Bearlee
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Joined: 10/25/2004 From: South Central CO Status: offline
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What a lovely thread! Thank you all, so much. For what it’s worth, I will add my two-cents worth: Some three years or so ago, I discovered D/s with a kiss; a real-time kiss. The ‘Dom’, who I met on a vanilla dating site would or could not give me enough information for what had ‘happened’ with that kiss. So, of course, I hit Google. Mind you, I’d never heard of BDSM nor D/s or ‘lifestyle’ or WIITTWD. Eventually I landed on the MSN boards and in chatrooms where folks roll-played a bunch; doms entered the rooms and sat in their special chairs, girls entered the room with elaborate paragraphs of swirling skirts and such. I once ‘witnessed’ one “draw his sword and slay another; kicking the dead body in disgust”. All I can say is ‘that was then’ LOL Somewhere in all that, I too began an online relationship that went on six months or so. I learned sooooo much about myself during that time. While it was most certainly a D/s relationship, it (thankfully) did not include the physical aspects of BDSM (I would have ‘choked’ on it.) No, no ‘whap, Whap, WHAP’ for me…no handcuffs or even cyber-sex. It was like real-time, but online…nothing was ‘fake’, is what I’m trying to say. Once, I’d done something bratty…and did so ‘in the chatroom’ while He and I were also IMing. He was furious at my behavior and immediately let me know this in IM. He told me to apologize to the room and leave it; he waited while I did so. Then he told me to get a timer and set it for 35 minutes (enough to read his instructions and get offline entirely. I was to go sit on the floor facing a blank wall. I was to consider my behavior for 30 minutes; when the timer went off I was to sit and write what it was I’d considered. And I fell in love with the guy. Okay…I fell in love with this…..whatever ya want to call it; D/s, the lifestyle…whatever. I felt like I was home at long last. While I avoid online relationships at all costs anymore, I must say that, for me, the one I did enjoy taught me a great deal and was as real as real-life is to me. In the end, it caused me much heartache, as we did meet and all was not as I’d thought. Course, that happens in real-life too. I just wanted to say that while it worked, it worked very well…just like real-life does.
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