marieToo
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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble I can't find the thread which started this thread. Perhaps it's been moved (or deleted) or it could be I'm just having a dumb day, but this is for Mons. I'm not angry at 'you' Mons .. I am attacking your view of one particular S/M practice. There is a difference. I do think you're entitled to that view and my questions were specific to you and that view. How you arrived at it, why you think it, things along those lines. I'm asking you to support your view, that's it. You put it out there, this is a discussion forum, so, in my mind, that's what's supposed to happen. Someone says something they should be willing to defend it. Just to clarify, I am not an 18 year old woman, I'm 46 and I've been actively involved in S/M since 1982. I have a lot of experience on both sides of the fence with clit torture including irritant play. I understand there is risk involved in much of what we do including that form of play and I choose to take those risks for the benefits which I gain from them. The people with whom I interact on an S/M level are all adults and they also choose to take those risks. You are entitled to your opinion. I do not begrudge you your view. I only asked you to defend it with logical reasoning as to why you feel the way you do. You came up with a single, unsupported opinion which is not a fact as to why. (That in time one will lose their feeling.) Are you sure about that? How much time? How often does one have to indulge in this play before they lose their feeling? Does it happen the first time? The 10th time? The 1000th time? How do you know? What do you base it on? Instead of telling me what you feel about it, convince me with facts that I shouldn't be doing it. Use logic and reason on me. It works. Despite what you may think, I'm not the one who is emotional about this issue, Mons. I sit here ready to be convinced. I have an open mind and it is open to your viewpoint. I want to be clear that even with logic and sound reasoning, I may 'still' choose to indulge, so the best I can offer is a chance for you to change my mind. No more than that. It's all good Mons. I think you are a nice lady. Perhaps too nice and that's why this bothers you. Your compassion is deciding for you instead of your logic. I'm going to give an example of something that I think is sick and wrong. Engaging in BDSM with anyone or anything who does not or cannot consent as a human adult. I'll defend that statement till the day I die so it's not that I think that 'everything' is OK. There are things which ARE sick, but, generally speaking, when we are talking about reasonable adults consenting to do nasty things to one another, when those things don't harm someone else or engage them without their knowledge.. most of those are going to be OK whether I personally indulge in them or not. Celeste Sometimes a feeling cannot be squared away with logic. To me, what I do myself is sick. Why do I feel this way? Who knows. societal conditioning? Uprbringing? It just feels twisted and abnormal to me. Do I still engage in it? Yes, because I like it, but I still think it's "sick" or "perverted" or "twisted" or "deviant". I cant speak for Mons or your exchange with her and thats not what Im attempting to do, but consent or not we all have feelings on what we think qualifies as 'sick' even in a 'lifestyle' (I hate that word, but a better one eludes me at the moment) where we are more accepting than the average people. I think its sick to want to eat shit. Some people think its sick to slaughter animals for food and leather jackets. Others think its sick to stick needles through your breasts. Health risk reasons? Pyschological damage reasons? Whats the difference "why" the person thinks something is sick. One person will agree and another wont.
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marie. I give good agita.
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