Entrancer
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I think that if your profile indicates you aren’t interested in what they are suggesting, then the proper response would be to simply block them from any further contact. However, if it doesn’t, then it becomes a little more complicated. If someone is “actively looking” then, presumably, meeting in person is a necessary step. In my experience, you can waste a lot of time exchanging emails, and then when you finally meet…nothing. Besides which, I can get a much more accurate “sense” of someone in one hour face-to-face than I can spending 20 hours exchanging emails. It’s far too easy to “hide” behind a computer screen, and while the phone is better, you still lose 80% of what is being communicated vis-a-vis a face-to-face meeting. So…I generally prefer to “cut to the chase” sooner rather than later. But…especially for a male Dom approaching a female sub…to suggest meeting in the first email very strongly implies (in my mind) a combination of arrogance, cluelessness and self-centeredness. There are certain levels of social “proprieties” that are fairly universal, and it seems to me that suggesting (or even worse, demanding or commanding!) a meeting in the first email is outside the pale, and should be a huge red flag. There have been a lot of suggestions as to why someone might do that already...take your pick. The other side of the coin are the ones who don't want to meet. While I would prefer to “cut to the chase” sooner rather than later, I recognize and accept that social conventions do play an important role. So I will exchange a reasonable number of emails (say…somewhere between 5-20, depending upon a lot of variables) before making that suggestion. If I get resistance at that point, then it becomes a red flag to me (since I’m only interested in local women, this should not be an issue like it would be if someone would have to buy a plane ticket and reserve a hotel room). From my perspective, if at that point they have cold feet, then this suggests that either a) something is rotten in the state of Denmark (as to actually being who/what they represent) or b) fear plays more of a role in shaping their lives than I’m really interested in dealing with. I don’t see a lot of safety-related issues with an anonymous meeting at a local Starbucks, and what safety issues there might be can be relatively easily and expeditiously dealt with. Of course, with a potential “long-distance” relationship, things are more complex, but this post is long enough so I won’t go there.
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