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subbyinlosangele -> RE: Reflections on the product of countless millenia of Masters & slaves in history & what it means now (5/15/2012 12:37:40 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Pyramus
Recently, I received a PM from a married woman who wondered 'why' she felt the way she did about submission.
For me, the answer is in my journal - but it all boils down to the fact that we humans are at the same time herd animals and victims of the wiring in our brains.
Large herd or small, someone leads the pack - while the rest follow - and - at the same time, we're predisposed to one side or the other.
Every member of the herd has is place, except those who rebel, who are cast outward. Given that, I suspect many of us have both Master and slave in our bloodlines. For example, it has been estimated that half of the Roman population of the old empire, were chattel. Given the natural pairing of a man and a woman, slave or otherwise, I suspect many of us are descendent of children born of that situation. Likewise with anyone who traces roots back to South America, where the triple mix is between Iberian, African, and indigenous peoples. Certainly the Gauls (e.g., French) and Barbarians (e.g., Germans) and Celts (e.g., Irish) all raped while they pillaged and plundered. Would we not be the natural descendants of such "unions'?
Personally, I read all I can on historical treatment of slaves, from Aristotle's theory of natural slavery to rules on the treatment of the black slaves of the American south. I try to learn from the experience of entire cultures enslaved by others. It is an interesting read - and it's truth more so than fiction.
At the moment, given these reflections, I feel it is quite natural for some of us to be wired as Masters while others are naturally wired to submit. One serves to please - the other employs for pleasure.
It's all in a whirl in my brain - but it makes sense - at the obscure level.
Have any of you mused similarly?
I find your musings a little farfetched and simplistic, to be frank. People are more complex than you seem to give them credit for, and I find that BDSM activities are often a counterbalance to other parts of a person's life, rather than a manifestation of some uniform brain wiring. I really doubt that ancient bloodlines play a huge influence in a person's BDSM activities today. I'd say the influences are more recent and less obscure.
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