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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 7:46:35 PM   
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For myself, corporal punishment as a child just taught me how to lie better and that is not the behavior that he wants to reinforce.  He has little interest in corporal punishment and has more effective means of obtaining the behavior that he wants from Alandra and I. 



My own method is to talk it out, find out where are the logjams that are causing problems, and address them together, as a team.

Corporal punishment does nothing to satisfy those ends, in my mind.

It's just retribution, or so it seems to me.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 7:51:50 PM   
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imho punishment is not abuse. Do I think punishment is necessary? Thats a whole other issue.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 7:54:00 PM   
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For myself, corporal punishment as a child just taught me how to lie better and that is not the behavior that he wants to reinforce.  He has little interest in corporal punishment and has more effective means of obtaining the behavior that he wants from Alandra and I. 



My own method is to talk it out, find out where are the logjams that are causing problems, and address them together, as a team.

Corporal punishment does nothing to satisfy those ends, in my mind.

It's just retribution, or so it seems to me.


Some time ago, he and I had a discussion about corporal punishment and our thoughts on what would make it an effective tool in our relationship.  The conclusion that he reached and I agreed with is that if it was used as a means of reconciliation then it would be a tool that may be used.

He will not use coporal punishment as a means to absolve me of my guilt but he may choose to use it if it will reconcile our differences and bring up closer together.  To date, there has not been a need to use this particular tool for he and I.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 7:59:05 PM   
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It's just retribution, or so it seems to me.


well... you using corporal punishement might be nothing than retribution.

but that doesn't equate that it would be a act of retribution for someone else.

But... on to another point.... from what I have seen from your posts on this thread and other posts you have made...

your not really interested in appreciating or understanding the perspective of a person that uses punishment....

I don't use punishment myself... since with my relationships.. it's not a tool that would be as effective as other tools.  But.. that doesn't mean that it is not a tool that can be very effective for others.  In fact, for some.. punishement is the very tool that needs to be used.

But.. like any tool... be it punishment or talk it out........ just because you use the tool doesn't make it effective.   Effective use of a tool is rather important in my thoughts.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:00:34 PM   
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Effective use of a tool is rather important in my thoughts.




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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:03:29 PM   
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Effective use of a tool is rather important in my thoughts.





mmmmmmm yeah ok... I am um rather effective with the use of my tool.... just ask the girls 

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:03:57 PM   
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but if what you said is true, then please feel free to respond to the other half of my post regarding the arguments that were crucial to this particular discussion.

I will gladly exchange words over those.


Rabbit, you gave two examples which I do not find relevant, and expressed opinions which you are entitled to have.

I've invited all to participate in this discussion, and you have done so.

I do not see any committment on my part to comment on every opinion offered.


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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:04:55 PM   
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LOL Mad Rabbit.  Seriously.  I called that "Daddy" abusive and Bob was one of the champion defenders of how its not abuse if its consented to.

Here are just a few gems.  I would also like to point out that he put "abuse" in quotations every time he used it to refer to that situation, as though he didn't believe breaking a bitch's bones for punishment was abusive.

I'm lolling already.

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And if they like the dynamic as it is, despite the fact Props would be declared sane if she chose to pursue that, why should they?

Form over substance? "It's not how you feel its how you look"?

The understanding they have between them is of less value than what others think of them?

Seems to me these questions go to the core of wiitwd and why.

Some seem to think that if the majority of bdsmers say something is "bad", it is bad, while ignoring the fact that a much larger majority of Vanillas say everything about BDSM is "bad".

Double-standards abound: it is not okay for Vanillas to stigmatize BDSM, but it is okay if a group of like-minded kinksters stigmatize a smaller group of kinksters.


If you are going to give credence to the belief that a larger group can correctly judge a smaller group, then you've given credence to all the Vanillas who say BDSM is wrong, that doms and master should be locked up and subs/slaves should be institutionalized for their own protection.

That's why I say this isn't about kink, it's about a group of people who don't like Props and are using this as an issue with which to beat her.

Why else 'believe' everything she says about her relationship with Daddy -except- the part about how right this is for her?


(You think it's right for someone to be abused??  And yet you make this thread criticizing it?)

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Apparently the same people who sent me the BDSM card that says I have to be judgmental and hypercritical of anyone who doesn't do it the way I want them to do it.

It was useful for lighting the woodstove.


(you must have made copies then....)

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Seems to me you want to speak for Prop's "best interests".

That you have to ignore Prop and the state who both agree Daddy is the best guardian for her doesn't seem to bother you a bit.

You telling me a complete stranger who doesn't know the details of the situation knows better than those who are involved intimately?


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You know, Velvet. You might be right.

Maybe I am chasing unicorns.

I happen to believe in Diversity, Individuality. I think its a logical result of a species number 6 billion +.

If Daddy and Prop are standing out there on the fringe of consensual interaction that's their business.

If you hear of them talking about involving innocents in non-consensual ways, you let me know and I'll rally to the charge.

But what they do between them I view as done between husband and wife, and I will -not- mess with that. If either of them want help getting out of it, our society has made it extremely easy for them. That Prop is here tells me she has contact with the outside world. Her mental state is her business. I'm not involved, not going to be involved, let alone involved enough to be able to sort out what is what.

Would I do what you claim has been done to her? No. Diversity and Individuality specifically recognizes what I do others do not, and vice versa. That we are each a blend of many qualities and beliefs, unique.

Does Prop suffer from low self-esteem? I don't believe so. It takes courage to post her thoughts here, and fortitude to read the responses and defend her statements or try to clarify them. Neither courage nor fortitude are in much supply with one who lacks self-esteem, unless the individual has hyper-inflated her ego. And Prop does not show that quality.

