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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

that works for me ;)

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

Only if they're both the types to fight.

I recall my dog who always wanted to be top dog, being baffled and disappointed when we agreed to take a friend's dog overnight. The other dog wouldn't fight, just handed over whatever toy she had found and looked for something else. She just wanted to play together as friends.

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ORIGINAL: gungadin09

"Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at most can defend themselves if they are attacked. They are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and kill him."

Homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to man)
Sigmund Freud

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ORIGINAL: gungadin09

"Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at most can defend themselves if they are attacked. They are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and kill him."

Homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to man)
Sigmund Freud

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

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ORIGINAL: gungadin09

"Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at most can defend themselves if they are attacked. They are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and kill him."

Homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to man)
Sigmund Freud

That is a description of an utterly feral man, who has had no exposure at all to civilisation. That said, the same impulses are at work within us, however tamed and we've become, to conquer, to rape, to exploit. They manifest themselves in subtle ways now, ie overtime, job performance, competing for clients business, not overtly ie violence/rape.. But by and large we haved successfully redirected that aggressive testosterone to BUILD civilisations worldwide.

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ORIGINAL: lilmissdefiant
I sometimes view Domination and submission as putting two animals or people in a small space and watch them battle it out for the territory who every wins is the Dominant one and who ever doesn't win submits and plays by the other animals rules.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

yeah that description doesn't work for me.

The idea of having to fight someone to dominate me just makes me want to run and hide. That's too much work and something that just creeps me out.

For me when I meet someone I feel is a dominant personality I will lay down in front of them and bare my neck.