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ORIGINAL: TypeAsub1

Interesting - in another place someone made a military reference which I found interesting.  You might also enjoy it.  It's from Gen. John A LeJeune, the spiritual father of the modern Marine Officer Corps:


The relationship of a senior to a junior is not that of a master to a slave or an owner to a servant, but rather that of a teacher to a scholar or a father to a son, in the that the senior is resposible for the physical, mental and moral well-being and education of the junior 

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ORIGINAL: akbarbarian
It's hard ground to break in any case.  His observation about the reason a new sub would resist might not be apt for all situations, but I bet it's a common reason just the same.  I know a gay male bottom, who has a sugar daddy in WA.  They have a discrete relationship since he's in politics and feels that being out would threaten his career.  Being out about a non traditional sexuality can do that.  As for submissives being seen as weak and easy, perhaps looking to military protcol would help.  Be an obedient hardass, and only obedient to your "superior officer".