CynthiaWVirginia
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Joined: 2/28/2010 From: West Virginia, USA Status: offline
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Since I didn't have a career...I've had a lot of interesting jobs. Some of them were as a live in domestic servant. Children were in the house. A few were retired women who dragged me around with them in public everywhere, and I served wherever we were. I was chewed out in public if I messed up in some real or imagined way. Nobody was traumatized over seeing a servant. When friends visited, I was either sitting in some corner mending something or off doing dishes or something worse, while seeing to it that anything needed was brought to my employer and her guest. When I was in another room, she rang a bell. This was vanilla employment, not kink. In households with kids, the parents made (a big mistake) me pick up their kids' clothing from off the floor, clean up their toys and make their beds, as well as drive them to and from every extra school activity. I grew to hate sitting in ballgame bandstands, getting sunburned, waiting for practice or the game to be over. People all over America have no problem with domestic servants, neither do their kids. Why would the kids need to know anything that happens behind closed doors? If it's discreet, and they guy isn't wearing a tutu while doing dishes, and singing, "I'm a little teapot..." I agree that the sub should be only under the orders of one person and definitely not able to be ordered about by teenagers. Been there, done that, and teenagers can be sadistic little monsters if they figure out they have the power to order an adult around. As for nowadays, a lot of us have children...who live with us. Life doesn't stop. I don't do anything sexual in front of my son and wouldn't do anything that would make him uncomfortable. But I also need to say that dominance/submission has been part of vanilla households since time began...if daddy wears the pants in the family or if mommy's the boss, well...this is very old hat to many. My dad was a complete asshat, but when he walked in that door...the king/ruler/despot/BOSS had arrived. Some of the guys in my family tree (and friends in the 80's) married oriental girls...and this was definitely a vanilla D/s relationship. Nobody intervened, but respected how their family dynamics worked. When my ex remarried, he went traditional and had his father make an arranged marriage for him...and she may hate his guts a lot of the time...but they stay married...have four kids...and their culture expects the man to have the final word at home. The children are raised to have these same cultural beliefs. It exists. BDSMers didn't invent D/s relationships. I agree that the rest of BDSM should be kept from kids and vanillas who would be traumatized.
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