darq -> RE: Its all about me ... (5/11/2006 8:54:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Proprietrix I am an "It's all about me" Dominant. And in my home, and my relationships, it is indeed, My way or the highway. Part of it being "All about me" is that the subs/slaves I choose derive their fulfillment in serving me. If I wanted an egalitarian relationship based on equality of both parties, I'd be.... vanilla. That's not what I'm into. I'm into Power Exchange, with *me* being the one with the power. I was a submissive for many years. In all that time, I never once thought "What about *ME*?" My fulfillment came from providing good service, having the privilege of being in someone's collar, and making my owners happy and comfortable. It was "all about them". When I see a submissive talk like that, the first thing I think is ... Wow, lacking a bit in the humility (and perhaps honesty) department there aren't we, love? Do I get pleasure from pleasing my dominant? Well, yeah ... If I didn't, I wouldn't be a submissive. I'd just be into kinky sex. I don't believe that a submissive or slave can serve a dominant for any length of time and *never* once think, hmm what about me? It is human nature to look out for number one ... As submissives, we try to temper human nature with self control, humility and then there's also, for many, that natural desire to be of service. As a Dominant, I'm not in this lifestyle to see how many subbie fantasies I can make come true. I'm not a sub's personal flogging machine. I'm not their rent-a-Domme. I'm not their bondage facilitator. I'm not their cum dumpster. If a sub/slave has a laundry lists of kinks, fetishes, and personal desires they need fulfilled, they simply don't fit in my collar. This is not a 50/50 relationship. That doesn't mean I'm abusive to my subs/slaves. I'm not going to ignore them if they have a legitimate need. But they do know up front that the power exchange arrangement is centered around me and my desires, because I am the Mistress, and they are the slave. I have a standard of what I seek (loyal, dedicated subs/slaves, who derive an inner peace and fulfillment from pleasing me.) If they don't have that, they aren't what I'm looking for. That doesn't mean I'm looking for a cookie-cutter sub. It just means that the sub/slaves I take meet certain requirements. It also doesn't mean I expect *all* submissives and slaves to instantly kneel before me. I only expect that from *my* collared ones (and sometimes from others in very high protocol settings with an exclusive group). I don't try to make other submissives and slaves fit into what I want, but within *my* relationships, it is about me and my comfort and my pleasure. What they get out of it is having their inner need to serve fed, and the privilege of being in my collar and a part of my home. Do I complain about not being able to find what I want? Sometimes. But I don't see complaining about something as translating into anything more than complaining. I'd be reading too much into a person if I sat back analyzing why they are complaining and how that relates to their inner character as a person. Some people have certain expectations in a car. "I want an XYZ model that gets 40 miles/gallon, but damn it, I can't find it in any local car lots." I don't take that as them setting unrealistic expectations and then whining. I take it as they want XYZ model and haven't found it yet. No different than someone bitching about not being able to afford a plasma screen TV or college tuition. They might be saving up for it, but in the meantime, they complain about not being able to afford it yet. That doesn't make them some evil sinister person. It just means they are expressing their feelings about their current situation. But it *is* different ... Cars, collge tuition, plasma screen TVs all have one thing in common. They are inanimate. They don't have emotions therefore, there is no relationship between yourself and those things. Or at least there shouldn't be, if you're an emotionally healthy individual. The reason I stick with D/s even after all the hell I've been through in trying to find the right Master, is because of the emotional connection I feel when its right. Without that emotional connection, the sex is meaningless, the service is meaningless, the whole entire thing is meaningless. If it were truely *all about being of service and pleasing my Dom* then any Dom would do ... As long as I was physically capable of performing the tasks that were pleasing to him, it wouldn't matter who he was or what kind of person he was. I could just randomly choose a Dom on this site or any other. Or hell, for that matter, why choose a Dom? I could just choose any man ... I could walk out my front door, grab one of the men off the street and devote the rest of my life and energy to pleasing him. I'm sure he'd enjoy it and it wouldn't matter if he ever did or said anything fulfilling to me because, hell, I'm a submissive and my life is about being pleasing to him. No disrespect, but seriously, thats how it comes across sometimes ...
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