CreativeDominant -> RE: no more D/s? (7/28/2006 5:36:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: songofeire And are there no more Dominants out there who have a clue at all as to what it means to be Dominant? So many I have spoken with, speak impassionedly of their desire to please the woman... Good afternoon Rosemary, Then there is the flip side of the equation.... And rather than re-invent the wheel I'll just quote one of my own essays: quote:
My Dominance comes from my heart. Just as my love does. Do not confuse tenderness with weakness, and strictness with Dominance. I can be as soft and tender as a teddy bear and dominate you. It is who I am. You follow me because it is your heart's path to do so. It is, perhaps, your thought that a Dominant somehow needs to maintain their position, that they must "make" their submissives... submit. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I don't have to _do_ anything to make you submit. If I have to make you do it, whether by use of coercion, pain, strength, blackmail, you are not submitting, you are not consenting. I am forcing. There is a huge difference between a scene such as a mock rape or kidnapping, and living in a power exchange. Within the context of a scene I may threaten, cajole, use force, whatever... But in my relationship, I will not _make_ you do anything. I will not punish with anything more than disappointment and something to make you regard your error... Consent. You consent to our relationship. You submit to My will. If you do not, then perhaps it is best for you to seek someone who will play the game you seek. I don't play emotional games in my relationship. I expect submission. Submission does not mean blind obedience. Submission does not mean becoming a doormat. Submission means that you turn your will over to me. My decisions are your law. That doesn't mean you can't argue, because I have charged you with looking after my best interests. You are charged with taking care of me, meeting my needs. If I do something that you feel is against my best interest, it is your duty to ME to point that out. And my duty to you to listen. And then decide what to do. And once I make that decision it is your duty to try to make it come out right. I have a responsibility to you as well. You have turned your will over to me. I am responsible to meet your needs, to care for you. To nourish, to nurture, to help you grow stronger, wiser. So you in turn can care for me better, so I can care for you better. We are not here to play emotional games with each other. If you have needs, communicate them clearly, honestly and directly. I am not a mind reader. Do not expect me to meet them if you do not communicate them. I will, by default do as _I_ need to do. And if that is to be gentle, kind, loving, you have agreed to that by submitting to me... You are absolutely right, there are people out there claiming to be submissive, who have no clue what the word means. If it is MY desire as a dominant to give my partner joy and pleasure, that's MY freaking decision. As a submissive, she needs to shut up, lay back and enjoy it if that's what _I_ want to do. If she can't follow directions and needs to be forced, she ain't a submissive, she's playing games. And that, as Paul Harvey likes to say, "is the rest of the story". YIK, - Geoff I will agree with Popeye and thetammyjoe. After a thread on here recently that discussed whether or not a submissive had the right to point out the dominant's faults, criticize the dominant, etc.. and seeing some of the responses, I seriously considered putting up a thread on submission and what it means, from my perspective anyway. I understand that no one follows the dictionary definitions completely in WIITWD but, at the end of the day, no matter how you slice it or dice it or rice it, submission means "a yielding of control". Now, the amount of your life choices/behavior you choose to yield control of is up to you but understand that the amount helps someone...like it or not...to form a judgment (and apply said judgment in the form of a label, even if only in their own mind) as to what type of submissive you are, according to his perspective. Just as what he will and will not take responsibility for, what type of play he engages in, whether or not he expects to control everything, some things, or nothing except sex allows you to make a judgment (and apply a label...there's that dreaded word again...even if only in your own mind) as to what type of dominant he is. In my mind, if there is no yielding of control...and I mean true yielding of the nature as Geoff put it so well, then there is no submission. There might be a game...or a challenge...but there is not submission. One of my pet peeves is the type of profile that says "my submission must be earned". Though I try to think good thoughts about the statement and not pre-judge it, it bugs me every time I see it because the first thought in my head is "And just how do I do that?" The second thought is "Are you going to be one of those who tells me how I must dominate in order for you to submit? Could that not be construed as topping from the bottom?" Maybe in many cases, it isn't...but I've talked to quite a few where that is exactly the case.
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