AnimusRex -> RE: Just recently I have started to feel that I/We don’t fit in here. I almost feel as though we are che (12/27/2009 12:01:08 PM)
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In agreement with the other posters here. I'm not exactly sure why you feel you are not fitting in, unless I expand on your thoughts about not being in a contrived rigidly defined role, or making kink the center of your life. If thats the case, then Kim and i are in the same boat. Truth is, often when we go to clubs or even browse here, we do seem like odd ducks; We are only lightly into pain and fetish, so we are too vanilla for most, yet in being a "couple seeking third", the life we want to make is too extreme even for many hard core edge players. But it would be odd if it were any other way, wouldn't it? BDSM is actually just a catchall phrase, a grouping of wildly disparate people who have different interests, and see things differently. Some emphasize the physical, others the relationship, some want long term, some short term, and on and on. The only thing that we all have in common is that there is something having to do with power dynamics in our relationship. Someone wisely commented on these boards that "BDSM happens in that twilight space between fantasy and reality"; which is why it is so hard sometimes to separate the firm truth from the shadows of dreams- one of the biggest fantasies, promoted even by those within the community, is that there is an established order, a creed and constitution that lays out and defines us clearly. The Story of O and countless other books promised a shadowy underground network of Masters and slaves who all acted according to the same set of rules and beliefs and manners and mores, that we all held in communion a tight knit community of common understanding. Maybe you two don't fit in because there really isn't anything to fit into. All there really is is a loose affiliation of people who have some common threads and an interest in similar relationships. Ironically, the more we accept our different ways of seeing things, the more we have in common; and the more we try to enforce an orthodoxy the more we fissure and separate.
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