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- stop using the Internet (already mentioned)
- not being allowed to eat your favorite food or drink (think of chocolate, strawberries, french fries, milk shake, beer, wine, steak, cherries, watermelon, popcorn,
orange juice, whatever is your favorite food or drink)
- not being allowed to listen to your favorite type of music or your favorite band or composer
- no more television
- no more movies (or only those that Master orders you to watch)
- reading only the books that Master approves of
- pursuing only the hobbies that Master approves of (erase your favorite hobbies from your memory, they are gone)
etc.
Actually, SocratesNot, I did all of the things you mention above, and it had nothing to do with an M/s relationship. All of those things were part of the 9 years I spent in training for the esoteric path on which I teach. Everything had to be approved by my teachers, they read my mail before I got to see it (and if they thought it would be too much of a distraction, it was put aside... only true emergencies where my presence/involvement would actually make a difference were exempted, and you'd be surprised how few "true emergencies" there really are)... No TV, movies, hobbies, music -- even what I ate and the schedule I kept were designed to narrow my focus to my esoteric studies.
I find it interesting that people in our culture find this behavior so controversial in this generation. Such quests and immersions used to be considered an important part of one's personal development... from Catholic confirmation education to Scout badge-earning to ministry training to sorority/fraternity hazing, all of these are designed to pull the focus inward to the individual and the specific person/group in question. Or perhaps it is just that we can't extrapolate behaviors in other areas of our lives and apply those concepts broadly as we see how we react to different situations.
To me, K/k (M/s) is not such an extreme way of living that it has no foundation in the "real world" -- rather, I see that we are -all- enslaved to something (often many things) in our lives. Simply look at the things that you can't walk away from, and see what your relationship is to the other aspects of that thing (Example: are you the manager or the managee? Do you run the show, or do you do the down-and-dirty-labor, or a little of both? Do you own the credit, or does the credit own you?) In recognizing our own complicity/responsibility in the shaping of our overall life, decisions to enter into relationships that expand on the concepts and behaviors that fulfill us is less strange than many of us "get off" on thinking that it is.
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- . i can get the emotions he feels and the whole rest of it. but i will never ever fully know what they feel when they beat me and hear me cry, what that sensation is in their chest or their gut or wherever it is. i will never know how much they want it or how much they want to do more and how it feels to pull back or push their sadism on because i am not dominant and i dont have those drives and i am not a sadist. ive seen their pupils dilate when i kneel infront of them and look up and i know theyre feeling, responding but i have no idea what that feeling is or what theyre thinking or how deep down it goes 
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