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4 years ago. April 19, 2019 at 4:09 PM

Do you know the origin of the rule of thumb? It’s actually quite simple. 

It’s a process that can easily be derived from learning. 

I don’t know a better rule that fits the context of growing in the culture that is bdsm. 

We all learn in various ways: some are hands on, some are book learners, some need a verbally spoken lesson, others only learn from their mistakes. 

Its important to tell your sub or Dom how you learn, what best works for you. Example: Breath play, I’m a very ‘hands on’ person. I wouldn’t be able to just listen to someone’s instructions  on how to do it. I’d need to have  a submissive that can give me signs that it’s too much or not enough.

That’s just ONE example of how I think “the rule of thumb” applies to me. There are many others , but I think I’d focus on that. 

Curious, who in the class knows the origin of the rule of thumb?

What is your perfect way of instruction? How do you learn in the lifestyle? 

 

Stay classy, Sam Diego. 

 

WEAPON X{Master} - Im like you more of a hands on but also learn from a mistake here and there
4 years ago
Bunnie - Hands on here too ✋️
And the origin of the rule of thumb... for some reason I’m thinking it was a method used for counting? I can’t quite remember what the system was though. Or that could be something else entirely that I have mixed up lol.
4 years ago
Bunnie - Actually... to be more accurate... I learn visually, and then “lock it in” by putting it into physical practice.
4 years ago
ZoomOut - You can beat your wife with anything that’s not bigger than your thumb.
4 years ago
Wiseonthree​(dom male) - Correct.
4 years ago
ZoomOut - I’m always right 😂
4 years ago
Bunnie - Lol... good one
4 years ago
ZoomOut - Should clarify, anything that’s diameter doesn’t exceed the diameter of your thumb.
4 years ago
alawey​(sub female){(OWNED BY } - ok i have your answer to "Curious, who in the class knows the origin of the rule of thumb?" :


A reference to this connection is found in 1881, in a book by Harriet H. Robinson: Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. She says there, "By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with a stick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him."

Most of her statement is undoubtedly true: married women had little recourse if a husband treated her or her children badly, including many acts of battery.

There was an 1868 case, State v. Rhodes, where a husband was found innocent because, the judge said, "the defendant had a right to whip his wife with a switch no larger than his thumb," and in another case in 1874, State v. Oliver, the judge cited the "old doctrine, that a husband had a right to whip his wife, provided he used a switch no longer than his thumb" but continued on that this was "not law in North Carolina. Indeed, the Courts have advanced from that barbarism...."

A 1782 cartoon by James Gillray depicted a judge, Francis Buller, supporting this idea—and earned the judge the nickname, Judge Rule
4 years ago
alawey​(sub female){(OWNED BY } - sorry was late it my answer. but Wolf needed something as i was typing it out
4 years ago

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