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LadyNTrainer -> RE: Online Dominantion: Do any lifestyle Dommes enjoy it (6/4/2010 10:25:18 AM)
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I tend to describe myself as a refugee from academia, but the fact is that there is no refuge. [:D] I have automatic high expectations of intelligence, literacy, articulation, good science and solid principles of logic from anyone I am in conversation with. They aren't always met perfectly, and I can deal with that to some extent. But a crackpot parody of academic standards with deliberately flawed data and not just premature but utterly unsupported conclusions declared is one of the few things that has the power to make me run away yelling "Safeword!" There's a lot of web pages like that, especially in the conspiracy and New Age genres. They are a glimpse into literal insanity.
Having high standards in this respect also makes online domination and roleplaying interesting. I used to participate a fair bit in the MUCK/MUSH/MOO communities online, building elaborate sets for roleplaying on these early text-based, non graphical platforms. It was always fairly difficult to find partners who could match my standards for good quality creative writing, plotlines, settings and character backstory. I finally stopped erotic roleplaying online altogether in favor of nonsexual roleplaying gaming where the focus was purely on the writing, the plot and the character development, because the quality of creative writers interested in the latter was so much higher. I would much rather roleplay a high quality but totally or primarily nonsexual story online than something erotic or kinky with lower quality writing.
When the graphical servers for virtual shared worlds came out, I participated some, but ran into the same issues where people were mostly substituting pretty pictures or hack and slash gaming for good quality character and plot development in their roleplaying. I largely abandoned that also when it became pretty clear it wasn't the best environment for actual high quality roleplaying.
And that is one thing that a text-based online environment can do that is harder to achieve in reality, and that is the introduction of fantastic or magical props and settings with good suspension of disbelief. Currently I run an online roleplaying group weekly in a text-based environment, and all the participants are *excellent* creative writers with a real investment in their characters and the storyline. It's not sexual or kinky at all, though very occasionally adult themes have cropped up in the course of the game. Now if I had a kinky roleplaying partner of the same caliber as my experienced and plot-focused roleplaying gamers, I expect we'd have a lot of fun. Actually both my partners would fit that description, but since we're a real life household, we don't do too much of our interaction online. We have done some, and it's been fun. I'd enjoy doing it again. But as long as I can get my hands on them in person, I'm guessing that we probably won't be spending a ton of time typing to each other online.
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