MadRabbit -> RE: Teenish Masters (12/22/2006 4:11:31 PM)
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Wow...interesting thread. Well, finnally at least there is a topic I feal 100% in posting about! I'll let the *grown ups* (coughs) continue their discussion while I try and answer the question posed. I am 23 year olds and a dominant. I currently have a submissive and am active in the local BDSM communities. I dont consider or disillusion to myself into thinking I am experienced, but I consider myself to be very well educated. I do not call myself Master Rabbit or Sir Rabbit or anything like that. Now personally, I dont measure dominance in age, but rather in maturity. Dominance begins at the heart, a desire to own someone, to be in control. There is no age requirement to have these desires, but BEING a dominant isnt that simple Because of that, I happen to have contempt for most of the dominants I meet my age who clearly lack the character, maturity, self control, and structure to be a dominant figure in someone's life. I sadly have to say I have met none that I trully relate with who understand there is more to being a dominant or a Master than having someone around to say "Suck it bitch!" to. Now I am different because I have been on my own since roughly the age of 16 and have quite a few life experiences (a few too many), but even though I consider myself to be a mature adult, I dont dillusion myself into thinking that I am at a point in my life where I can have a slave and have complete control over someone else's life. I have schooling to finish, a steady career to build, and a completely stabled and structured life to put together first. My girl and I have a D/S relationship not an M/S relationship. I judge every dominant I meet by their character, maturity and knowledge and hold them to the same high standards I try to hold myself to. So all these young guys online calling themselves "Master Sadism" or whatever are no different to me then all these old guys calling themselves "Grand Master Rick" when they have no merit. I have no time for anyone who wishes to condescend to me, look down at me, or expects me to lick and clean their boots because they are more "experienced" than I am. I know what I can do, I admit what I cannot do, I admit my noviceness, and am going to take zero shit about it. My mentors are all extermely high quality and knowledgable people who treat me as an equal and respect me because of this. Experience comes with time and trying. I may be a novice, but I have yet to injure or harm my girl in any one of our scenes. Why? Because I took the time to read, talk to people, practice, and educate myself. Now on the subject of calling yourself Master, I think there is two definitions. One is you are the Master of a slave. For this, there is no age requirement. If you have someone who wishes to give up that much power to you and consentually make you their Master, then you are a Master....TO THEM. Dont expect me to call you Master. The other is a master of a particular toy. Realistically, the odds of a person my age mastering a whip or something of the sort is slim to none. Personally, I look at Master as not a title, but an ideal. Something you strive to become. Its a persona, a mindset, something you grow, change, and transform into. Then finnally, these is a third definition which is what you see mostly on the Internet. The slap-your-own-ass, self proclaimed disillusion of self importance. Anyone can hop on online and give themselves a Master title! There is no age requirment for that. And in my experiences, the majority of the people online with that self proclaimed title have absolutely zero "Master" persona and that incluides people who are 19 and people who are 44. In conclusion, the BDSM community (and the world) would be a whole lot better off if they stop looking at age and start looking at what really makes a dominant a dominant and a Master a Master....character, maturity, and expertise. Relative expertise at least. I dont consider myself an expert flogger, but I have taken time to have my mentor teach me the strokes, show me where to hit and not to hit, study anatomy so I know the consequences of inaccuracy, and practice on a pilllow. My age had nothing to do with any of that. Oh, and while my experience has been called into question many times, my dominance has not.
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