MarcEsadrian
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ORIGINAL: Awareness There's a difference between a mature adult making choices and a neophyte who's not yet developed the perspective to do so. Slight anti-rhetorical nit: "mature adult" is not the counter poll of neophyte; that would be "expert". There is experience and then there is lack of it. I don't concern myself with either, really. It is potentiality that has always interested me, and I find this at both poll points, in the young and the old. If one shows a bright core of desire and potential, why wouldn't you wish to consume and mould it? I couldn't care less for resumes and experiential checklists; good, raw material is far more important, and sometimes the one who contains this understands generally where he/she wishes to go with it; you need only employ force with a certain art for both parties to be fulfilled. A successful D/s relationship has more to do with mutual compatibility, not notions of uniform experience or a morality metric, for that matter. While experience doesn't hurt, it doesn't necessarily always help, either. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness A new sub is ripe to be taken advantage of. In the intial sub-frenzy state, they'll often be easily led down a path toward an end-goal they never anticipate. That depends entirely upon the human being in question. It is my experience those new to the world of submission are curious, yes, even hungry to burn a little—but frenzied? It's no doubt the case for some, but those who have crossed my path have been very passionate, intelligent and inquisitive. I've had two young, impressionable fledglings who were quite fervent, but still in control of their winches, nonetheless. Perhaps paradoxically to this discussion, they also thought fondly of being victims to what I will call "responsible predation®". quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness Essentially, it's often easy to get a woman from point A to point B as long as you do it by sufficiently slow degrees. With subs, it's even easier. Many not only want to obey but crave an authority figure who will push their limits while doing so. If this is information you've arrived upon from first-hand experience, I can only hope you've repented and changed your wicked ways. < /sarcasm > quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness Ethics is an unfashionable word in an arena which plays to notions of indulging the self as being the only good which matters. There's no doubt a thread of absolute truth in that for a certain piece of the D/s pie, but such types usually end up winning the Darwin Award sooner or later. Personally, many sets of ethics are unfashionable to me strictly for the reason that "ethics" are so often behind the cudgel of mainstream repudiation (and ignorance) of what I practice. D/s is not insultated from that phenomenon of "ethics", either; its very practioners (often green themselves in one way or another) routinely seek to extend its punitive tentacles well into this world, too. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness In short, if one is dominant, one has no need for victims. Need? Of course not. But desire? Well, that is always optional, to say the least. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness This arena is far less iconoclastic than you seem to think. Underlying the awareness of their own kink, most people here merely make a show of tolerance but in private are every bit as conservative as their vanilla counterparts. This is true with the surface strata. Dig deeper into the motives and personalities that drive the less trodden layers beyond mere "kink" and I'm sure you will notice how very different things are, if you haven't already. Rise back up to the surface again, and you see that even "kink" itself is a rebellion from the norms of classic sexual paradigms and the stigmas they perpetuate. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness I'm not remotely interested in women who want to be hollowed out into an empty shell for me to fill. I've never found the notion particularly vile, but rather literally quite difficult to fulfill. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness Sociopathy is fairly well documented and in the context of the discussion the meaning was clear. My point was that ASPD is a difficult thing to dole out responsibly over a post about what seems to be an artless jerk. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness To say that this arena is full of dysfunction is not an inaccurate statement. The tendency for people to simply say that BDSM is an unfairly disparaged community is absolute nonsense. I think this is a patently false idea. I have never seen any indication that the BDSM world is anything more than a smaller representation of norms proportional to regular society in terms of psychopathology. quote:
ORIGINAL: Awareness There are also perfectly healthy human beings with integrity who just enjoy their own personal kink - however I'm very much getting the impression that these are in the minority. I can't possibly contend otherwise, because your version of "healthy" and mine probably don't match very well, and so in the end we would merely be comparing respective tastes and opinions in a grandiose pissing contest. I can say with relative surety, however, that those who "just enjoy personal kink" are in the majority against all other subsets in BDSM.
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Omnes una manet nox Founder, Humbled Females
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