Suleiman
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I've been avoiding this discussion out of the belief that I have nothing to add to it. I don't play mind games in scene, and I don't recall any mindgames being played on me. If I trust someone, they can't really mindfuck me. If I don't trust them, I have proven quite able to remove whatever restraints are on me in order to defend myself. Thus, the MF is, for me, either a deal-breaker or a non-issue. I do, however play mind games. In ritual. Initiatory ceremonies, to me, are a time when a person should be scared. Symbolic death and rebirth can be used to create powerful mindfucks, as can the danse macabre, or even a simple evocation. If you've called up an entity of great power - whether you believe it to stem from your own subconscious, or from the abyss of aethyr, you are afraid. This thing can consume you. Learning to move with and through this fear is the only way to remain in control of the scenario. I've been doing that sort of thing for so long, confronting a mere physical phobia is nothing. I suppose part of the trust issue, for me, is the fact that, when I submit, I do not want to be strong. Not that sort of strength, any way. That's why I prefer to be tied up. It's not that I can not keep myself still while being played with, but that mantaining that level of self control means that I have not completely surrendered. If there is a trust issue involved with the person I am playing with, that means I have not completely surrendered, and so there is no point in being tied up, collared, or otherwise bound. I do not feel safe, I do not feel protected, and so I never reach that level of submission that I crave. I do not submit to people I do not trust implicitly. I don't get anything out of it to do so. I might as well just masturbate - it's faster, the scenario can go however I want, and I'm assured of a happy ending. So I guess I still have nothing to add to the debate at hand, other than a specific point of view for why some folks don't do it. ~S
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