Aswad
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ORIGINAL: darkinshadows Knowing twice and Scooter via the boards, I have always gained the impression that they work on their relationship very hard, and all options are worth looking into - even if that means them mentioning this to their doctor or clinical psych. Definitely, if she has a problem that doesn't go away, I'd talk to a psychiatrist, preferrably a KAP. I was just correcting some errors in your explanation, in case she was one of the people who would take it as-is, without discussing it with her doc; I don't know her, so I figured caution would be best. Note also that I, being new to the board and not knowing twice and Scooter, was just commenting more generally that it needs to be dealt with, that if he'd gotten the message but ignored it that would be bad, and that the chemistry involved is only relevant on her side (where it can be dealt with if this is a big problem). I see from the later posts that things haven't been properly explained to him, which changes the picture dramatically and kind of defuses the issue. quote:
How Scooter may or may not act isn't for us to actually know or say he shouldn't, we simply surmise and offer options to think about. True. Just responding to the thread. And I wasn't trying to say he couldn't do this, just that there are consequences to doing so, which Jewel will now apparently help explain to him. quote:
I know that it is automatic to jump on peoples backs when people see that dominants may not be treating submissives 'according to the law' Yeah, I know. And I'm sorry if I came across as doing that. It's my kink too. NB.: In various jurisdictions, the law does not acknowledge consent, partly because some rights are considered "inalienable", which is the same as saying those rights are arbitrarily limited by some ethics comittee. Personally, I'm in Norway, where you can give prior consent to a session, and the worst they can charge you with in a D/s relationship with a signed and witnessed contract is usually negligence. I'm working on assembling a network of KAPs (psychs and lawyers) to work out a contract that will, hopefully, resolve the legal issue, and getting a couple to test it in court. quote:
however, as far as I have ever read, their relationship has always been strong and constructive so I am looking from a different viewpoint, of not judging purely on the good vs. bad - but on what may be behind such behaviour from a medical as well as a mental POV. I'm glad to hear that. And I don't go for the whole "good vs bad" thing. The medical POV was off, though, IMO. quote:
And the whole quote thing sucks sometimes... but then in others it is a good thing! Yeah, I screwed up the end-quotes, and then I got logged out somehow, so I couldn't edit my post to fix it. I have a tendency to mess up the quotes when people use odd fonts or colors or such, because I end up copy-pasting the quote tag in regular fonts (since I hate writing in all-italics, odd colors, etc.) and sometimes forgetting to change some of the tags to end-quotes. That, and I have a tendency to write /quite when I mean /quote. I don't know why, it started after I for some reason used that word a lot on a Gorean forum thread.
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