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ORIGINAL: UniqueRaven

Note**** by "Spiritual" in this post i don't necessarily mean including the worship of any particular G-d. It could also be just how someone connects with the universe, or karma, or just the energies of other humans. i'm referring to that sense of something "other", or even "higher", outside of yourself, and whether that plays a role or not.


i had someone read my profile and my journal recently and say that he thought we could be a good match, but that i was a much more "spiritual" submissive than he was used to.

This got me thinking - i am spiritual, yes, it comes a lot from my yoga training, but i tend to see the spirtual as enhancing the functionality of my submission, in other words it enables me to just be - and to just be present for my D-types desires and needs from me.

And then i realized that there really is a range on this - there recently was a thread in the sub/slave forum on spirituality enhancing submission, and i saw that quite a few s-types related their submission strongly with their spirituality, including myself.

But then i see D-types who post who are purely "do it, don't think about it, etc. etc." and don't really care about spirituality. Conversely, i also see D-types who want to take their s-types on a spiritual journey of sorts, who want to lead him/her in that way.

So overall, where do you fit on the range? Do you see D/s as more "functional" or "spiritual"? Can you relate or be engaged with a partner who is on the other end of the range as you? And i'm particularly interested if it is the general trend that s-types are more spiritual, and the D-types are more functional, or if i'm just putting too much of my own interpretation on things.

Looking forward to the responses!