Trust is the essential foundation of all BDSM practices, and potentially emotionally challenging scenario spaces using humiliation or degradation are an exercise in emotional trust in the same way Bondage or S&M focus more heavily on exploring and growing physical trust.
The reality is that a humiliation sub is far from worthless, (just maybe don’t tell them that while they’re experiencing subspace within the energy of the humiliation kink.)
The thing about this is that being able to embrace a deep state of humiliation or degradation requires a sub’s tremendous faith and trust in the Dom who is activating the sub’s humiliation and managing the scenario in a way for them to be able to be free to wallow in the ecstatic subspace it generates. Submission is a gift of trust between a sub and a Dom and without the sub trusting the Dom and giving them the power and authority to humiliate or degrade the sub, there is no exploration of this energy.
It is also imperative to understand that a Dom is also putting tremendous trust in the sub. Trust that the sub will operate within the experience in a way that is not self-harming such as exploiting the Dom’s energy in order to amplify feelings low self-esteem or to project past power abuse traumas (such as past or ongoing parental emotional abuse) onto the Dom in ways the Dom has not consented to.
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Some tangential concerns that get too little discussion:
Refusal of aftercare or treating it dismissively. Aftercare communication is essential to understanding a scenario that you’ve experienced together. Rejection of it is a form of harm to your partner and demonstrates a lack of willingness to be personally accountable for the energy flow and to be sincerely present and contemplatively engaged in whatever the experience was. This demonstrates a lack of trustworthiness and potentially a lack or trust as a partner.
Another is anger. A Dominant is always accountable to not becoming angry. A sub might (even unconsciously) draw a Dom toward anger as part of their projection of past trauma from another partner or parent. A Dom who is experiencing anger should yellow safeword to redirect an experience away from that energy.
One part of a sub’s responsibilities are to contemplatively work on their self awareness in ways that allows for exploration, but does not create obstacles to exploration. Projection of past trauma that gets used to justify resentment or scenario rejection
Just as a Dom is responsible to not become angry and to steer the scenario away from the trigger for it, a sub is responsible to steer away from behavior that triggers anger from the Dom.
A healthy BDSM practice is always going to start in a balanced place of good communication and return to a balanced place of good communication. Anger, resentment, or other obstacles are always signs that a practice is not ready to move forward in any way other than into more time spent on communication and balance.
Humiliation is a statement about how willing I am to debase myself for him. It’s about the contrast with who I otherwise am. I don’t get wet when he calls me a worthless cumslut because I believe I am lacking value, I get wet when he calls me a worthless cumslut because he’s pointing out to me how low I am willing to go for him. He knows I’m an accomplished woman, worthy of being treasured, and that it’s only for him that I will lower myself to ‘’worthless’’ cumslut in order to please.
When drool drips down my chin, when I spread my ass open to his gaze, and when I perform acts for him I can barely speak, they are statements about the lengths I will go to for his pleasure. These moments recognize the disparity between the me that belongs to the rest of the world, and the me that belongs to him
Choosing Obedience can have many reasons. Making your partner (“Daddy” honorific in the above case) proud is a very common reason, although there are others. Whatever motivates you, Obedience in a BDSM relationship is only possible from a starting position of equality. This is the relevance of feminism in BDSM. No person can truly submit their power to another if they did not start from a position of equality.
The current wave of anti-feminism in “bdsm” blogs isn’t BDSM at all. It is just a self aggrandizing abuse fantasy, almost universally advanced by men with a sadism fetish and no real world way to explore their want for a relationship of any kind. Their fantasy and loneliness leads them to self-delude that they can espouse a philosophy of abusing a person into submission. They delusionally think they can coerce and/or threaten a person sufficiently to create a relationship that is rewarding to them. They’re criminally violent in their abuse fantasies and there’s no place for them in this society except in a therapist’s office.
While the state of abuser blogs remains such a high concentration, there really is no place for the public display of any undisclaimed anti-feminism kink in public facing spaces like Tumblr.
Choosing IS feminism.
