Lucia(sub female){not lookin}
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6 years ago •
Mar 1, 2018
Re: In pulic
6 years ago •
Mar 1, 2018
As long as what you are doing is not illegal and overly offensive toward other people , you should enjoy it.[/quote
^^ That is the key. It doesn't sound like Marten or any posters here fit this category, but I have in my time seen some some extreme displays of BDSM in public- noticeable bondage, walking around cuffed, someone with uncovered bruises being led through a (vanilla) club on a chain, and worst of all, open and loud use of the term "slave"- and seen folks around be really, justifiably upset. Upset in a triggered way, not a judgmental way. It shouldn't be taken as judgment (from me or anyone) but certain things are going to be really, really upsetting to Average Vanilla Joe passing by and that is ok. I hope no one's mad at me now, but it's a fact that for non-kinksters being faced with some things, most particularly the concept of human ownership and the association of sex and physical pain/marking can be genuinely terrible. Kinksters talk a lot about our own privacy/safety and how we can be shamed, but we also need to recognize that sometimes BDSM practices make folks feel uncomfortable because of things they may have been through, and that is not the same thing as shaming. And I strongly believe we have a responsibility to consider the possibility of triggering trauma for some poor stranger. A lot of kinksters I have encountered understand this about things like bruises & bondage, but get a bit huffy about being told to keep the word "slave" private. I really want to put forth (no judgment from me, I don't need philosophizing defending the concept, I get it) that especially white kinksters have to recognize the situation and what that word means to folks other than you. It's not ok to throw that out in public and make someone else confront that whole massive issue.
That being said, there are endless options in this world for discreet collars- and if you're not following a traditional set of rules, who says it has to be a collar? Get your sub a choker or necklace from a non-BDSM source and y'all will still know what it is to you (obviously for those who only consider an official collar acceptable that's fine too). There's bondage under clothing, of course, and in addition to those behaviors that could arguably be just "good manners" as y'all discussed I would say you can go even farther in a setting like a bar/restaurant or coffee shop by having your sub fetch/prepare your food for you, fix your coffee, get your drinks, cut your sandwich in half, go put your picks on the jukebox, you get the picture. There's endless little moments to be taken advantage of.
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