juliaoceania -> RE: What would you do? (8/10/2006 7:25:02 AM)
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Fast Reply. In my opinion this is where having some basis of experience is helpful before forming a dynamic, because you have an idea of the things that you enjoy and the things you do not enjoy. You have a sense of hard and soft limits too. I knew certain things about myself before I started the dynamic I am involved in now. I let him know these things before we ever went there. He had an attitude that he wouldn't ask me to do anything he wouldn't be willing to do himself.. it is a concept he believes a leader should follow (this is for himself and he doesn't press his beliefs on others or judge others for having different leadership structures). I cannot imagine that he would press me to do anything that I was completely squicked by, if I tried it a bunch of times and it never got any better I cannot imagine him demanding I keep doing it. There are certain positions, for example, that I find painful. He doesn't push me to do those positions.. but I am determined one day I will do them! I push myself, he doesn't need to push me I guess. I am not saying that other people are "wrong" for how they want to do something, but I guess a submissive has to make a judgment about what sort of dynamic is best for them before they enter it. They need to think about this long and hard before the blush is off the rose of a new relationship and they are stuck doing things they find revolting. It is hard for a new submissive to know what they will want to do, where they will want to go, and how long it should take to get there. A dominant is the guide to pushing past limits and showing the submissive those things that she never knew would give her pleasure, and they give her even more pleasure because her dominant enjoys them too. It is quite a responsibility for a dom to take on a novice because of this, because she may develop limits that she did not previously have, or lower limits that she thought were hard, and this makes bringing on a novice very touche indeed. It takes sensitivity too. My Daddy has said I am like a tool, use me for a purpose I am not suited and I am liable to break, he doesn't want to break me. With him I push my squicky limits all on my own...all he has to do is suggest something and I am game to at least try it. But in my first dynamic there was this "you will do as I say, even if your intuition is screaming STOP". It destroyed what I had with my first dominant, pushing me past my soft limits, because I no longer trusted him on a deep level. This is just my experience, and everyone has a different one.
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