SylvereApLeanan
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Joined: 11/1/2007 From: Hell Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact Can it bring people closer together? Yes. The best comparison I can give you is how some folks feel about sex. Some people can engage in casual sex and they don't feel anything for the person they had sex with. Other people feel sex has an emotional tie to it. (I'm actually the latter.) As a sadist, inflicting pain doesn't make Me feel emotional ties to someone. I'm different about casual play than I am about casual sex. I can do this stuff for fun just as easily as I can do it for love. Other people feel differently about that than I do and it's a part of why some people don't play unless they are in a relationship with that person. Oh, you specifically mentioned rage or libido. Well, first of all, don't let people play with you if they are enraged. As always, LP is awesome. She and I agree on a lot of things, but we do have some differences, so I'm going to use her post as a jumping-off point. Sadist that I am, one might think that I would be delighted to play casually in order to inflict the most pain on the most people. Not so. I'm one of those that doesn't like to play without an emotional attachment. However, there is nothing of my libido involved in causing pain. As much as I enjoy causing pain, it isn't my primary focus. It's merely a tool, just as sex is a tool. When I top, I become very detached and clinical. Picture the mad scientist, tinkering away with test tubes and beakers only, in this case, it's with paddles and floggers. If I do X, what happens? Or, if I want Y reaction, what must I do to get it? These are the questions running through my head when I top. My primary kink is control, but not the sort that comes from restraining someone. I need the openness and emotional transparency of a deeply intimate relationship to achieve the level of control I crave. I only hurt the ones I love, otherwise, it isn't fulfilling for me. So, when you ask if it brings people closer, my answer is no...I need to be very close to them already. On the topic of playing when your D-type is enraged, I'm going to differ with LP, slightly. I can play when I'm enraged, and will occasionally seek it out, because topping requires me to exert control over myself (have I mentioned I have a Thing for control?) and gives me a way to detach emotionally from whatever it is that's bothering me. I wouldn't recommend you play with just anyone when they're enraged, but it depends largely on how the person handles anger/rage and how much trust you've built beforehand.
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