Morrigel
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I've met an awful lot of very young, very kinky people in the last few years. I think the fact that they have access to the Internet is accelerating their sexual development in many, many ways. A lot of us older people had to become kinky by a much slower process, which took years of meeting with and playing with various people in the real world who would have various quirky personal inclinations; on the Internet you can get exposed to a metric ton of information and converse with hundreds of kinky people in just a year. *shrug* I don't think the old way is "better" per se, but I have seen some signs lately that a lot of young people seem to think that they "know" things--like how the real public BDSM community operates, or how relationship dynamics work between "slaves" and "masters"--that are ridiculously off-base. I spoke to a very cute young couple, for example, who said they defined themselves as "switch" because neither one of them wants to be "a slave without a voice", and who said they didn't want to go to any public events because they "didn't want to have to kiss people on the cheek or show bureaucratic respect" to people. My reaction, after having met many slaves who were anything but mute, and after having been to the local fetish dance party in this city and the nearest public play club in Nashville, was "What in the WORLD are you talking about?" Quite honestly, I'm envious that youngsters get a chance to explore just about every possible aspect of BDSM "on paper" these days, and figure out what turns them on and what their fantasies are long before they are confronted with a real lover...but I sometimes think there is a bit of a hurdle involved in getting themselves integrated with real people or the real BDSM community. --M
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