njlauren
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ORIGINAL: peppermint You do realize, I hope, that male submissives/slaves and their Mistresses fall in love, get married, and have families. They go to the movies with friends. They have backyard BBQs. The decorate the tree at Christmas time. They cook dinner. They clean house. They work. They pay bills. As to why they do it, I guess it's because they want to do it. As Puck said in "a Midsummer's night dream" "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" *lol*. One of the things that fascinates me is how many people can't get a handle around the fact that a dominant and their sub/slave, can be in a 'real' relationship, that for most part people into various kinds of BD/SM relationships are, well, people. I don't know if it is because they have read to many fiction stories of the cold dom/me with their property, the various images of the leather clad bitch beating some stupid sub into submission, what they forget is the people involved are real, they have jobs, they have hobbies, they have interests and likes and non likes, and as far as I can tell, dominants and subs/slaves alike need to feel love, warmth, affection , touch, etc. However it plays out, it is still a relationship. I remember reading in "Different Loving" about a married couple, male dom, female sub/slave (whatever), with kids, and how they lived, it made a big impression on me in terms of what D/s and relationships mean. A friend of mine (who looks a lot like Kyra Sedgewick on the program "the closer") had someone make these generalizations about what a D/s was, what a BD/SM relationship was, and my friend said "Do you think all I do is wear leather and constantly beat my slave, push them around, etc? Or that I don't love her as much as you love your wife? You would be really shocked, then, to find us both in our old nighties, sitting on the couch watching TV together and laughing or snuggling, or baking cookies, or asking how each of our days went"...... they seem to forget that real life exists for people in the community, they seem to think like in some cliched story that dommes are all these rich women with mansions who enslave poor subs for their amusement, etc....*sigh*. Last I checked most of us work for a living, dominant or submissive/slave.
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