Aswad -> RE: your master wants another (5/9/2007 8:21:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Smythe This might be making a fine distinction, however I have to say that anyone can pretty much make anyone do anything with the right combination of conditioning, manipulation and/or pressure. However, accepting another into the household doesn't make anyone poly, nor does a female sleeping with another female make her a lesbian or even bi. It is not making a fine distinction; the distinction is huge, below the surface, and one of the distinctions I tried to make in my post. Although I tried to point out that manipulation and/or pressure aren't ethically valid tactics, and that they aren't likely to give the desired results either. Taking another person into the household doesn't, as you said, make anyone poly. It does, however, not mean you can't make it work. Just that it won't be poly, it'll be more like something in between poly and a collective. Of course, I could be off on the terms here, but I got the impression that poly by itself means that a person is capable of loving more than one person at the same time, while what happens when several poly people get together is that you get a poly household, or what is more formally (and precisely) known as an endogamous group. Adding people who aren't poly will not affect whether the household is poly, it'll just add another person to the household, who may or may not have a relationship with a poly person in the household, who may or may not have a relationship with one or more other people in the household, who may or may not be poly themselves. [:D] Also, a female sleeping with one or more other females doesn't make her lesbian or bi. But enjoying it does. And that, I think was the point of the post in question: that slavegirljoy started out as a heterosexual woman having sex with other women because her Master ordered her to do so, but that she ended up being bisexual from these experiences. I guess a simple question might resolve the matter: would she, if released by her Master, be looking for relationships with either gender, or still looking for a relationship with a male? quote:
There is a difference between acts and states of being. I am talking about acts that are required by another person. Acts that are required by another person don't intrinsically change anything. Just because I indulge my sadism on neph, that doesn't make her a masochist (which she isn't), it just means she's submitting to me. If one is willing to change, however, it is possible for another person to guide one through that change; in this regard, different people need different approaches to succeed. This can result in a different state of being, if there was any latent spark of such a state of being in the person, or it can result in simply being comfortable and happy with something, if it is done right, or it can result in lots of mental health issues, if it's done wrong. The latter being why I suggested enlisting the aid of a professional if one wants something like that to happen. For me, I wouldn't see the effort of changing someone's state of being as being worth the payoff, so I would simply get them to the point where the acts no longer cause mental discomfort, along with changing any behaviours that are relevant to the goal, and then teach them to do a good job of it. Possibly teach them to look like they enjoy it, if I saw any reason to do so.
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