SimplyMichael
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ORIGINAL: jujubeeMB I definitely respect your opinion, but I think you're sort of missing the point. I didn't say, at any point, that aftercare is only for subs, or try to insist that everyone needs it. I was asking what people thought because I need it, and I'm not getting it. I think my Dom thinks very much like you, actually - that there's a submitting whenever he does anything that isn't something he wants to do, but is rather something that I want him to do. He thinks that as a sub, my role should be to please him and that should make me happy in and of itself. The problem, of course, is that I'm not defined solely by my submissiveness, and the rest of me struggles with being psychologically dragged through the mud. I'm not talking pleasure/pain subspace, I'm talking being made to feel like a total object/whore in a repeatedly slapping down manner. And don't get me wrong - I love it. It's high on my list of sexual activities: being humiliated and degraded down into a total submissive heap. However. I am also a really deeply loving, kind, sensitive human being who doesn't really want to feel like an object/whore except in protected sexual situations. Not everyone believes that a submissive's role is to do whatever she's told and like it; personally, I'm more of the give and take camp, like some of the previous posters. I think that if you want me to go down that far and be that total vulnerable sex toy for you, I have to feel like I can trust you, and that you care about me. Like you said, it could easily be a compatibility issue. That's why I'm asking, not so I can use it as an excuse to end the relationship. I do find it a bit ironic that you're yelling about aftercare being a crock of shit and yet have stated that it's something that you need, and you find it insensitive that there aren't threads about Doms needing aftercare. I think everyone should have what they need emotionally and psychologically, including you. So don't you think I should have what I need emotionally and psychologically? As for your direct questions: Is it something that I'm causing to myself? Possibly. I get off on humiliation, which doesn't work unless you're humiliated by it. So obviously when I let someone do the things that he does to me, I'm inviting it. However, he is doing it to me too. He knows exactly what he's doing - that's part of what makes him incredible at what he does - and he enjoys it. We both do, but there's no naivete on his part where the effects on me are somehow hidden. I don't think he's a terrible person. I don't think I am, either. I think we both deserve to not feel like crap the next day, however, and at present, I'm the one who does. This is the central problem of bdsm. Many want one or the other but very few can actually exist that way but those who want JUST to be used as a whore wonder why they feel used up at some point and those who want all the soft warm fuzzy love wonder why the heat they once felt drifts off. Of course, there are three exceptions to this generalization and all four of them will post to this thread how they do just this but the 2,502,696 posts on the board wondering what the fuck happend to them would seem to counter that. Dominants get lost in this too. They think they realy can treat a woman like whore without seeing her as having other sides to her, other needs. Same goes for those fluffy doms who just want to treat her like a princess. The reality is most of us want some of this, some of that, oh, and a bit of that too. Learning to talk about, explore together, and have the time of your life turning her into a pathetic cum eating hole while running her a bubble bath, bringing her breakfast in bed after having raped her ass takes time to learn. But it is sure fun when you get there!
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