MissBabydoll -> RE: Question About Humiliation (12/26/2006 12:57:57 PM)
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I enjoy sissies and t-gurls as submissives for more reasons than one, I think. To begin with, I've always been attracted to androgynous men, and My first b/f was a crossdresser as well as submissive, which probably imprinted me. I've found that het/bi fem males (not necessarily crossdressed, but it seems to help) more often than not make really good lovers and subs--sensitive, eager to please, emotionally available, sensual. I know other women who share my tastes, and most of them are, like me, bisexual and somewhat androgynous ourselves--even if, like me, they present as fem. As to the hyperfemininity ("frilliness") that many sissies are so into, yes, they are a sort of caricature of femininity in one way. But it seems to Me that they adore the Feminine so much that they need to assume it. They simultaneously worship Women as powerful *and* want to be as feminine as they can--so the femininity they take on is its most submissive form. Signifiers of Female Erotic Power (as Elise Sutton calls it) such as high heels or corsets are inverted in their meaning when worn by males, becoming instead signifiers of submission to that Power. I can be turned on by hyperfeminine sissy males--I have a couple of really gorgeous ones, actually--without needing them to be totally passable as female. To me, they just look hot as what they are. The older, less passable ones I am not so turned on by as a rule, but I am not repelled by them either, because I'm not judging them as wannabe women but as what they are, fem males. There's a deeper question here, which is whether humiliation in *any* form is really humiliation if the sub wants it. I think it is, because the emotional pain is part of breaking down the false egoic self and as such has its own difficult pleasure. The path to this fulfillment is through eroticized shame, usually developed as a defense mechanism in preadolescence or adolescence. The trick is to push on this defense until it breaks. If a male is humiliated by dressing but also aroused by it, this simply means he has eroticized shame around being unable to be insufficiently masculine by trying to become feminine instead. Given what masculinity has done to the world over the last three millennia of patriarchy, I'll take a fem male any day, thanks! And I'll help and support him on his path.
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