WytchyWoman wrote:
tallslenderguy wrote:
I was mystified by my own arousal to being degraded/humiliated, then connected awhile back that it’s a dual experience. I do not get aroused when the act is done forcefully or in a bullying, mean way, but when it’s done with lust and affection, it opens me wide and surface’s the sub in me. I attribute the paradoxical feelings ( they are not rational) to cultural conditioning against a part of myself. The act is affirming but conditioning makes me feel humiliated and degraded. My break is over
I always enjoy your insight into the discussions and look forward to hearing more detail from you when you're not working. I can relate to the enjoyment of certain acts that others might consider degrading or humiliating as that kind of play is also one I enjoy when I'm in the right mindset and without fail - it has to be done with the right partner for me. I'd not engage in some of those more intimate and soul baring acts with a casual play partner.
What I'm failing to understand is how someone can deride someone else for lacking self esteem because of a cuckold kink but then go onto to relate their own kink which can easily be seen as equally outside the boundaries of healthy self esteem. Again, I look forward to any insight you are willing to share, TSG
Thank you for your kind comments WytchyWoman. i took a Myers Briggs type test in an executive management position once, it identified me as "nurturer" and "analytical critical thinker." Intuitively, those two things seem to contradict each other... but when i analyze them (rolls eyes at self) i can see where they fit together. i'm also a libra and it seems my nature to always look for balance. i don't think what i do is anything new or a discovery on my part, i know, for instance, yin/Yang has been around for a long time, To me it's just a matter of me seeing what already is.
As i see it, notions of self esteem are often cultural constructs. For instance, i was raised in a religious culture that taught me from an early age that being gay was a choice and a "sin," and "abomination to 'God'" etc.. i was conditioned to see and feel this way from an early age, both overtly and subtley. It's a form of ethnocentricity i think.
Most of us are familiar with ethnocentricity. How we believe AND feel that our way is THE way. We are exposed to another culture and we may think and feel they are barbarian, or dirty or ___________.
Cognitively i wonder and ask, who gets to set up the rules on what is right and wrong? What's the basis? Where does it come from? i don't think it's always all that easy to answer those questions. i think the question you ask about:
"...failing to understand... how someone can deride someone else for lacking self esteem because of a cuckold kink but then go on to relate their own kink which can easily be seen as equally outside the boundaries of healthy self esteem."
To me the derision derives from emotion, not cognition. We take our standards, especially emotional standards i think, (the ones we don't even necessarily put words to), as 'the standard' of what is or should be. Not meeting the standard is felt as failiiure.
i think i am just barely grazing he surface of this topic. i just got off a 13 hour shift and am blurry eyed, plus i think this is a vast topic. So vast that i think it comes down to individuals finding kinks that aline, i.e., feelings expressed in desires and needs.
Something else that complicates the process i think is how our needs/desires/kinks can be linked. For instance, i have a huge desire to please/pleasure a Man who has a huge desire/need to derive pleasure from me. That's foundational and kind of generic. i'm strictly bottom, so i know better than to even try this with another bottom. I.e., my bottom need is greater than my need to please. But if a Total Top comes along and has a huge desire/need to derive pleasure from a bottom, now we have to needs/desires that attract and aline with each other. Okay, lets say this Top also has some sadist in Him, but i don't have any masochist in me. i've experienced where this Man can add on a little sadism. While being Total Top and deriving pleasure from/with me He might slap my behind. Depending on how engaged we are in the other two areas, He might get manage to get me into being spanked.
i don't feel i am putting this well, i'm sleepy, but i have experienced being deeply opened and connected to a Man, and when in that state there may be a border thing He can 'add on" and i'll end up enjoying it because it's a part of a couple of other established and strong areas of pleasure/desire/need for both of us.
Sorry, i may be rambling lol.