HeatherMcLeather
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Joined: 5/21/2011 From: The dog house Status: offline
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I'm not a dominant, and have very little experience with dominants <1 & 1/4 Dommes is the way we phrase it > but I am inclined to agree with Awareness and Thor. Obviously you can <and should> learn various things of a technical nature such as how to safely do knife or fire play or how to wield a single tail properly. But I think that being dominant is something life teaches you. It may take many years or just a few, but it isn't really something somebody else can teach you. That's why I find myself questioning the people my age who say they are dominant. It's not impossible, just unlikely in my mind. Hanners likes to say it is either in you or not, and if it's not, then there's just no point trying. Be a top. I also think that spending time as a sub or bottom is a good way to learn, that is how Hanners learned and she's really very good at it, but she used her experience as a sub as a negative template of sorts, she identified everything she felt her Mistress had been doing wrong and did those things differently. I'm guessing Thor's experience was the opposite, so maybe it isn't the best method for everybody, but it does seem to work if you can do it.
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