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Various observations and thoughts that I have made about them through the years
5 years ago. September 12, 2019 at 3:04 PM

I write "mindfuck" instead of mindfuck, as I don't doubt that there are people who really get excited and horny by the latter, a mental connection is necessary in any case, two people who are potential partners must be able to understand each other, I write "mindfuck" thinking of an another tendency. On BDSM sites there are profiles of people saying that "I don't say what I want, it's up to others to find out, because they have to fuck my mind before fucking my body". This is something obviously problematic, since you cannot really know what's going on inside an individual's mind and psyche even if they are people whom you have known personally and for a long time, sometimes not even inside you, let alone somebody whose existence the only reason you are aware of is because he/she has a profile somewhere. I do have a reservation for this, but my suspicion is that very often "mindfuck" is nothing but a cover story for people who actually simply do not wish to tell what they are looking for. 

Coming now to the "feminist" type issue, I still remember vividly the first conversation I ever had with somebody about BDSM online several years ago. We were chatting and although we hardly had exchanged  a few words, she asked me "how many subs have you had?". I explained that I hadn't known a person wanting the same things out of such a relationship as me among the people I have met in real life, that's why I had turned to the web, no reason to do that otherwise, and I was at the beginning of my search, hadn't yet met such a person in real life, let alone had a sub. We kept conversating for some time, as we had some similar interests outside BDSM, but in at least the first four times we chatted she made the same question. Our contact proved to be a dead end and was duly stopped, but some time later I noticed her posting on the website's forum (it was a Greek site) complaints about various guys she had had contact with and specific things which they had said to her during private conversations, plus publishing lists about what she didn't like about men in general, she was therefore a classic "feminist" type, although hardly a unique example, I mention her as being very characteristic.The interesting thing with this "feminist" was that just a short time previously, she had kept asking me how many subs I had in the past, obviously because that was exactly what she wanted to hear. I don't doubt that there are plenty of women who have had reasons for complaining about men, but one common complaint specifically regarding BDSM, is men "having lied about their level of experience". This obviously happens because that is what many women want to hear, and so many men, fearing rejection due to "lack of experience" oblige. Therefore there are many people, who simply wish to be deceived, consciously or unconsciously, and when they realize the truth, put the blame on somebody else. Although numbers vary from site to site, usually there is a men/women ratio of at least 5 to 1, something which can be very easily understood by women who undergo the little trouble of checking how many men are registered on such a site and how many women. Taking into account just how fewer women are, plus the fact that a very high percentage of them are nothing but scammers, looking only for money, it doesn't take a lot to figure out that when a man claims to have had dozens of subs serving him in the past, there is a very high probability that he is either exaggerating or simply lying. 

In conclusion, the "here to learn", "mindfuck" and "feminist" approaches, either due to purpose, naivete or sheer stupidity, come down to one thing, those people taking no responsibility whatsoever for their own words and deeds, and particularly if something goes wrong, to be able to place all the blame on somebody else. They are always about somebody else, the "here to learn" type implying and often also declaring openly that it is the duty of the other members to "teach" him/her BDSM, the "mindfuck" type leaving everything to be guessed by others and the "feminist" type not taking any responsibility about what she wants as she doesn't express it in the first place. This is flatly wrong, as those people seem to forget that whenever somebody joins a website, regardless of subject matter, he/she first declares that is 18 years old and above, therefore an adult and legally fully responsible for his/her own actions. 

Little moon​(sub female){Not lookin} - I understand everything you’re putting forward here and it’s aptly done, however I myself fall under the “here to learn” role, although I take it upon myself to do research, ask questions and collect information as much as possible myself instead of relying on others. The people you are describing here to me all fall under a single category of “narcissist” and once I peg someone as that I leave them be to their own devices as I’m no cheerleader or welcoming matt to be walked on or pander to another’s mood swings. I feel like there is a lot more depth to all of this and I look forward to reading the next part thank you
5 years ago
IslandSir​(dom male) - There is always room to learn about anything, the issue is that when people claim to be there in order to learn, what they actually have in mind has nothing with the process of learning to do. Motivation for those behaviours may vary, but one thing that has to be kept in mind is that during this decade BDSM has been in the vogue, and so it seems like there is to a lot of people around playing with the idea without being really serious about it or truly in need of such a relationship, and who naturally do not want to have any responsibility for their own actions since they are not serious about it in the first place.
5 years ago
IslandSir​(dom male) - As it is obvious from the text, I wrote "feminist" and not feminist, which is a clear enough distinction, although the subject of feminism itself is a big and complex one, and beyond this particular discussion, however I don't think of feminism as exactly one thing, it can vary a lot from time to time and place to place. That I mentioned a specific individual and her behavior had exactly to do with that happening at a different site and not here, and many years ago. Neither were her public complaints about me, they were about other men she had had contact with at that site and what I found striking was that the very same person who was looking to be deceived by one man, me, was later complaining about others, and for rather silly reasons. As for the issue of learning/discovering your own desires, in the first part of the post I did write about that subject and that if somebody indeed wishes to be informed there are better places for that than BDSM-related social networking and dating sites, where somebody can count with encountering a large number of people whose motivations for being there have nothing to do with BDSM.
5 years ago
IslandSir​(dom male) - It is a loaded term, but I considered and still consider it the most appropriate, certainly with a dose of irony. As the behaviors I have described, they aren't so much about a contradiction of words and actions but rather about a constant avoidance of responsibility for them.
There are tens of thousands of people to be found on such sites, so it is obvious that I cannot know the motivations, thoughts and feelings of each and every one of them, but since I have come into contact with hundreds of people one way or the other I have come to know how to distinguish patterns of behavior. This site is a good one to start for a person from the US as up to 80% of active members are from there, personally I like it more for the way the site itself works as there isn't much to meet here in terms of people. Nevertheless my view as previously mentioned is that somebody truly wishing to learn and understand more should start from the vast non-fiction literature on the subject.
5 years ago
IslandSir​(dom male) - Plus some of them did identify themselves as feminist.
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