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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily
So here I am, with all the humility I can possibly muster, asking the Doms and Dommes, the Masters and the Mistresses to please let us all know, if Submission is a Gift, what is Dominance?

Kassie

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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily

So here I am, with all the humility I can possibly muster, asking the Doms and Dommes, the Masters and the Mistresses to please let us all know, if Submission is a Gift, what is Dominance?

Kassie

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Sub, Dom, top bottom etc etc.
These are roles, not "gifts".

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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily

I've been doing WIIWD for a long time now. I was around pre-internet explosion, when it was much harder to find the organizations and other people into what we are into.

Thanks to Lord Colm and jade, we were all alerted that 'submission is a gift."

Ok, well, if submission *is* a gift, then what is Dominance? Seriously, while my 'sisters in submission' and I roll our eyes and laugh our preverbial assess off and compare notes about our 'gifts' it occured to me that Dominance doesn't have something so wholly assinine associated with it.

So here I am, with all the humility I can possibly muster, asking the Doms and Dommes, the Masters and the Mistresses to please let us all know, if Submission is a Gift, what is Dominance?

Kassie

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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily

I've been doing WIIWD for a long time now. I was around pre-internet explosion, when it was much harder to find the organizations and other people into what we are into.

Thanks to Lord Colm and jade, we were all alerted that 'submission is a gift."

Ok, well, if submission *is* a gift, then what is Dominance? Seriously, while my 'sisters in submission' and I roll our eyes and laugh our preverbial assess off and compare notes about our 'gifts' it occured to me that Dominance doesn't have something so wholly assinine associated with it.

So here I am, with all the humility I can possibly muster, asking the Doms and Dommes, the Masters and the Mistresses to please let us all know, if Submission is a Gift, what is Dominance?

Kassie

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ORIGINAL: michaelGA

is there a gift card submissives can give Dominants to use however they want?

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ORIGINAL: MHOO314

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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily

So here I am, with all the humility I can possibly muster, asking the Doms and Dommes, the Masters and the Mistresses to please let us all know, if Submission is a Gift, what is Dominance?

Kassie

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Sub, Dom, top bottom etc etc.
These are roles, not "gifts".

I believe the question addressed not the adjective but the noun--(if I understand it correctly)

Dominance is a musician, submission is the instrument--without the two together, there is no music---for a musician can think of notes, tunes, melodies but there is no magic, no passion, no life until it is brought to an instrument.

Submission is the instrument, standing at the ready, finely tuned waiting--there is no music until One begins to play.

There are bad players, sour notes, broken instruments and bad music--but when the right musician comes together with the right instrument, the dance of the dynamic begins.

My boys submission is a gift--to Me--because he chose to lay it at My feet and no one else--because he chose to open himself, he chose freely and willingly--and at anytime he can choose to remove that gift from Me because I have not cared for it.

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ORIGINAL: MHOO314

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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily

So here I am, with all the humility I can possibly muster, asking the Doms and Dommes, the Masters and the Mistresses to please let us all know, if Submission is a Gift, what is Dominance?

Kassie

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Sub, Dom, top bottom etc etc.
These are roles, not "gifts".

I believe the question addressed not the adjective but the noun--(if I understand it correctly)

Dominance is a musician, submission is the instrument--without the two together, there is no music---for a musician can think of notes, tunes, melodies but there is no magic, no passion, no life until it is brought to an instrument.

Submission is the instrument, standing at the ready, finely tuned waiting--there is no music until One begins to play.

There are bad players, sour notes, broken instruments and bad music--but when the right musician comes together with the right instrument, the dance of the dynamic begins.

My boys submission is a gift--to Me--because he chose to lay it at My feet and no one else--because he chose to open himself, he chose freely and willingly--and at anytime he can choose to remove that gift from Me because I have not cared for it.

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If submission is a gift, then Dominance is plainly God's gift to women.

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ORIGINAL: MsSonnetMarwood

I've always felt that if submission is a gift - it's only a gift to oneself, to accept this part of themselves, deal with it in a constructive manner, and be at peace with it.

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ORIGINAL: sophia37

Sub, Dom, top bottom etc etc.
These are roles, not "gifts".

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ORIGINAL: Lashra

Alot of things are *romantized or sugar coated* so that it has greater marketing appeal, particulary with females. What better way to promote boring domestic chores then to make it look like a beautiful scene from some movie? She stands there in her black PVC french maids outfit with the lacey apron and 7 inch stiletto heeled shoes on as she is doing the dishes when the *One* walks in. He see's her , smiles at his obedient and wonderful *lil one*. He walks up behind her, kisses her on the back of the neck and then pushes her over the sink and begins to smack her bare ass until she squeals like a monkey.
REALITY- She's hot, sweaty up to her elbows in dirty dishes and she's wearing sweatpants, a tshirt and tennis shoes. She's worked all day and housework, contrary to popular belief, is neither fun nor easy, she's run a bunch of errands and has waited on his ass all morning. Her head hurts, she's tired and she really wishes that sometimes he'd get off his lazy ass and help do something around the house when he walks in. He's grumpy because he had a bad day at work and traffic was just a bitch. He walks up behind her looks at her and then at the dishes she's doing. "Why isn't my dinner on the table? Its 6 o'clock."

So if submission is a gift, I'd have to say Dominance is a responsibility. It is my responsibility to see to it that my sub performs within my set of rules and that I adhere to the standards I have set for myself for taking care of them.

Lashra

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ORIGINAL: KnightofMists


I don't see submission as a gift! nor do I see Dominance as a gift!

these are parts of people... a Part .. Not a whole of person. It's an interact dynamic.. It's a behavior, It's a personality.. it's alot of things... But for me they are not gifts. When I recieve a gift form someone they leave me... well I still have the gift. to do as I will... well the relationship ends... my dominance comes with me... their submission goes with them. We share these parts of ourselves! From this sharing.. I am enhanced as a person. from the memories, the experiences, the lessons amoung other things... but I am not a better submissive because someone thinks they give me a gift of submission!