gungadin09
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i think "a need for power" is a much better explanation than "a need for revenge" in most cases. i hear Dominants talk about how hot it is to be in control, not how much they wish they could punish their bitch of an ex. If that's their motivation, then i must say the Dominants i've met are hiding it really, really well. But, yes, i'd say it comes from a deep seated need for *something*. I was doing a scene last weekend, and i kept crying, and the guy started to get concerned. He was like, do you want to stop, and i said, no, i like crying. It's like, for whatever reason, that feels good to me. If i had to articulate the reason, i might say that i have these free floating feelings of guilt and tension, and being hit with things is a way to sort of release that. It feels good. Looking at it the other way 'round, you could say that it makes Someone else feel good to hit me with things; that that's *their* release. These desires are there (i.e. the desire to receive "punishment" and the desire to dole it out), although i think describing these feelings as "guilt" or "resentment/revenge" might be an oversimplification, because they're not just a temporary mood, but rather they make up a part of our personalities. If what i felt was simply "guilt", then i suspect that after a certain number of slaps on the ass i would get over it; consider myself "atoned" for whatever i imagined i had done wrong. Likewise, if Dominants were just out for "revenge", i suspect that after trampling on a certain number of balls they would eventually feel compensated for whatever "wrong" they felt had been done to them. But that doesn't often happen, does it? i think that most kinksters stay kinky (once they come out of the closet, at any rate). i don't see many people leaving kink after being "cured" of whatever brought them here, as if BDSM was a symptom of some kind of emotional disfunction. It's deeper than that for most people, i think. It's an expression of who we are, on a fundamental level. pam
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