littlesarbonn
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Joined: 12/3/2005 From: Stockton, California Status: offline
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Recently, a very polite woman indicated to me that my profile appeared too vanilla. This got me to thinking (which can be argued is never a good thing), but is it possible that my attempts to be revealing have in fact done the opposite? Let me explain. When I first started redesigning my profile some time ago, I was responding to a lot of the complaints that dominant women have about how the men that contact them all seem to be pushing agendas of what they want rather than what She wants. If that's not the case, their profiles are too small, indicating they don't want to share any information, and they're generally evasive when giving real information. In essence, there's really not a lot revealing who they are, what they want beyond a hookup and what they can offer to the person they are seeking. Now, for those who know me on the boards, I've been pretty upfront about the fact that I rarely, if ever, contact a woman on the boards about a potential relationship. This was a decision I made after reading one post after another, one profile after another, about how the dominant women on this board are so overwhelmed by wannabe subs that I vowed never to be one of the ones cluttering up their boxes. Instead, I figured that if a dominant woman was seeking me, she'd probably be contacting me instead of me contacting her. Sure, I realized this cut me out of 99 percent of the chances that most men would pursue because there's this really bizarre real world phenomenon where dominant women purport to be the ones in charge of relationships yet for socialization reasons still seem to believe that they need to rely on old world stereotypes of waiting for a man to contact them first. But I figured that for the ones that buck this trend, which is probably the kind of woman I'm seeking in the first place, this would not be a problem. So, in designing my profile, I went through the work of trying to drop any of the "this is what I want a woman to do to me" kind of attitude. And this wasn't a disguise but was an honest reflection of the fact that I truly am a service submissive who gains a LOT of pleasure from being the one to make the dominant partner in the relationship as content and satisfied as possible. Now, for most guys that say this sort of thing, they're saying "I wanna do you, cause I know that satisfies you." Unfortunately, that's a stereotype I have to constantly work against because so many guys who use the word "service" refer to some type of sexual contact rather than actual service itself. So, when I put together this type of profile, I made great effort to indicate that when I mean service, I mean SERVICE. And this has caused me to rethink my strategy completely. You see, when I say that I am a service submissive, and I put forth all of the information to back that up in my profile, I think I somehow gave the impression that I'm not interested in either bdsm or sex, when that's really not the case. I believe there's this female fantasy that finding a service submissive is possible in that the guy will ONLY want to do chores and go home, never having any other interaction with the woman whatsoever. I even ran into this when I was actively part of the bdsm community. Women who knew OF me, but didn't really KNOW me would contact me through mutual friends, indicating that they thought we would be perfect together. Then we'd arrange a meeting, and it would go something like this: "I think you're perfect for me because I'm looking for a service-oriented slave." (I perk up. This sounds good.) "I have a few really dedicated play partners, so I don't really need someone for any type of bondage or discipline." (This starts to look less good.) "And as I have a significant other, we're probably not going to be very sexually close to each other because that need is already fulfilled in my life." (This starts to look REALLY bad.) "In order to make you fit directly into my life to be less of a burden on me, I'm going to have you be supervised by my male secretary, so we'll probably not ever see each other, but you'll be able to do all my cleaning and housework on a regular basis." (Believe it or not, twice women have been serious about everything INCLUDING this last one. This is where I usually run and decide to build another World of Warcraft elf to 60th level. As I told a femsub friend of mine some time ago, if this was the kind of interaction I was seeking, I'd learn to become a butler or male maid and get paid for it. So this leaves me wondering if by trying to be as non-sexually seeking as possible, as non-bdsm laundry list listing as necessary, if I've completely given the wrong impression with my profile and derailed any attempt I'll ever have of actually finding someone of like mind. I mean, I got into this whole service-oriented lifestyle because I was first involved in the whole bdsm culture. I just found that doing the whole play partner thing wasn't my thing. I was never really good at one time circumstances that never grew into anything further. At the same time, I've been offered everything from weekend relationships to live-in possibilities that tend to be "I want you as my slave, but I really don't want to be all that involved with you." I suspect that this is something that's an artifact of my own design, and for all I know, my profile may have a lot to do with this. Any thoughts?
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