llama12:
...humans evolved to have the male be dominant and that men who SEEM submissive have simply not yet DEVELOPED that part of themselves, and so they are incomplete, and women may sense the need for a dominant personality in a relationship and may try to fil that roll...
~psychoblast~
Hey bluelighters I lurk all psy forums so I''m not new but I registered just because I had to answer to this wrong in so many levels post.
I wrote a huge response to it but then something happened and it got deleted and I can't write it again so maybe that's the karma so I'll keep it short.
I used to be very ...reserved... about any responsibility about life, and I loved for all pressure to be off me when I first started my sex life, so you may say I really liked being submissive when I was a young boy. My sex life started at 17 and I was definately a sub all my teenage years, I was a dom rarely until 20. And then I decided that too many chix are subb and too few guys are dom. So I went to the other side. I loved to tie up chix and look at them helpless to resist the pleasure. I loved the marvelous ways our subconscious mind reverse engineers the imprinted post-christianity guilt about sexual pleasure through all kinds of creative BDSM metaphors. Sooooo. since I can switch I decided to "DEVELOP", as you so capslockedly say, myyyy....,what at the time I belived to be nature inherited, dominance as a man. It's fun, man, but it's not what you say it is and your generalizations are kind of sexist and insulting. I was stupid and conformist, believed in this alpha male bullshit, on a sosubconscious way. maybe I watched too much disney as a kid idk.
But focusing on reality...
I've been around, I know the scene, I never was in the BDSM subculture scene directly since those guys are too hardcore, but I know shit. I don't want to sound like a grandpa, but I sometimes the best way to say it is like this. Just to say you've been places. Only with gfs and fuck buddies, never got as deep as the private basement gangbang clubs tho I dated an ex-clubber once. a long way. From light fluffy handcuff bondage to nametag piercings and molding ur own slavegirl etc.
This long overture is some kind of way to tell you that I'm not pulling what I want to say out of my ass, and that it's really based on experience truth-seeking and clear-mindedness and enough mescaline for an abstract view as well.
here it is:
"simply not yet DEVELOPED that part"
is a nice way to obfuscuate:
"power corrupts"
Bondage and power play is... metaphorical capitalism. It's safety. Invulnerability. Powerless to resist pleasure. Or having power over somebody and their pleasure. Freedom from self-consciousness. escape from responsibility. from critcism and expectations.
It's the west. Babylon. Post-christian side-effects of taboo sexuality.
Tantra, something that can teach you real sex, is sex between equals. sexual equals. D/S can emerge, but it's a momental archetype.
I hope you don't get me wrong. I don't hate on BDSM, its fun, necessary for me at this point.
I just have a problem with you labeling bondage as a panacea and some universal truth about the nature of mankind. Real uninhibited humans in sex are both selfishly aggressive, there is no sub so there is no need for a dom...
Some people wake up and realize that they've been extrapolating real issues with their emotional self-sufficiency in their fetishism, and it takes a while for you to realize that you are not happy, I hope it doesn't hit you in the head too late or also I hope maybe BDSM really fixed your relationship concerns instead of masking them but I wish you the best nonetheless.
just my 2c
EDIT: post-processing