myotherself
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Joined: 3/9/2006 From: The cold bit of the UK Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Contentment I'm reading many profiles of different submissive people (mostly women, as I'm straight, but I have read a few others). I keep getting stuck on the terms of "punishment" or "discipline" in regards to treatment of themselves. Many of the profiles seem to suggest that this treatment is what they want, which, to my understanding, defeats the whole point of calling it by either name. I have to disagree here. I want and need a relationship with firm boundaries and expectations. If for some reason I overstep those boundaries or do not live up to his expectations, I expect to be punished. It helps to focus my mind and stops me from making the same mistake twice. I don't get punished often, because I am disciplined within myself and follow the rules and instructions well. Punishment is not fun. I'm a masochist, and he has ways of making pain play really unpleasant and something I don't want to repeat. He prefers to inflict pain as punishment, and I accept his preference. I don't object to just torturing a person for my own amusement, but calling it a "punishment" or "discipline" strikes me as misuse of the words. Round here that's called 'funishment' Pain play as pleasure is totally different. I often beg Master for pain play, and as he's a sadist then often that's enough to get things moving, lol Those words are reserved for things they don't want and in response to things they did wrong. Punishments must suit the crime and discipline must correct the mistake. *shrugs* - I'm sure those people will clarify with their Dominant/Top/whatever what they mean by what they say. YMMV I don't have this wrong, so what's going on here? semantics, mostly. One person's punishment is another person's funishment. Don't get hung up on the terminology and you'll find life is a little less stressful
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