So Prop has a healthy dose of self-esteem, she is reasonably intelligent and articulate, and has chosen a way of life that is at the extreme end of "obedience", a valid BDSM kink.



Soo....breaking a bitch's bones isn't abusive but spanking is?
And it's wrong to judge 'extreme' examples of abusive behavior but okay to judge punishment as a whole to be abusive?

Please. Explain. Now.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:08:35 PM   
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Soo....breaking a bitch's bones isn't abusive but spanking is?
And it's wrong to judge 'extreme' examples of abusive behavior but okay to judge punishment as a whole to be abusive?

Please. Explain. Now.



this might be one of those times when

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I do not see any committment on my part to comment on every opinion offered.



but I hope not.....cause it's gonna be entertaining

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:08:40 PM   
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Haven't ya'll figured it out yet? The views on Bob's profile are down; he needs to drum up some more business

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  mmmmmmm yeah ok... I am um rather effective with the use of my tool.... just ask the girls 


Now, I think we should instead discuss KoM's idea of the effectiveness of umm... tools...

/nods



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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:10:03 PM   
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Although I personnally am not much into punishement, my current sub would beg me to punish her if got angry at her so that I can forgive her faster.  She is very perfectionnist on everything, including on how I feel for her.  Punishment is a form of ritual where she can show what she is ready to do to be forgiven, so that I can forgive her and most importantly, she can forgive herself. 

Tell me, Bobkgin, where would the abuse be, in punishing her, or not punishing  her?

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:11:10 PM   
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Now, I think we should instead discuss KoM's idea of the effectiveness of umm... tools...

/nods




becareful now.... you keep up with this behavior... and you gonna be abusively punished with my effective tool 

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:11:20 PM   
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If someone misbehaves, and a correction is necessary it has to be something unpleasant.


Knowing she has disappointed you isn't sufficiently "unpleasant" for her to learn?

I never said it wasnt. But there has to be a correction as well.  Someone cant fix an incorrect behavior if they are not shown the correct one. Angel is a he, and knowing HE has disappointed me, when he is told so, kills him. I doubt thre is anything I could physically do that would be worse then correcting him and telling him that next time I expect him to do better. That implies that this time he didnt do well enough.
It is my responsability to show him what I want, and correct him if he cant get it right. He asked for this training, and I am going to do it correctly. I cant expect him to know how to do something if I have not explained it. I also cant expect a wrong behavior to be corrected if I dont point it out and explain in detail the right one.  Just saying no this was bad doesnt cut it.
The worse punishment Angel ever endures is being made to repeat a task until he gets it right.  Sometimes, it takes more than another try or two. I know he is capable, and I have faith in him, but the sheer humiliation of not being able to do as I ask and then to have me wait until he does get it right corrects most problems. 

Not everyone has the same idea of effective punishment. For some, physical or the threat of works better to ingrain something in their mind.  For some, the emotional hurt is more than enough and for others the emotional is more than they can bear and punishment of any kind tips them over the deep end. We all learn what works best for those we are trying to educate and go with that.

No one who knows me and Angel could call anything we do anywhere near abusive. Disciplinarian, yes. Strict, absolutely. Has he been corrected, several times. But never, ever has the idea of abuse ever been brought into play.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:11:21 PM   
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Look...look...guys....girls...

Its only okay to question the rationale of an activitity when Bobgkin does it because he is THE TEACHER.

When any of us do it, its wrong.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:12:33 PM   
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becareful now.... you keep up with this behavior... and you gonna be abusively punished with my effective tool 

/scratches head in confusion

and the downside is????



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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:12:48 PM   
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but if what you said is true, then please feel free to respond to the other half of my post regarding the arguments that were crucial to this particular discussion.

I will gladly exchange words over those.


Rabbit, you gave two examples which I do not find relevant, and expressed opinions which you are entitled to have.

I've invited all to participate in this discussion, and you have done so.

I do not see any committment on my part to comment on every opinion offered.



I imagine my examples are irrelvant when you have no idea what you are talking about.

I am sure the people who do wont find them so irrelevant.

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:13:42 PM   
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Some time ago, he and I had a discussion about corporal punishment and our thoughts on what would make it an effective tool in our relationship.  The conclusion that he reached and I agreed with is that if it was used as a means of reconciliation then it would be a tool that may be used.

He will not use coporal punishment as a means to absolve me of my guilt but he may choose to use it if it will reconcile our differences and bring up closer together.  To date, there has not been a need to use this particular tool for he and I.

Knight's Kyra


But isn't absolving you of your guilt necessary for there to be reconciliation and the restoration of closeness?

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:15:45 PM   
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becareful now.... you keep up with this behavior... and you gonna be abusively punished with my effective tool 

/scratches head in confusion

and the downside is????




Downside????  who said anything about a downside...... I am trying to use positive reinforcement to encourage a desired behavior



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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:17:16 PM   
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But isn't absolving you of your guilt necessary for there to be reconciliation and the restoration of closeness?


no

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RE: Why is Punishment not seen as Abusive? - 9/27/2007 8:17:52 PM   
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It's just retribution, or so it seems to me.


Bob, if you had read my irrelevant examples, you would have learned that punishment done out of retribution is PUNITIVE punishment and can very well fall into the categories of "abuse"

Corporeal punishment done solely in the context of adjusting behavior and not as retribution to an infracture is CORRECTIVE punishment and can be effective and healthy when utilized correctly.

Once again, in big letters that resemble crayon so you maybe will understand

PUNITIVE
 
NOT


CORRECTIVE



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