LadyPact
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ORIGINAL: ShaktiSama As many dommes can tell you, the submissive side of a person often comes out more intensely when they are facing a lot of emotional stress related to responsibility. Submitting in private is one of the ways that people cope with the burden of responsibility and leadership; when they're at work or even in the vanilla family context, a lot of male subs face a great burden--one of the reasons they feel the need to submit to a woman in the bedroom is because they need to lay those burdens aside and let someone else do the driving, be the center of topping attention, and just STOP THINKING ABOUT the things that weigh on them for a while. We've all heard of those submissive CEO's and captains of industry, and even outside that super-elite context I think most dommes have met subs who have very responsible, very authoritative and high-pressure jobs where they have to exercise a lot of power--lawyers, business owners, doctors, cops, soldiers--whose submissive side expresses itself much much more strongly when the pressure is turned up to BE LARGE AND IN CHARGE at work. My experiences align with this being accurate. I've had personal arrangements with people in four out of five of the careers listed in the last sentence. I have also witnessed that the pull of submission can be greater for some in particular professions due to seasonal upswings that put greater stress on their professional life. Periods of time such as crazed holiday shoppers for business owners, a higher crime rate/number of dockets in November and December, and times of higher stress depending on duty station/deployment all fit here. When the job stress goes up, so does the craving for submission (There's actually a pretty good thread on stress relief in regards to S/m play going on the general board right now.) quote:
I can't help wondering if the Switch woman in this case is such a person. It sounds as if the pressure has been ramping up, ramping up, ramping up for quite a while now, as the economy and credit system have collapsed, the family has been living beyond its means, etc etc.. At the same time, her submissive side in the bedroom is pretty much all she wants to express now--having to be solely responsible for the couple's sex life is more than she can stand, she only seeks relief from that kind of stress these days. I think relief is a very possible explanation. If a person is in charge all of the time and doesn't want to be, I would think the pull of wanting someone else to take the reigns would be even more prominent. I think it would be a great question to post on the Ask A Switch section. I know I'd be very interested to hear the answers. quote:
I can't help but speculate that in the case of a person who genuinely has both elements to their BDSM personality, that it may be that she feels more "domme" when life is better and easier, and her other burdens are lighter. For a lot of folks, submissive/bottom sexuality has an element of escapism to it--maybe if she didn't have so much she needed to escape from...? <cut> It does make a person wonder, doesn't it?
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