Kana
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ORIGINAL: Copper29 In exploring the kink community at large and this forum specifically, I've run across many people who state that they are only interested in "real" bdsm experience, or that they are frustrated with the lack of a "real" experience. However, it seems to me that there is no real consensus on what exactly that experience is, much like eating "real" food or having "real" hobbies. Every person has a different and specific idea about what that means, and has different ideas about what does not qualify as as true bdsm. This seems counteractive to me-- as if we were policing other's interests and kinks, as if one experience somehow invalidates another. What are we to gain from criticizing another's desire? Is it not "real" bdsm if they're new, or unsure about what they're doing? If they pay for it? If their hard limits are what someone else would consider vanilla? What for you, counts as "real" bdsm? What quantifies it? Why do you feel that your brand is the true version, while others are not? Discuss. To me real happens live and in person. Why? Because last time I tried to fuck my monitor I cut the living crap out of the Diggler. Buuuuuut, I also accept that,crazy as it may sound, my way,while obviously being the right and proper way (Cuz its mine-duh), is perhaps not the only way. Thus, I would say that whatever two interacting parties determine is real for them is, well, real. Reality, doods, it's in the eye of the beholder
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