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aromanholiday -> RE: TPE and D/s (6/23/2011 4:38:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
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I think master-slave relationships are dying as a practice, although the term TPE may also be going out of style as well (hard to say, I haven't been paying attention to its use). There were a lot more people interested in complete control relationships in the past; not so much now.
What do you base this opinion on? and when is this "past"?... five years ago, 20?
Ok, I will be Celtic Prince and answer your question. [;)] And I will also date myself. I hope that wasn't what you were after (frown). I couldn't answer before, as I was (and still am) on the deadline from hell.
I base my opinions on, among other things: extensive interaction with groups of people online and off- beginning in 1988, particularly submissives. So...23 years or thereabouts having discussions with both dominants and submissives, but talking more to submissives than to dominants, as they were more comfortable to speak to (they weren't always trying to jump my bones) and we had a lot more in common. "TPE" as a term hadn't been invented then. It came in the early 90s, with the Davis/Jacobs wars on a.s.b. I had extensive pre-Internet discussions (The Well, Compuserve, BBS systems), pre-web discussions (alt.sex.bondage), early-Web discussions (I had one of those very early sites--not earlier than Castle Realm's, however [:D]), extensive and very interesting interaction with others on Yahoo in the mid-web period (when yahoo had "Clubs" not "Groups;" when there was no spam, and everything was wide open), and so forth. I read and engaged in print-magazine discussions, article writing for D&S newsletters, and so on, long before it was common for most people to have PCs (I had the PC but there weren't a lot of people to talk to on it, so I used the print outlets as well). I've seen a lot of bdsm history flow by and occasionally, to my dismay, was even in the thick of it when it was being made. But you know, even when I look at this relative latecomer message board's history, say from 4-5 years ago, I see a very marked difference in the types of submissive personalities that used post and that now post: in their ideas, in their expressed interests, and in their goals. The difference in just that short amount of time (I think of it as a mainstreaming and watering down of ideas about D/s and control) is quite astonishing, but in general I was referring to my full experience with this, which occurred long before Collarme was a twinkle in anybody's eye. I imagine (or maybe I just hope) the trend will bounce back in time. Social trends are hard to predict, however.
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