WebWanderer
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Joined: 5/20/2011 From: Fort Worth, TX Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha When meeting a dominant for the first time, what is your screening process like? How much chemistry must be in place? First and foremost, I read and re-read their profile. Red flags for me include poor grammar and spelling, references to drugs and any kind of fin-domme innuendos. (Been there, done that, got my heart broken, wrote a book. Yay.) Then it's their age and pictures: if she's old enough to be my mother and/or wouldn't be able to keep up with me on a 5-mile run, it probably wouldn't work out in the long term. (I'm not a size-ist, it's just that back home most folks were mighty athletic...) Personal philosophy and politics matter as well: I don't think I'd be able to have any relationship outside of dungeon with someone who adores Ayn Rand or Twilight and believes in intelligent design or 9/11 conspiracies. Those criteria eliminate the vast majority of available profiles, but in the end I know that I'm at least somewhat drift-compatible with that person. quote:
Sometimes I feel like male submissives may do better if they played a little more "hard to get" for lack of a better word. We had a lively discussion on FL a few years ago actually and I think the premise was, "What if male subs cherished/protected their submission like women protected their virginity." That thread sounds great! Is there any chance you could find the link to it? I have my own pet hypothesis on this: those who play hard to get stand out in the crowd, regardless of their gender and orientation. They probably won't be swayed by one-liners from rampaging hordes of kinky lemmings and would probably connect better to a kindred spirit if s/he were to message them. Personally, it's not that I play hard to get - it's just that I have standards and self esteem. For example, after a certain vacuum bed incident at a local party that, ahem, accentuated certain parts of my anatomy, I literally ended up running away from groups of stalkers (mostly of the female, desperate-housewife persuasion), just like in that Benny Hill show, only without the theme music. They just wouldn't take no for an answer! I'm sure quite a few guys would have taken advantage of that fleeting, undeserved fame, but to me it just seemed unsportsmanlike: there was no challenge, no connection, no long-term possibilities except for a couple of "booty call" phone numbers. To those of you wondering - yes, I do find a great Domme every now and then. The ends justify the means - and then some.
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