CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: cr0ckdile How many of you implicitly accept sex as a part of play (I'm strictly referring to short-term partners) and expect it when you decide to hook up with someone for a play scene? Maybe it's highfalutinly romantic of me, but I'd rather keep the two separate, and only make love to someone I am in love with. Thoughts? Opinions? Concerns? I tend to fall more into the school of thought that Sadism and Masochism play is sexual play. After all, the play is being done to elicit feelings of a certain nature in either the giver, the receiver, or both. S/M is defined as sexual pleasure being derived from either infliction of pain or the giving of it. Now, bondage and discipline do not have any such "aura" associated with them...but there again, corporal punishment can be considered to be disciplinary in nature and it is inflicting pain so that would fall into the S/M camp, depending on which side of the punishment you are on and....so on and so on. You can separate it out whichever way works for you but I know myself that when I engage in play, I get sexual feelings from it. They may be light or they may be heavy but they are there. About the only thing that doesn't do it for me sexually...even though I like it and in a bigger context in combination with other factors, it does...is bondage. Personally, I find it difficult to deny that sexual desire exists for me within the framework of play. Do I act on it? Not always. But recognition of it also makes me more cautious about deciding when to play and about communicating my feelings about it to a potential play partner. Finally...I can make love to someone without being in love with them. That being said, the most casual encounters I have had in my vanilla life were a one-night stand wayyyyyyyy back in the dark ages (I was 21) and, in D/s, my bad weekend encounter with a nutzo (which I've posted about before). My other encounters in which play were involved also involved sex of some sort and they have been with people I've known and liked for awhile. I've loved (still love) several of them without being in love with them.
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