JustaDom
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Joined: 1/1/2004 Status: offline
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Anger, like nearly everything else, has degrees to it. If I drink at a bar or party and I want to drive home, I know I can have a certain number of drinks over however long and I'll be safe and legal to drive. Drinking alcohol and driving is not a black and white issue, it is an issue of what your blood alcohol level is. I can do the same with anger and punishment. If I were to get so angry with a submissive that it would affect my judgment, I would delay punishment until I'm satisfied that I'm in the right frame of mind again. That being said, I am more disappointed than angry when I need to punish someone and so anger is not much of an issue for me. Many submissives would rather take a beating than to hear their dominant expected better from them. I've punished when I've been angry and I'm sure I will again in the future. I don't lose control over myself easily and become some kind of monster nor have I seen another dominant do so. Frankly, it worries me that some in the scene automatically equate anger and punishment with abuse. Hopefully, as adults, we are more in control of ourselves and hold ourselves to a higher standard than risking abuse every time a dominant is angry with their submissive and determines they need to be punished. I have no argument or disagreement with dominants who make it their personal choice not to punish when they are angry. I hope that they see it as a choice though and not some BDSM dogma. Choose to do so or choose not to do so, just don't think that “Thou shalt not punish when angry” is the missing eleventh commandment. Joe “Take a deep breath. Calm down...have some dip.” George Carlin
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