Not everyone has Dom or sub inclinations.
Not everyone has Dom or sub inclinations. I think the majority of people are not interested in a relationship characterized by an exchange of power.
I know people of both genders who play with people who aren't their partners just for the sake of it. I'm not into recreational sex, bondage or punishment for its own sake. I do enjoy being in a scene when my husband/Master commands me to. I like it that he derives pleasure from watching me being punished and/or pleasured.
I've written from a variety of points of view. I find female characters much more complex and interesting than males. No offense intended to males! Perhaps knowing more about the female mind and response patterns makes it easier for me to develop female characters.
I just submitted a story written from the male sub POV called "Service With a Smile." It's about a man who's wife/Mistress forces him to provide stud service after devising a way to minimize his pleasure!
Two cents from the chihuahua-- for whatever that's worth
On the issue of the reality of rape, and rape fantasies...
I've had longterm realtionships with only twelve lovers in my life. I started mapping them out, because there are two relationships where a rape greatly effected our relationship and my own sexual identity.
After typing each relationship out and considering them each for thirty minutes,
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I can't see any reason to post them. They probably don't have relevance to anyone but me, and it seems a little crass to mention them. I was trying to define the trend in my relationships-- the women, their sexual histories, and their fantasies and sexual interests.
There is no trend... Their fantasies have bearing on their experiences, but never really in the same way. My fascination with BDSM/NC/rape has a defined point of origin in one relationship. And with the subsequent year I spent in Gainesville, Florida, during the Rolllings murders.
I think the point I wanted to make in this huge post (whittled down to the essentials now, I hope) is that the majority of the women I've had as lovers were raped at some point. A few of them were locked in cycles of having sex with men who reminded them of their attackers, and replaying the event again and again. Most just moved on and didn't let it change what they wanted in a lover.
I am both attracted and repulsed to ideas of nonconsensual sex and rape. In my fantasies, it's a reality, but not a first person experience-- voyeuristic perspective on villains I manufacture. I don't think I'm capable of getting off on a sexual fantasy of a rape where I'm the villain. In reality, real life kidnappings, abductions, rapes, etc. make me mad as hell-- livid, fists clenched, teeth bare; and it would bother me to no end to learn that something I wrote gave someone an idea about how to take the fantasy into reality.
subbie discussion...aaahhhhh....finally!
i am a submissive, slave and soulmate to my Master, Paul. i am so happy to see there are others out there. one thing i want to comment on, because it is such a *true* pharse is "power exchange". Master and i are well aware of the importance of the balance of power between Dom and sub in the Lifestyle. if O/one doesn't realize how it works, the term can be misunderstood. everything i have, everything i am....is His. i willingly give up all for Him, giving Him the "power". however, He takes on all responsiblity for my well being. as i am His property, He is my protector. S/some disagree with my choice of word "property" but, i am just that, i am His....and my soul glows in His presence. do W/we fight? *nods*...uh huh...definately! *giggles* but at days end, i know my place.....its right where i began, right where i'll end, right where i want to be....*smiles*
Master's slave and soulmate,