LadyConstanze -> RE: Why Subs Top from the Bottom (12/31/2010 5:43:21 AM)
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Somebody claiming that they are submissive doesn't make them submissive, unless in their fantasies, which just doesn't do it for me. Someone claiming to be Dominant doesnt make them dominant either. Im always curious about those who claim such status, yet cant seem to understand why a sub may top from the bottom. Could it be lack of experience? Sure. It could also be that the one claiming to be the top isnt. Did you neglect the rest of my post on purpose? I mean where I explained that the topping from the bottom is a way of testing boundaries? Personally a bit of it, I don't mind because it gives me a better understanding of a sub and the dynamic they are after, not everybody is good in phrasing it, often people aren't even aware that they are doing it, it helps in reading the other person. To a certain degree I don't mind, but I am not interested in people who deem a dominant as somebody who forces another to submit, who wants to be pushed into submitting by force, it's nothing that does anything for, not the dynamic I am looking for. Personally I don't think I need to engage in it to fulfill some stereotype of dominant, if it's not my game then it would be rather weak and in fact submissive to engage in something I don't enjoy, just so somebody - who I possibly don't even want to interact with as for me it would not be pleasurable - will call me dominant. Dominant is nothing I have to put on for others, it means I'm in charge of my life and a scene, if it's not the scene the other person looks for, we are not compatible. I prefer to disengage and engage with somebody I enjoy playing with. I'm more interested in the SM part, the D/s is not the main interest, it's something I expect, there were situations when somebody who claimed to be a sub messed up on purpose or ignored an order to manipulate me into "punishing" him, always strikes me as a child who's doing something naughty to get attention, not my thing. If that happens I mention it, if it happens again and again and I get the "Well force me..." I disengage because it shows we are incompatible and that's the kind of topping from the bottom I can't stand. Now of course some will decide that it's not dominant, to be honest, I couldn't care less. I don't live my life to please people that have no place in my life. I make sure that they know what I want, if they agree, I take their interests into consideration because I believe a good relationship (be it vanilla or BDSM) will only work if both are getting something out of it, we test drive, it might not work and if I don't think the effort required to make it work is in correlation with the reward, it's better to part ways. For some another dynamic might work, it doesn't for me, because mainly I am not looking for a life partner but play partners, different thing. A certain amount of trying to top from the bottom - normal, expected, I deal with it, if it gets to the point where somebody does it to try and make me angry, it's a no go and I don't give in, that for me would be weakness. Now if somebody has been told of the consequences of actions and is still doing it, the consequences have to follow or it is weakness. They're then better off looking for somebody who is willing to engage in the dynamic they are looking for, I am better off with somebody who doesn't try to annoy me on purpose. Might not work for everybody, works for me though and at the end of the day I am responsible for my own happiness, nobody else.
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