LadyNTrainer -> RE: Do you want to be (a little) afraid of your partner? (4/6/2010 11:13:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: OrpheusAgonistes That's a very hot dynamic. It's absolutely possible to psych yourself in a sense of real fear and trembling with the right threats and props, particularly if your partner is completely committed to selling the scene. Even smart and intuitive people can get (allow themselves to get) overwhelmed and disoriented enough by a predicament that, even though nobody ever lost control, it still feels like a "What did I get myself into?" moment. On my end, I wouldn't describe it as selling so much as dropping the civilized mask and letting the beast that lives behind my eyes peek out just a little. I'm a rational, well functioning member of society, and I'm not actually going to maim or kill my partners. Not only do you not get to play with them again if you do that, the government gets quite annoyed if you slaughter and butcher its taxpayers, and there are unpleasant consequences. But there's also enough wiring broken or missing in my brain that I could in fact torture or kill without batting an eyelash if for some reason it was rational and logical for me to do so. I can't see any circumstances under which it would be, other than extreme self defense. The notion of butchering a person like a deer doesn't disturb me in the least, and at times it's quite attractive. What stops me is not emotional inhibition - I don't seem to have any in that respect - but reason. Also a protective instinct towards someone I identify as mate rather than prey, though during this kind of play the boundaries can blur some. I have one submissive who is fearless enough to be mate to the dominant primordial beast behind my eyes, and as a result I don't view him as prey at all any more. The other is utterly fascinated by the predator he sees in me, and he enjoys being prey. I've warned him that there's some buttons he shouldn't push too hard if he doesn't want to be missing some blood by the end of our session, and that's not a metaphor. He trusts me absolutely, and for the most part I trust myself, but there are times I put the knife down and walk away. Not because I lose interest, but because the lines have blurred too far and I am much too interested. And that's why people think I'm scary. His enjoyment of real fear is sexy enough that I'm willing to keep skirting the line and letting the beast out to play in calculated measure.
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