SirLadyBear wrote:
1) be prepared to meet up at a munch or coffee shop. I dont trust people who dont want to engage with me first in a vanilla setting.
Lots of women (myself included) use this as to minimize the inherent danger of meeting up with someone you dont know.
2) Don't make your messages all about what you want the Domme to do to you. I have an inbox filled with unsolicited narritives of what random men want me to do with/to them for "my pleasure".
It's not my pleasure, its your pleasure. Don't use us as tools to fulfill your fantasy. We are people, talk to us, not at us.
3) your profile picture should not be your penis. No seriously, find something else. Anything else, Hell show me your NES game collection and i'll give you morre time of day than someone rocking a dick pic.
4) Be honest. Don't lie about your inexperience or experience and interests..
i think these are some more great points to add to the discussion and offer this sub's thoughts about them:
1. Meeting up in a vanilla setting helps quiet the hormones a wee bit and add some balance. While there are relationships that are all about sex, i think sex isn't just physical and a neutral setting helps make space for discussion of the cognitive/emotional/psychological side of the potential relationship. Plus, i have NEVER met someone online where they and the dynamic was not different face to face (i'm confident the same is true for those people). i would add that i believe both parties benefit from "...minimiz[ing] the inherent danger of meeting up with someone you don't know."
2. i think profiles are for explaining ones kinks/needs/desires. Of course, that cannot be exhaustive, it's only a verbal snap shot of the writer. To me, contacting someone is about responding to something they have said in a post or their profile... but it is a response to them, not a solicitation? i make a distinction between a hook up site and a relationship site though, so i get that this is me. i believe there is a need to articulate ones needs/desires to assess compatability, but it needs to be balanced. in my experience, this is a tough one. i'd say easily 85% of the guys i've met online either do not know how to articulate who they are and what their needs/wants are, or they are afraid to be open/vulnerable. i suspect that dynamic is different with MM than FM, regardless of the D/s aspect? As a guy, i want to know the details of a guys desires/needs/kinks to determine chemistry, but if He shows no signs of having read my profile or interest in my desires/needs/kinks, i don't have much confidence in relationship potential. To me, the person who initiates contact needs to show balance of inquiry about the other person, or response to something they have said, and include something about their self that may be relevant to their observation/perceptions of the person they are contacting.
3.lol, Dick pics. Sigh. i like them, but i'm a guy and it seems guys are more inclined to like/want that? i would like to see a face pic in the mix though... and hopefully one that is an accurate representation of who the person is.
4. Honesty. Yes please, it's a major turn on for me. "Honest" to me is open and vulnerable, it's a show of courage and maturity in my book. Not that i think one should put it all out there at once, but if you are trying to catch someone, use real live bait vs a plastic lure. Dishonesty always comes back and bites one.