SusanofO -> RE: Forced! (9/3/2006 11:42:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mistoferin quote:
ORIGINAL: SusanofO Well, perhaps you're right. But I think maybe it is, mistoferin. I think we may just have a philosophical difference. After all, if you're not submitting, are you really being dominated? In a D/s relationship, one person has conceded power to the other. Doesn't mean it plays out in action every minute of the day, but it's an underlying premise of the relationship. If it wasn't, it would in fact, be a vanilla relationship. The deal, as I see it, is this: The Domiant could make a request, or order the submissive to do something at any time, and the submissive would have to do it. I here it's "just who I am as person" talk - I hear that. Maybe some people are simply submissive personalities in thier own right. I don't doubt for a minute these people exist (because I think I am one of them). But, they aren't a submissive in a relationship in an active way, unless there is someone else who is being Dominant over them. At least I don't think so. I hear people say things like, "my Dominant is always with me, even when he isn't there I feel his power", etc. I get that. But they are still, then, being dominated. Because they are in a D/s relationship. I don't understand what you mean by I am not submitting. If I am in submission to someone...I am submitting. That person has no real need to run around actively dominating and exercising his dominance to gain that submission....he already has it. It shouldn't have to be active work every minute of every day...it should just be there naturally. I don't need constant "you're under my thumb" reminders in order to submit....it is what the entire dynamic is comprised of. Well, I think I see what you may mean, (and I didn't mean you, in particular) But - at some point, the way I see things, you agreed to not make certain (or any) decisions, for instance, and let somone else take that responsibility. Otherwise, it would be a vanilla relationship, and you would not be, in fact, submitting to anyone. So, at some point, you "asked to be forced". *Even if he isn't forcing you every single minute of the day, it's because you've already agreed to submit, and it therefore simply isn't necessary. Does that fact it's not mean you're not a submissive? Of course not. In fact, if you had not "agreed to be forced" initially, he'd have to spend a lot more time "forcing" you. But to me, the whole word submit implies someone else is indeed a Dominant. And dominant implies force, whether it is active, and in-your-face, or subtle, mental, agreed-upon-before-hand at the outset of a relationship force. A submissive is submitting to something, or someone. Otherwise why use the term? What are you submitting to if you're not a submissive? His good looks? Maybe power would be a better term to use (but it was not the term used by the OP, so I've avoided it).
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