Noah
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ORIGINAL: ghitaPVH Ok, I hope I can make this make sense. More and more I see people on here talk about hypnotism and other types of practices that have a profound mental impact on the submissive. Some Doms use types of brainwashing (for lack of a better term) techniques very similar to old marine corps techniques. Trust me, sleep depreivation, muscular exhaustion, dehydration, starvation, all those things...really work. they truly can effect the mental state and compleatly alter a persons personality and belief system. You keep a person awake long enough and they will do absoultly anything you tell them to, and they will generally retain a good bit of "training" after the deprivation period is over and done with. Anyway, used in a BDSM context, it can be rather powerful. rather intense, and in the right situation, rather hot. To go to the point where a persons body has compleatly shut down, you can literally take a persons body to the point where they can not function without a command, they forget how to walk, how to talk, how to dress until you drill it into their head exactly how you expect them to respond. OK, so yea, to most people this would be seen as a major form of abuse, but it does happen, and I have to wonder. Do the people who do it really think very far past the fantasy? When you fuck with a persons mental capacities to this point...youve got to realize its a permenant effect. What happens two years down the road when the relationship is over for one reason or another? How is that sub supposed to "go on". There is no recovery...at least not total recovery.....and do people ever consider the fact that what they are doing will have lasting effects long after their relationship is done? Its been six years for me since I got out of that relationship. And I just had a massive slap in the face this morning realizing that as hard as I try, I still cant shake the responses that were drilled into my head back then. My body hasnt physically recovered since then, and according to the docs it probably never will, but mentally? I never expected to still be dealing with this now. this far down the road. anyway, I am not sure I really had anything important to say with this post, other than wondering whats in the heads of people who really get into the mental aspects of BDSM, and what are your reasons behind it? Is it a fantasy? Is it the control? how do you guard against permanant damage? Do you just assume the sub will be with you forever so it wont matter? Are old marines all damaged by their training? quote:
Trust me, sleep depreivation, muscular exhaustion, dehydration, starvation, all those things...really work. they truly can effect the mental state and compleatly alter a persons personality and belief system. I'm not sure what you mean by completely, but setting that aside ... Have you ever been present in the aftermath of a natural disaster? When survivors pull together to prevail under adverse conditions with limited resources they can end up in a condition just like the one you describe: sleep deprived, physically exhausted, dehydrated, starving, all those things. Some might be scarred physically or mentally by these events and their reaction to the events. Call these group A. Some will come to know themselves and appreciate the world and their life in ways and to degrees that they may never have achieved without that powerful experience. Call these group B. It is interesting to me that groups A and B are not mutually exclusive. Some of the people who are ever-after grateful for the epiphanies revealed and capabilities discovered in such an extreme situation are among those who take away scars. Each of these people ends up changed, different. On that we can probably all agree. We might even agree that every one of them leaves something there that they will never get back. But aren't some things very much worth leaving behind? Should we call all of the scarred people damaged? Should they call themselves damaged? I'm sorry if you and your partner went too far and you are in just plain fucked in certain ways by the whole business.. I encourage you to--maybe you have already--assume responsibility for the decisions you made and actions you took in that relationship. I further encourage you not to conceive of yourself as damaged. "Damaged" is an evaluation, after all. And we can over time decide and control what we value as positive as well as what we will value as negative. You are who and what you are these six years after that relationship. You were partially formed by it, as you were by every other relationship in your life. A person in your position has a choice whether to allow themselves to be defined by a given experience. Seems to me like you're doing pretty well. Good for you. Keep it up.
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