DemonKia -> RE: Would you starve a slave or deny them food for a period as punishment? (7/10/2010 11:04:33 PM)
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FR First, I made a quick detour over to F e t & plugged in 'starvation' into the fetish-list-searchy-thingy. & sure enough, up popped 'starvation' itself with 28 fans, as well as: * forced starvation 5 kinksters * self starvation 3 kinksters * starvation as a feminist speech act 1 kinkster. There's 5 fans of 'starving'. 'Hunger' yielded up one who subscribed to that fetish & also: * living in a constant state of hunger 1 kinkster. 'Food restriction' has 12 fans. 'Forced diet' has 47 fans. 'Anorexia' has 34 fans. 'Withholding donuts' has 3 fans. There's a group called 'Pro-ana, Pro-CRON, Alternative Eating' with 102 members. So. I know, not an authoritative research tool, but it does say something about interests. &, much as I dislike it, F e t is _the_ place where all the real-world kinksters I know congregate. & it is the one working so hard to be so interactive & responsive to the kink community, as much as I despise typing those words. Anyways . . . . . . My primary assumption when reading on these or other kink community message boards is that we're talking informed consenting behaviors of desiring adults, unless otherwise stated. Play-acting 'force' & so on & so forth (mostly). So, from that perspective . . .... Also, note carefully that prior to about 4 years ago I was a 'fasting scoffer', skeptical of the very notion of going without solid food being a beneficial thing. Something that just whackjobs were into, that kinda thing. I am, of course, a whackjob, but just not one of those kind of whackjobs, ya know? Then, ya know, I tried it for myself. I engage in occasional 24-ish hour fasts, for health & healing reasons (mostly cuz it makes me feel better to do it). I have also used occasional short-term fasting to, in essence, shrink my stomach pouch (without bariatric surgery) & to 'deal' with my over-eating & sugar-binging issues. This has transpired over the last few years. When fasting I refrain from eating solid food, mostly. Occasionally I'll eat small amounts of fresh fruit while fasting, but mostly I just drink a lot of water & fresh ginger tea & a little bit of dilute citrus juice of some kind. On days that I fast I also tend to spend a lot of time meditating, resting, &/or sleeping. I find fasting has been powerfully useful in confronting & working thru my many emotional outpourings triggered by hunger, for example. For me, hunger triggers panic, anxiety, & a host of other unpleasant emotions, &/or compounds existing emotional states. & since one of my 'healthy eating goals' is to 'eat only when actually physically hungry' (rather than the myriad other reasons I eat for), being able to co-exist with hunger was a situation with which I had to get comfortable. Okay, that's strictly just about me & some of my experience & thinking behind 'temporary bouts of starvation'. ~puts D/M/O hat on~ Okay, now from the perspective of what I do with those who've put themselves into some kind of submissive position to my authority. I tend to want & need everyone around me to be working on compatible being-healthy kinds of trends. I eat a lot of veggies & fruit, whole grains, try to minimize animal products, all that kinda thing, & anyone who's gonna eat meals with me or otherwise spend a lot of close time with me is gonna come into that sphere of influence. I probably have bigger pet peeves around what beverages people routinely consume way more than food. I drink mostly water & I tend to have little patience with the idea of needing all of ones fluids to be flavored. I deliberately raised the offspring to be by-default-water-drinkers rather than the soda-kool-aid-sweet-tea-whatever-anything-but-H2O swilling example of the masses. Mostly cuz I consider overpriced flavored fluids to be one of the great marketing scams of capitalist-Murrica, but that's a whole other issue . . . . What I would 'make' a desiring submissive do depends entirely on what that s-type wants, frankly. But then we're back to that thing where I'm into consenting & desired behaviors.
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