Why are we cursed with such an ignorant population of men so desperate to control women that they reveal their stupidity on the topic of women with such relentless enthusiasm…
Fyi. A woman can
love daddys dick.
Love to be spanked.
Love choking on dick.
Love being a babygirl.
And still hate men that try to take her rights away. Hate men that degrade them and think of them a property. Hate men that think women are just breeding cows and should just cook clean and raise kids. . Don't call me names. Don't spit on me. Don't degrade me and don't take away my rights to my body.
If you have a problem with this just go to someone else's blog. Don't try and debate me. I am just a woman with daddy issues living in a world that is trying to hold me down
Is it really, really gross and outside of many sub’s boundaries to be used as an ashtray?
Absolutely.
However, that isn’t the point of presenting this video as an instructional example.
This is an extremely good video for EVERY sub to watch on repeat as part of understanding what processing looks like.
There are a lot of kinds of processing, but processing disgust is one of the most important because disgust is one of the top obstacles a submissive is likely to face along their path of growth and development. (Pain processing, jealousy processing, humiliation processing, degradation processing, self acceptance processing, and obedience processing are a few of the other obstacle strewn areas where growth through processing is required for success.
This video/scenario gets to the very heart of a purposeful D/s practice. As a Dominant, I find watching a submissive accept their Dominant’s guidance and to then process through a difficult obstacle successfully to be incredibly arousing.
If your disgust reaction is too strong, you may need to watch it and desensitize until you can overcome your disgust and clearly see the power she manifests as she processes through being an ashtray. Dominants, watch the way he supports her through patience and clear communication. You can hear in his tone that he believes in her ability to focus her power and succeed.
This is what healthy D/s practice looks like. Study it and communicate with each other about how to accomplish this sort of processing success for the obstacles that challenge you in your path.
My good girl, my ashtray, I'm going to smoke my Cuban cigar, open your mouth, I don't want to see a tear fall, the consequences could be much worse, and remember to always thank me 🖤
Your body must be rested and fed if you wish to be a pervert.
Oh my god being told to "Bend over and show me".... Like leaning over the counter or the side of the couch and spreading my legs a little to hold my ass and thighs apart so you can see what a mess I am? That right there makes my brain melt
BDSM can be done for the wrong reasons and if a submissive isn’t willing or able to engage in safe and consensually validated activity that expressly makes them feel successful and healthy in their role then they need to evaluate their experience more thoroughly and contemplatively.
That being said, the pushing of boundaries is an inherent part of bdsm practice. The point here is that if your participation is so significantly one sided that you are consistently failing to communicate about your own interests and needs while feeling harmed, that you are indeed being harmed. Either self-harm or partner abuse. A properly patient and supportive Dom who is trying to help you communicate and trying to help you explore your self-stated interests is not necessarily abusing you. One’s misuse of BDSM as a form self-harm can be a misunderstood element, an actively exploited element, or an element related to support, etc. within a BDSM relationship.
This is why using thorough checklists and then COMMUNICATING thoroughly through those checklists is so important. If a sub is not able to fully take ownership of their interests within a practice then they are not currently giving fully informed consent. Informed consent must include a full understanding of the complexity of self-harm as a component and pitfall of even the most healthy of BDSM practices.
When a submissive has potential self-harm elements that doesn’t automatically mean they should not practice BDSM, but it does mean they and their Dom need to openly discuss these challenges and responsibly navigate them within their practice.
I love non-sexual signs of submission as much I love sexual ones.
Kneel for me, moan for me, beg to cum. After all, you look gorgeous on your knees pleading.
But also lay your head on my lap while we watch something, wear my clothes out, perform little acts of service just to show me how much you care.
After all, my claim over you isn’t just in the bedroom, so why should your services to me end there?
Consent is the essential element that makes scenarios possible. I’ll clarify and make more peominent this part of my bio given some ego-centric tools seem to think they matter to me: I write simply for my own practice putting thoughts into text. Nothing I write is about nor for anyone else save for myself and my partner in practice.Additionally: Feminism in BDSM is the essential idea that a person of any gender can only participate as a submissive in BDSM if they start from a position of respected equality Married over 40No DM’s
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