njlauren -> RE: Um, just needed to ask something (8/23/2013 1:32:35 PM)
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I agree with others, one of my first suggestions is to understand the difference. Having a girl put on a collar and a pair of CFM's and having her strut around or crawl is kinky, but it doesn't mean it is submission, either, could simply be kinky role play. Submission plays out in many ways, but in general it is a power dynamic between the people that goes beyond play, it is where someone willingly accepts the lead of the other person, cedes over control that isn't just a kinky turn on in the bedroom (there is nothing wrong with kinky turn ons in the bedroom, but there is a difference, for example, between erotic spanking play and spanking used in a Ds as punishment or even in play within that context). What a sub gets out of it varies, it can of course be hot as hell (speaking as a sub) to be played with, to be told what to do, to surrender power in those situations, but there also is a level of trust and for me, love, involved, there is the dynamic that I know my domme gets a need fulfilled in taking the power I have given her, and she in turn, from what she has told me, also sees the need in me being fulfilled, and that is an incredible thing in any relationship alone, plus there is a tension there, too, knowing i have ceded power and never knowing quite how she might exercise it (within our bounds, of course). I think the simplest explanation of D/s is that it is rewiring the power structure and dynamics of a relationship where balance is tipped strongly in favor of one person over another, and the person receiving the unequal balance and the one giving into it both feel like their life is in equilibrium like this (where a vanilla person would feel the shifted balance of power and would feel out of sort:).
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