Najakcharmer -> RE: Domme/male sub.. more extreme lifestyle? (4/10/2007 5:41:18 PM)
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My personal observation, which is borne out by accounts and statistics collected by sociologists, is that more males than females will express "extreme" fantasies and desires on both ends of the spectrum, though submissives/bottoms outnumber dominants/tops in both sexes.. True fetishism is significantly more common in males than in females. As to what actually happens with lifestyle couples, my personal experience and observation is that long term healthy D/s relationships may well involve "extreme" play (or play that some people would regard as "extreme"), but are fundamentally based in a dynamic of mutual caring and respect. I have friends in all aspects of the lifestyle (gay, bi, trans, poly, male dom, female dom, switchy, etc). Some of them are heavier players than others, and may be into things like branding, cutting, piercing, etc. I'm not a bottom or a sub, but I am planning to borrow a femdom friend's expertise to get a nice decorative cutting and/or branding on my arm that will be of personal and spiritual significance. I've also done my share of carving on other people, play piercing, singletail whipping, caning and other "bloodsports". Is this extreme play? I don't know. It might be defined that way by some people. But to the set I hang out with, it's just what we do for fun. And sometimes for transformation, healing, personal growth and spiritual rites of passage. It's definitely not done with any kind of negative energy or intent. It is always done with great care for health and safety. I'd say that most of us in the "heavy player" set would consider it a spiritual or shamanic experience to some extent, on both ends, and very much a positive and joyful one. I would not say that femdoms and male subs are represented more than any other group in the "heavy player" set. It's been a pretty wide distribution in my experience.
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