JeffBC
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Joined: 2/12/2012 From: Canada Status: offline
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As is pretty much always true, I heartily endorse Athena's post. I'd recommend the OP read it until he memorized it. This particular bit resonated with my own initial experiences... I understand you want a reference point because you don't have much experience with people who do BDSM or D/s. Yup, I needed some sense of order out of chaos when I first started in on all this too and so I grasped at the same sort of simplistic labels and concepts. So don't feel bad OP... I was quite a bit older and more experienced than you and I made the same mistake. But the truth is, just as Athena said, there are no cookie cutter answers. Let's use the whole "awe" thing as an example. Your website gave you one view on "awe". Here's my view: Carol is occasionally awed by something I do but then again, she awes me not infrequently also. That has nothing to do with dominance and submission. It has to do with having an awesome partner. Just as Athena said, Carol and I both love and respect and trust each other a great deal. Again, that has nothing to do with D/s. I picked a partner who was worthy of respect and worthy of trust and fell in love with her. That's what she did too. Here's another more subtle difference in that "awe" thing. Your website was looking at a different form of BDSM than I deal in. In fact, I consider that form "the fantasy version". That, by the way, doesn't make it true. It just means my viewpoint varies SO FAR from theirs that I cannot in any way grasp it as reasonable. Again, I'm expressing different viewpoints not "right" & "wrong". But for me, any construct like, "The sub is supposed to be in awe of the domme" is directly in fantasy land for me. What we're talking about there is hypothetical roles and hypothetical rules. It's smoke & mirrors through and through. Who cares what is "supposed" to be? I want to know what IS. And in reality nobody is awed by anyone unless they find the person awesome. Anything else is a shabby facade. So if you want to be awed by your domme then find yourself an awesome one. Then the awe will be genuine, authentic, and happen all by itself without the need for "shoulds". One last point... my own entrance into all this was recent enough that I remember the journey. I'll offer you this bit of accumulated wisdom. For the most part my observation of BDSM in the real world bears little resemblance to what I read about BDSM online. That is true even here on the discussion side of collarme and I consider this a very good quality discussion board for BDSM (although I agree it's pretty vanilla). I'd recommend sticking to here and carefully selected groups on FetLife and pretty much ignoring any other random meanderings you run across. Most of them are entirely made up garbage. Even here... take things with several grains of salt. Even those of us who try hard to portray our actual reality find it hard to do so in short text blocks... or giant rambling walls o' text in my case :)
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I'm a lover of "what is", not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. -- Bryon Katie "You're humbly arrogant" -- sunshinemiss officially a member of the K Crowd
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