Wildfleurs -> RE: why wont you guys dress up for us? (12/18/2006 2:24:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: catfood sorry, but this isn't sitting right with me. "require the submissive to dress in a manner that makes the submissive uncomfortable?" actually, while i ocassionally put a submissive in situations that make her uncomfortable, for the most part i encourage her to feel comfortable, and thus good about herself. training her to respond via certain clothing and my response to it is very effective. however, trying to enforce a feeling of discomfort seems to me to work at cross-purpose to my goals in training and reinforcement, namely to mold her into the shape and form and attitudes that i feel meet my expectations and desires as well as hers. one more..."Seems completely going with the unfairness inherent in a D/s or M/s dynamic" can not disagree with you more. the inherent unfairness? frankly, D/s is about as fair as i can imagine a relationship being. both parties get their needs fulfilled, everyone is happy. if a sub felt things were "unfair," i doubt she'd be around too long... i rarely "dress up," but thanks to the OP, i may go home tonight and break out a suit and a flogger. thanks! I think it all depends on what your vision and belief is about D/s or M/s relationships - I think we just have differing ones. For me at the essense of a dominance and submission relationship someone is making the decisions and steering the ship (so to speak) and specifically in my relationship my owner likes the benevolent dictator model so that much of what happens is guided by what the dominant wants, desires and needs. My desires, needs, and wants are factored in and weighed (in some magical formula that I don't personally necessarily know the gristly details about) and he makes a decision. But because I'm not the one making the decisions or guiding the decisions some decisions he makes have been unfair, but to me a relationship where one person is making all the decisions isn't going to be fair or equal. Its going to be power/control/authority imbalanced. I think there are tons of other structures besides D/s that are far more balanced in those areas, but to me D/s and M/s are not those structures. In terms of the issue of what to wear his decisions are guided by what he personally wants to do and feels comfortable in, and really what he wears to a BDSM party is fairly inconsequential to me so long as he's comfortable and I'd be willing to bet that he feels the same way. On the other hand I know that he likes to see me dressed in certain things (thongs, heels, stockings) and certain colors (he likes me in white for instance) so it makes complete sense to me that I'd wear what he likes even if its uncomfortable or I just don't necessarily feel like wearing it. I don't view the relationship as being guided by what I want or by what I view as being comfortable. C~
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