bignipples2share
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It was concurred that two of the biggest issues were that we would all have to be able agree, at least by a majority on something, well on anything for a start and that we needed to be able to give recognizable (within reason, allowing that there are many subgroups) definitions to some of our terminology." You mention the watered down BDSM thread, and it gives me pause as to what these labels can can end up doing. I see the validity of both labeling and not labeling. Nobody has to define themselves to anyone, but not having any labels does makes it hard when you’re looking for a partner. The problem I see when slapping on the definitive label is also being thrown in the category of 'just', or the grey area of watered down BDSM. You’re just this and therefore you’re not worthy. We have labels here, you don't fit, get out. Who cares if someone is into this 24/7/365? Ah, but maybe it’s totally for sex. Ha, they aren’t really into this, they are kinksters 24/7/365. Every focus from food, to watching porn on the TV, taking a walk together, tying up their partner..it’s all about sex to them. They don’t belong..oust them out, they’re not really real BDSMers, they don’t fit our labels. To me, I don’t care if someone is only tying someone up on the weekends. They fall under the umbrella of BDSM. They are real, they are just as valid in what they do as the person who does TPE. They may have been using real ropes on the same real partner for 20 years by gawd and if they’re Master of the rope and the other person, so be it. Ahhh, but it could be said the other person who is doing it 23 hours a day has only been doing it for 6 months, so they must be the true BDSMers, it’s not about sex for them. They only have sex once a day and no BDSM while they're having it. Wait, since it’s only 23 hours a day, that means they’re vanilla. Gotta be 24 hours a day or nothing, they’re back to just being kinky. Wait…what’s kinky, does that always involve sex? hmmmm. Never having the need before to slap on a BDSM label on what it is that I do, until I got here, I may have changed that label a bit, not the basis of who I am. Once I find a partner, maybe that label will morph into something different, don’t know. Maybe I’ll just throw that little sticker on my forehead back over my shoulder and walk out and forget the damn labels and just enjoy my partner for whatever the relationship is, not what I've had to label it. So for the sake of putting labels on stuff: Master: Someone with knowledge behind them. Could be they teach groups of people, maybe not, just that they’re capable. May, or may not own a sub, or slave at the moment, yet still has some awesome skills. Doesn't matter if they're teaching anyone anything at the moment either, just that they are capable. I don’t think someone gets to be a Master just because they now own something. Maybe the person never owned anything in their life besides a lamp. Just because a person wants to be owned by them, doesn’t make them any kind of Master. Master of one, Dom of one: Someone who is Dominant and has someone who they Master/Dominate Dom: A dominant person who may, or may not have anyone in their life at the moment. Maybe they have some skills, maybe not, they're still dominant. I agree with your description as well here and with Domme. Domme: Okay, so some people don't think this is a word, maybe it should be, it's just saying that the person is female. I don't see the big deal in making a word that implies a male and a different word for female. Sub: I agree with your description. Slave: I agree with your description, but to be a slave you have to be owned? I just don't get this one. I think a slave is a slave, they are just not owned by someone at the moment, the mentality is still there, they're not morphing into anything that they aren't at the present. So maybe one is a slave (owned) and one is a free slave, or uncollared slave. (not presently owned). Switch: I think if I could wish to be anything at all, it would be this. I think they’ve explained themselves and their variances quite well in the switch area of the forums. Someone says they’re a switch and the response is, “Oh, and how do you switch?” Seems so simple huh. They’re actually gonna talk about it. It’s a given. There is no right, or wrong way. Each different way is okay. They just talk about it. Gotta love it. Top, bottom, Sadist and Masochists: What you said, but I think that any of the above labeled can do any one, or combo of these if they choose, or are told to do so. Now for TPE: I don’t think you’re any less real if you’re not doing this as a 24/7/365 relationship. If you love tying someone up, for whatever reason, you ARE doing Bondage and that’s under the umbrella of BDSM. If you have complete power over someone else, yet that other person enjoys spanking you and you enjoy being spanked, big deal. That just happens to be how the two of you enjoy the kink in your BDSM relationship. One is demanding pain and the other is complying. I also think that many vanilla relationships are based on TPE and they’d vehemently deny being any part of the BDSM community. Personally, I think they’d be right. ~Big
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