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stella41b -> RE: S&M is now PC?? (8/28/2008 3:42:26 PM)
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Oh I think it has come a long way in the last 500 years or so. There was no SSC back then, only RACK.
Let's take toys and equipment for example. How many of you dominants have a crossbow in your toybox? How about a rack? Bow and arrows? A cannon? Do any of you Daddy Doms out there have a ducking stool and take your female submissive or slave down to the pond?
BDSM was actually universally acceptable back then. Indeed every town had stocks where you could try out your submissives and the town's people would help you by pelting them with rotten food and giving them verbal abuse. Female submissives were taken to the pond and ducked for public displays of breath play, branding was popular, as was torture, bondage, whippings, floggings, beatings and pony play - but back then they used real ponies.
There was the iron community, and these were really hard men who would dress up in their iron clothing and attend 'jousts' and tourmaments and whack each other with 50ft buttplugs. They were hardened sadists who thought nothing of riding horses at each other to deliver maximum pain. Because Collarme and these message boards didn't exist in those days these men would come together in huge groups for very long, heavy BDSM sessions involving their most gruesome toys and fight it out. Some people got killed, and this seemed part and parcel of BDSM in those days - the risks were real.
There were munches and events, just like today and usually these events were held in forts and castles and were preceded by play, especially from members of the iron community. They weren't the softies like you get today with their needle play. No, these people used real bows and arrows and when they got impaled they would immediately go into subspace and fall down. There would be crossbows used, catapults and slingshots. When everyone was tired from playing, or dead, whatever the case may be, the tradition was for the visiting kinksters to trudge off into a forest to find the biggest tree trunk to batter down the entrance to the fort.
There were the Tudors, Plantagenets and Elizabethans who were actually royalty but who believed that being born makes you dominant. Henry VIII was one of the crappest male doms in history. It took him several female submissives to understand the meaning of safewords and that beheading tended to end the relationship. One of the better known dommes was of course Elizabeth I, who was red-haired, into corsets, verbal humiliation, and who owned her faithful male submissive Sir Walter Raleigh. He was perhaps one of the most devoted male submissives. I mean, how many male submissives today are prepared to go off and sail for weeks to discover another country with a buttplug shoved up their butt in chastity just to bring back their domme tobacco and a sack of potatoes?
Whichever way you look at it, you must admit that we have come a long way since then.
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