knkywch
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Hmm, I think "forced" in this context might deal more with an internal conflict for the bottom rather than an overt physical force. Force to me has many aspects and components. Force doesn't necessarily require overt resistance, but resistance can be fun (whether that is a physical struggle or protestations or hesitancy and discomfort or...). I am aware of different manifestations of "force". For instance, there is brute force and compelling, coersive, perhaps fear-based (mostly verbal/mental) force. Then, there is force of suggestion (hypnosis or verbal manipulation) and force of seduction... of my favorites. So, when you "force" a bottom to deal with sodomization, what kind of force are you using? Physical? Verbal? Combination? Is your bottom struggling the whole time and you must have assistance to hold him/her down? Or is it force by choice... sort of "if you don't do 'X', then you will have to leave and I won't play with you anymore"? I like to play at being forced. It's scary and exciting... and I want to do it again... and I don't. It's still scary and exciting... but interestingly, that's a draw for me. There is something about the Other really WANTING me to experience something that might be painful or scary or humiliating for me, but ALSO connected with pleasure -- sexual or pleasure of serving or both. For me, there is a difference in being forced to do something that is clearly outside of my boundaries (for instance, scat play) and being forced to somehow "screw up" so that I'd be punished by standing naked or somehow exposed in a corner. In the first scenario, I would fight and get pissed off and call a safe word if someone tried to force me to eat shit while I was in bondage for instance. There would be no arousal for me, only disgust and anger because I know what is in fecal matter... I wouldn't care if it pleasured the Other and I would NOT want to repeat the incident. In the second scenario, I would resist messing up to avoid punishment, but on some level feel pleasure and excitement knowing that my top was enjoying the whole rock-and-a-hard-place routine and setting me up for punishment. It'd be a mix for me of embarrassment, shame, and arousal and pleasure. I'd want to do everything I could to get out of the catch-22 though. AND, interestingly, I might try to screw up at another time to get what I can only describe as mixed attention -- it is squirmy and scares me and STILL gets me worked up. Both scenarios involve "force" and one is clearly abusive while the other is in the realm of BDSM. As a top, I wouldn't want to "force" my bottom to do anything s/he completely objects to. I am looking for that pain/pleasure, discomfort/arousal mix where force doesn't become abusive but adds to the internal conflict and confusion of "don't want/want" so that all parties come out of the experience hot and bothered, excited, and wanting more the next time. Another couple of things come to mind along this vein... I remember being a little kid and engaging in "chase and capture" or "scare and chase" games with other kids and adults. Oh my goodness, the adrenaline rush of fear... and excitement! In fact, I play this with little kids now. I notice that when I stop... they pester me to "do it again"! They WANT to be scared and chased... and maybe caught and tickled or hugged or... somehow consensually, safely (and in this case, nonsexually) touched. And what about scary movies and haunted houses? Sometimes, folks "force" me to go. But I KNOW I'll get scared when the fake Texas Chainsaw Massacre scene starts up and the guy with the fake chainsaw comes roaring out of some side door... I propose that within the BDSM context, "force" must be about a mixture of "no" and "yes" and that the "yes" part can be pretty compelling (compelling enough for that bottom to show up with a massive smile and bigger dildo) but that if it is "forced" then there is still a frightened, squirmy, embarrassed, or uncomfortable "no" that provides either overt or internal resistance. Hope this helps. Peace, kw
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