . .
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