DominaSmartass
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Joined: 1/12/2006 From: This month? Maryland Status: offline
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I know it's long, but hear me out, if you're interested. My boyfriend calls himself a masochist and he has the experience in some heavy and edgy play to back him up...at least to the point that he can endure a lot of pain, even if he doesn't like it. I consider myself a sadist and I do get a real charge out of hurting people (in the context of a scene) but what really gets me going is seeing the other person's reactions. That is, if I am flogging someone and he does not move, change the way he's breathing, make a noise, etc., it does absolutely nothing for me. I know many tops are the same way. My favorite people to play with are the ones who can really relax into the play and go deep into subspace to where the line between what feels orgasmic and what hurts like hell is really blurry. I've played with several wonderful examples of boys like this in the past, so maybe I'm spoiled. On the other hand, my boyfriend, the huge masochist, says he's never experienced sub space and doesn't ever feel the leaving of his physical body that so many people do. On the contrary, the person with whom he went from a novice to an experienced bottom/sub with told him that she does not believe in subspace because if she's putting so much work into hurting the bottom she wants them to be there with her, not on vacation, enjoying it. Thus she constantly keeps the sub guessing by doing new, annoying, painful, and intrusive things to him physically so that he will not be able to just fly away on endorphins. So through a combination of conditioning and his own nature, he has learned to endure extreme pain, yet never felt that blissful feeling that is what I enjoy most seeing in others when playing. This creates a conflict...a very frustrating situation for me. We finally had a big communication session about this and that's how I learned some of these details. So this is what I find out: He "enjoys" pain play because he wants to do what makes me happy. Me enjoying myself is the number one goal for him in a scene. So no matter how much he hates what I'm doing, he just endures it because the pleasure for him comes at the end knowing he's made me happy. This is all great, hypothetically, but the problem is that I don't even enjoy the scene in the slightest if I am going at it and he's completely still and noiseless - which he normally is - because he is focused on pain-processeing as he says. Granted, we haven't played all that much, we've spent the majority of our time together doing things other than elaborate, heavy scenes. And I've posted questions about my play issues in the past (see the "in the mood" thread.) Well, most recently, it seems that we are both in the mood but when it gets right down to it, the way we each have learned to play in the past don't exactly mesh. Again, I'm not asking for specific advice here as much as hoping to start a discussion. If you consider yourself a sadist or a masochist, what really gets you going? What aspect of it do you derive your pleasure from most? Does being in sub-space defeat the purpose of experiencing pain? As for us, my plan is to try to use playtime differently, to focus on true pain play less often and work on some sensual stuff that I already know puts him in something equivalent to subspace even if he doesn't call it that, to get him to relax about the whole thing. I think it's very much a conditioned response in him and once he realizes that he *can* experience subspace he might be able to achieve it through pain/impact play as well.
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