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13 comments:
Those sh00ze look uncomfortable.
-Paula
Just another day at the office?
What do these pics say to you, Don? Because I'm bewildered.
It never occurred to me until you asked that question that viewers such as yourself might think I had found these pictures somewhere and put them up out of a weird unexplained perversion. If so, that would explain the relative comment silence.
What these pictures say to me is that the only location from which I could decently frame the subject was under a leak in the dome such that rainwater filled my hat brim and poured all over my camera whenever I looked down to see how the picture came out.
What these pictures say to me is that there are people in this world unafraid to share unusual aspects of their lives with total strangers.
What these pictures say to me is that the trappings of abuse and control can, as in this case, serve to amplify complete love and trust, such as I witnessed between these two people as she surrendered to his peculiar talents.
What these pictures say to me is that the thorough dependency we enjoy as children can, with an ounce of creativity, be recreated when we are adults.
I imagine they say even more. But mostly it was an interesting performance and I went and ahead and took pictures once it was clear she didn't mind.
I'm not sure what you mean by viewers such as me, but no: I'd assumed you took them.
What I wanted to know was what story you were seeing, because I was pretty sure it wasn't what I, without any backstory, was seeing.
And you have confirmed that!
:-D What I should have written:
"... viewers (such as yourself) ..."
Meaning any and all.
Now I want to know what story you were seeing.
I don't know what I'm seeing, no matter how many times I look at it. I see a beautiful young woman strung up in a way that suggests eroticism and bondage. She is a puppet, the man holding the ropes her puppetmaster.
I assume she's enjoying her exhibition. I assume the people around are feeling turned on, bemused, and weirded out, separately or in combination.
Gekko talks about empowerment. I know that it's voguish for young women to say that displaying themselves sexually is a deliberate use of their power. I think that they are as much used as using in this.
Your description, which seems both romantic and naive to me, also suggests you'd be a helluva writer of erotica.
Sexual manipulationand using versus used is problematic if the young woman is not genuinely aware of her power. If she's doing something to please the men and herself derives no special pleasure from that gift, then the balance of power is with the man or men, not even, nor tipped to her side.
It's common for people, in ignorance or based on their own projected fears/discomfort to presume the man had the power. In a BD scene as depicted here, the one running the scene does not necessarily have the ultimate power. In a solid BDSM relationship, the sub had the ultimate say-so, and the pleasure is all mutual. Even the much-hated polygynous religious sects tend to feature woman-dominated relationships. Granted, there are those throw-backs like Jeffs. Even so, it is worthwhile to suspend (hee!) judgment until more facts are known.
c.f. mention above of the love and trust expressed between these two. It was rather touching, actually. My sense is she enjoyed the suspension and the exhibitionism, he developed the skills for her sake, and then they took it on the road, so to speak.
"It's common for people, in ignorance or based on their own projected fears/discomfort to presume the man had the power."
Or you could think that the story I see is one of the stories the image invites, too.
Absolutely. It is, after all, a performance, and the audience is invited to see in it what they will.
I keep trying to comment and Blogger keeps throwing me out. One more go.
What I was going to say, was I would want someone to tie me up and hoist me aloft too, if the alternative were walking in shoes like that.
And that as far as projecting... well, when you are (as I seem to always be) the Identified Functional Person in any situation, always expected to take the initiative, solve the problem, fix the situation... the idea of being tied up and suspended such that no one can ask you to do anything about anything seems positively restful.
How's that for projection?
I'm not experienced, but I bet some of the appeal of bondage is to be released of the responsibility we always place upon ourselves, and instead be able to just let go ... A paradox that we have to be tied up to feel free, but intuitively it makers sense to me.
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