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LuckyAlbatross -> RE: random thoughts... (1/13/2007 9:08:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomThoughts It is a reasonably well accepted scientific fact that men are more inclined than women to have sadistic sexual fantasies than women, and likewise, women are more likely to have masochistic tendencies than men. It is? I hadn't realized that at all and would not be inclined to agree with such a "fact" with some presentations of evidence. quote:
Though of course these bruises would be hidden as few people want to share their subversive nature with those who might not understand the concepts behind it. Well, some people want to hide, but I honestly think the majority simply NEED to hide them in order to avoid social outcasting or other negative responses. quote:
The psychological aspects can be equally extreme, the desire to dominate, and to be dominated, is a strong desire for a huge percentage of the population. See you started out talking about S&M and now you're talking D/s. I'm not sure how you're trying to relate the two. quote:
Although all combinations of gender are accommodated perhaps the most common is the male dominant and a female submissive. Perhaps, but I don't think it is. quote:
Perhaps in its most simple form, the women of these relationships are fulfilling the basic desire to make their partner happy and what better way of making a partner happy than to do his bidding. Now you've leapt from S&M, to Ds, to the female wanting to make the male happy. These are a lot of leaps here, none of which I'n inclined to agree with and none of which I find very solid. The male partners want to make the female partners happy as well just as often as the female partners want to make the male partners happy. quote:
From that premise it does not take a huge leap of faith to envisage a situation where a woman will give herself entirely to a partner allowing him to do absolutely as he desires, without question regardless of how humiliating or degrading his desires might be – and often because of the humiliation and degradation. It doesn't take a huge leap of faith because we already KNOW such situations exist. However, you're trying to suggest that those situations are predominant within society, and that somehow it's all springing from some basic ideas about S&M urges. I don't go with that flow at all. quote:
I suspect that psychologists would concur that this is the driving motivation behind most rapes – there are a huge number of erotic sadomasochistic stories that involve forced sexual slavery because perhaps this is the natural conclusion of these desires. Whoa, fowl. Forced rape fantasies are NOTHING like actual rapes and are completely different animals. Forced slavery might be considered really hot to a lot of people, but I don't consider it a "natural conclusion" of S&M desires, Ds desires, or even humiliation desires. quote:
For the most part, the people who enter into such a defined lifestyle are reasonably enlightened about their sexuality. This is the only part of your post that I just flat out disagree with. Trust me, people into kink are just as clueless and prudish about sex as any vanilla person you can find, sometimes even more so. Nothing about having kinky desires makes a person more aware or enlightened about sexuality. Trust me, I could pull up some threads showing how clueless kinky people are. quote:
They have discovered that this is a sexual desire, and they have set about fulfilling it and are generally extremely strong minded about what they do, and don’t want from a relationship Hmmm lots of evidence to the contrary on that. First off, there's always debates over whether these is a primarily sexual desire, primarily relationship desire, or some mix of both. Secondly, plenty of people have no clue what they are seriously looking for and just wander about picking up whatever relationship they happen to stumble on. quote:
Now I’m not trying to suggest that all battered wives are secret masochists. I agree that some women find themselves in terrible situations that they are desperate to get out of. However I have long had the idea that some women do seek out such relationships, because it is what they need to fulfil themselves. In particular the apparent serial battered wife, who goes from one abusive relationship to the next. I think they gravitate towards abusive relationships for far different reasons than just their hot fantasies. But Julia's already provided that link, so I'll let you go there yourself. quote:
It could be said that these women are considerably more honest in their sexuality, because they don’t need to build these convoluted fantasies to show their servitude towards their partner, all they want is to make their partner happy so they don’t get punished. So they don't get punished? I'll go back to the idea that everyone wants to make eachother happy, and that we get into consensual relationships not to avoid punishment, but because it fulfills us to be in that authority transfer. I hardly see how it's "more honest" to be in those situations than in a situation like mine. quote:
Well it was just a passing thought that I figured I’d write down. Perhaps I’m completely off target and just being a stereotypically chauvinistic male. But the whole thing kinda makes sense to my warped brain. Guess I’m just hoping that you, the reader of this, is at least a little warped too. Regards... If you believe in all of the stereotypes and skewed premises, then yes, your conclusions make sense. The problem is, I find all of your premises quite off the wall and the leaps to the conclusions very questionable.
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