HisEvelyn
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Joined: 1/21/2010 Status: offline
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AQSM - I share your mild allergy of latex. Ugh, it makes things annoying and painful sometimes, doesn't it??? That's why for me, usually I insist on knowing someone is tested clean, and I'm on birth control pills. Condoms aren't a long-term solution unless I woke up one morning with a strange fetish for constant vaginal itchiness and irritation. And that's yet to happen. Go figure. :) As for limits? I speak from the perspective of a slave who was VERY new and misinformed about the entire lifestyle when she entered it. To the point where negative stereotyping and hollywood's demonizing had made me terrified of ever submitting to a man, even though everything about my personality screamed that such was exactly what I wanted to do. So when I first got to know my Master, I had 'hard limits' up the yin-yang. I was so scared of certain things, because I had NO idea what they were about, and in a vanilla sense, many of them seemed horrible (having a man beat your ass until it is red and bruised seemed horrific to me when I didn't have the experience to understand the psychological aspect of it). And my Master let me have my 'hard limits', knowing full well that as I learned about things, I would begin to adjust, without any 'pushing' on his part. And it was very true. He never pushed me, he never tried to make me do anything I had said I wasn't willing to do. He did make it clear the things he was interested in doing, but told me it was completely ok if we never did them. And as we grew closer and more trust was established, I discovered that i was going to HIM to ask if we could try things that had been limits for me before. He'll be using a crop on me during our next visit, which I am ridiculously excited about. And I asked HIM to do so, because now I want to experiemnt and try all sorts of stuff. He had told me before such an activity was something he enjoyed, but he never pushed it on me. If he had, I think it would still be a limit. These days, almost 9 months later, I have a much better idea of how the whole concept of 'limits' works. And better how to categorize mine. There are some things that i will NEVER be ok with doing, no matter how exuberant I get (children, animals, needles, scat, urine, bloodplay, poly, anything that will get me arrested). And these limits, like others have said, are there mostly because they would cause serious harm to me, emotionally or mentally. Or involve risks I am not willing to take, such as getting arrested (I like having a clean record, thanks). I no longer call things I don't know about, hard limits. They become soft limits now, in the manner of "I'll try them if my Master wants it, and the situation/mindset is right".
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