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Dominasola -> RE: what is your concept of d/s? (12/30/2009 9:11:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: osf
i'm not against adapting words to fit, but lets all use the same word the same
Unfortunately, this is a hard ideal to obtain. Everyone may know what the official (whoever may dictate that) definition of a word is, but different experiences will cause the word to mean something different to different people. The concept of happiness, for example, may mean a positive emotion derived from a feeling of contentment, but it can also simply be the absence of pain, fear, anger. Although understood to mean a positive emotion or state of mind, one person's happy will not be another person's happy.
As for the original question... Definitively, dominance and submission:
DOMINANCE: noun 1 power and influence over others.
SUBMISSION: (from verb, submit) 1 accept or yield to a superior force or stronger person. 2 subject to a particular process, treatment, or condition.
(from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2009)
The everyday person, though, is not very likely to admit that they are submitting to some dominant power when they succumb to advertisements, marketing schemes, political manipulation, etc.
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and i don't think you'll find any associated kink mentioned and that's the way i use them
Clearly, this is true, but it's also fairly certain that asking a D/s community about what D/s means is going to get a certain, structured answer. Why on earth would you ask the community what its concept of D/s is, then criticize it for thinking too narrowly about it?
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