CaringandReal
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth 1. willing to submit and give up ownership to their control, but at the same time they wouldn't accept every idea and wish that passed their Dom's/Dommes' kinky imagination. In all the time I've been... well, doing what I do, I never once imagined I'd be arguing the positive side of this. Sometimes I love how unpredicatble life is. ;) quote:
"why use such words like "submit and give up ownership to their control" to describe your relationship dynamic, when you participate in a relationship in which you retain the authority to deny your "owner", if that is what you so choose...and your "owner" wants their wishes to be considered and either permitted or denied, situationally? entering into a relationship where both parties have an equal say in what goes on, backed up by the law of the land~doesn't strike this slave as being D/s or M/s or Owner/owned...it sounds like the conventional way to structure a relationship...so why bother to call it D/s or M/s or Owner/owned" I don't recall the situation you're speaking of from the other thread but I get the general idea of what you are talking about, given how common it is. I think this thought and behavior, which some of us know is deception, allows some people (obviously not all) to try on ideas and practices that they otherwise could not approach or have access to. Think of it as a bunch of people in a halfway house...or a dollhouse. They aren't straight edgers, they aren't there yet, but they're trying, they're curious, they're approaching something. They're playing with it, trying it on for size. They can't do it all the way yet, they're too scared or concerned or something (whatever the emotional roadblocks are) but they want it. Would you find it sexy or hot, in their shoes to say, "Oh I'm having a vanilla relationship or a mildly kinky one where I maintain most of the veto power and control, and my master aquieses to me." Or even "I'm living a little fantasy, trying this on for size, not ready to commit to it yet, so of course it isn't real handing over of power and aquiesing to someone's will." Words have power because they evoke ideas, like a wizard might conjur a being or an object from another world. By calling something ownership or control, the person using those words, even if wrong, can feel a little bit of the ownership and control. Maybe enough to know that they want more of it. And then they can take the next step. Dishonesty, to me, is less important in these cases than it is in others, because the people are trying to grow, to change, to become something else, to become their dreams. It reminds me a little of the old piece of advice, "If you want to feel happy, force yourself to smile." It's a bootstrapping process: first you don't feel anything, then you go through the motions in a limited way and give yourself and the relationship the names, and pretty soon you're diving deeper into it, becoming the thing you once just imagined you were. So in summary, if it helps people become more kinky, explore deeper extremes of power, I am all for their calling themselves whatever makes them feel best, even if it's not exactly accurate from certain perspectives. ;)
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