Noah
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ORIGINAL: heartfeltsub For those of you who are sadists, may i ask do you prefer to "play with" or look for someone who enjoys the pain for pain sake or someone who doesn't really enjoy the pain for pain sake but submits to it for your sake? Also on the same vein, do you prefer to "play with" or look for someone who can go into sub space from the pain or someone who doesn't end up floating from the pain, but stays in the moment. i see so many profiles from people who are sadists who say they are looking for masochists and they always make me wonder, because if inflicting pain is what arouses a person sexually, if the person receiving the pain processes it as pleasure, i would think that would lessen the "pleasure" of inflicting the pain. Hence the question. Thank you in advance for your answers. heartfelt *editted because i can't seem to type lately. The experiences which my partners and I deal in are not one-dimensional, either/or sorts of things. Like most people, I suppose, I value the experience of art, music, etc, which operates--and operates upon me--at various levels simultaneously. And non-simultaneously, come to think of it. If the currents at one level run contrary to the currents at another I certainly don't see this as a weakness in a piece of art. Quite the contrary. Your post, for which I thank you, and its similarity to so many posts in this and similar forums almost every day, testify to the fact that there is a contraryness, maybe even a paradox, near the heart of S&M. Some people come near a paradox and immediately reach for their tools, insisting that this must be resolved into something simpler. I think that sometimes no resolution is possible beyond a personal resolution to experience the paradox for all it is worth. At the very least I like my interactions to be physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual. Complexities, including conflicts, can exist on any given level so of course they can exist between levels. That this is so doesn't trouble me in the least, and I have no urge to boil down the whole nor any part, nor dissect and label it. Maybe you are a person who likes to analyze things. That's cool. In the case of genuine paradox , though, analysis is good for little more than a sort of isometric mental exercise. I'm not against thinking things through, but analysis is only one mental tool among many. There are lots of modes of thought. I suspect that analysis tends to be overused, and simple reflection with awareness of feelings tends to be underused. I can't assure you that the case at hand represents genuine paradox, but based on the frequency of the question I suspect that this may be an issue which doesn't submit itself readily to analysis. Mightn't it be nice to leave the analyzing behind for a while? Just crawl under someone's boot and gape in wonder at the inward and outward beauty of it all?
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