Ceyx
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Joined: 8/23/2005 Status: offline
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Yet another rant about how the online world is full of liars, fakers, and irresponsible, malicious abusers. (I'm assuming mental abuse, here. Physical abuse would require some face-to-face contact.) The internet does make it easier to lie. (For the record, people can also lie to your face. Some of them quite well.) The internet makes it easier to do a lot of things, such as meeting and getting to know people, or sharing information. Some people want to indulge in their fantasies together, and that's wonderful. Some people have no interest in "cyber" and only want to play face-to-face. Also wonderful. If you're looking for women in the latter category, then the dreaded "cyber-dom" shouldn't be an issue for you. They want to meet, you want to meet; the cyber-dom doesn't want to meet. He's out of the equation. If you hit it off, then get together as soon as possible and have at it. If a girl wants to "cyber" or play over the phone, then she clearly isn't for you. Move on. I'm trying to think of the circumstances in which a young submissive who wants a R/T relationship would be 'polluted' by online contact. If a fellow tells her that he wants to play online, she walks away, yes? She uses the internet solely as a tool to gather information (and as with all sources of information, evaluates its reliability); she visits local events and meets local players, if possible, as is endlessly recommended; the evil cyber-dom has no power over her. The only case of "pollution" I can imagine would be that in which an evil cyber-dom pretends to want to meet a new submissive, then somehow lures her into playing online or over the phone, all while putting off that meeting. And if she's clear that only face-to-face play is real for her, and refuses to give up the kinky goods unless the relationship moves swiftly to R/T, then this fellow isn't getting what he wants and goes away, right? Sad to say, but no one is going to make the internet a bastion of truth, just as no one can take lying and pretense out of the day-to-day world. You have to decide whether the benefits it brings are worth the dangers. If you conclude that the internet is mainly a cesspool of fakery, you always have the option of hitting that 'LOGOUT' button and not coming back. Seek your partners at a local munch, or even through a newsletter or e-mail list with a more limited circulation, managed by someone or some organization that you accept and trust as 'real.' I'm not quite sure what complaining about the evils of the internet, on the internet, is going to accomplish.
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