This is a topic that I have seen many places lately. The blog American spanking society has done a roundtable topic involving non-consensual spanking play and Fetlife has a few topics concerning the same thing. Even in a past post on Thomas's blog he described a punishment session that to an anon commenter he felt was "beating me into submission". So I thought I would write a post that talks about my feelings on the whole thing as well
In Fetlife it was asked if submission was to be "taken" or forced or if it is an act that should willing be given. For me I feel that in my relationship with Thomas there is no way that he can "beat me into submission" or force me to submit to him. I have already freely submitted myself to him. With that I might add that there are times that my moods and attitude go against that very nature of me that I gave to him. So yes in our relationship he can "Take" me or force me to submit at times when I am not strong enough to do it myself or when I am fighting him for control that ideally I really dont want to have. But in no way during those times do I ever feel that he is abusing me or going against my wishes even if he is at the time forcing me to comply when I dont really want to. I can put up a pretty good fight when I get in rebel mood. But ultimately it doesn't change the dynamics of our relationship just because at the time I dont want to do anything
It is a very difficult thing to explain to people who dont understand or dont care to understand. To them if someone says no then it is final and abuse if you use certain measures to get them to yield to your way. Even if those measures are as simple as a spanking or discipline of some sort until they comply. The difference I see here is that I am comfortable with Thomas and I know deep down that Thomas would never do anything to me to harm me in anyway. He wont physically or emotionally put me in any risk. I can give an example here but I am not so sure it will show exactly what I mean
Lets say Thomas and I go out to eat at a resturant one night. I am in a really bitchy mood and I take it out on the server. Giving the server a really hard time and even cussing the server out and things. Lets say that server gets fed up to the point that they grab me and march me to the backroom then yank down my pants and panties and give me a hard spanking. Now to me that would be assault. I would feel very violated
But lets say that instead of the server doing that Thomas had had enough of my bitchiness towards the server and he himself grabbed me and drug me to another room kicking and screaming then proceeds to yank my panties and pants down and give me a spanking. I wouldnt feel violated or assaulted. I would most likely be embarrassed yes but I wouldnt feel abused or anything. Both people did the exact same thing but the reactions and the feelings were different. Why because I gave Thomas my ultimate self every part of me is his. There is that blanket consent where I would expect and know that if I acted that way towards someone that I would be spanked even if at the time I am fighting it or going against it. The server was never given that part of me and I dont belong to him in any way shape or form. So yes my feelings would be alot different and I would really feel assaulted and not punished or sorry for what I did. In fact i would be madder then a hornet so to speak. After Thomas was done i would have felt disciplined and sorry and embarrassed for what I had done and would probably be very well behaved the rest of the dinner and night
So you can see there is a big difference in how we perceive things based on other factors. so someone that reads about a harsh spanking might jump to the conclusion that it is against my will or abusive when really it isnt anything close to that. There is a fine line between things. Ultimately the line revolves around trust love and understanding. I trust Thomas and love him to the point that I do not feel that I am in any danger of great bodily harm or anything from Thomas. With the server I would be in fear of that and wouldnt have any clue as to what his intentions with me would be and that would be a very scary place to be
The trust factor also goes to giving my "gift" of submission away. I don't feel that anyone can really "take" a persons submission. it has to be given freely at some point. Now I do believe that they can "take you" at times after that of course and after being given that gift freely then yes there are times when things can be forced or taken without verbal or any other kind of consent. Hence a discipline spanking or a sexual act. But the consent is still there until it is taken away if it ever is. I dont feel that there will be a time that I would take that gift away from Thomas. I don't feel that he will ever really make me do anything that I would perceive as against my will
Now if there ever comes a day when Thomas decides that he feels it is his right to demand me to do anything illegal or that would cause me great bodily or mental injury then as a person I still have every right to choose to leave and take my submission with me or what not. I don't feel that is an issue though so it is all good. If he would ever strike me elsewhere or hurt me in a way that goes against safe and sane then the trust and the understanding would be broken and my gift of submission would be voided. I dont see that ever happening either
So yes Thomas can and will "take me". He can force me to do certain things that i wouldnt normally want or just do on my own. But he doesn't have the kind of mind control and abusive state of mind that would cause me to be in fear or do things that I would have legal or other outcomes from. In other words i wouldnt kill someone in the act of submission or anything like that. I wouldnt do something to someone else based on fear of retaliation or punishment from Thomas. But if it involves me and my body then it is all his. He has been given that freely and that will not be taken from him because he spanks me to hard or decides to have sex with me when i am not in the mood or what not. That's a risk I signed up for when i took his ring. I may not have a collar and I may not be a slave so to speak. But he does own me and with that I mean my body as well. He cares too much about me and he does have my best interest in his heart. So I can trust that while I may not like everything he chooses to do I know it wont harm me and it is really more just uncomfortableness then it is anything else. It wont hurt me to be his
At the same time I know people are thinking that he has some kind of evil mind control or that I am going through Stockholm or something but I am not. I know the difference between submitting and being forced to things. I have been in abusive relationships that the person only had their interest in heart and i was in fear of my life and things. i dont feel that way in this relationship. He may rule the roost but he does it with love and trust. Something that cant be easily done by many. He doesn't have to force me through fear or beatings because there are none of those in our relationship there is only love caring and the occasional discipline and power exchanges and all are done with a level of mutual love respect and trust between the both of us
granted being a submissive is not an easy task. And it isnt something that you can just give away to anyone. There are times when i struggle with being a submissive and times when it just comes natural. But in all those times I receive a great deal of love and caring even when he is blistering my ass I know it is out of love and caring that it is done and not out of abuse or fear
I dont feel that Thomas can actually "rape" me either. When i gave myself to him that included my body for sex acts. Even if those sex acts are something I dont really like myself. Anal for instance isn't an act I just like. It isn't something that I wake up saying you know what I want anal right now. I would never say that and when he chooses to have anal sex it is a real power exchange between us and it is an act of submission. One that is again given freely even if at the time I plead and beg No because I dont want to. I most likely will always say no i dont want to. But i do submit and allow it to happen. Lucky for me he doesn't take this act of submission as a go ahead to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. He does at times
yes as in all power exchange relationships there are times when the submissive does things for her Dom just because he wants them and not so much she does. I do alot of things I dont like to do for him. But they are for him and him only since he is the one that i gave myself and ny submission to. And while I don't sop much like the sexual act itself I do like the feelings of total submission and knowing that I please him in some way even if that way isnt that pleasing to me. So in a way I still pleased in some way by knowing that I gave to him something that i wouldnt give someone else or something that I really wouldnt like other then I like that I gave him myself
Same with sleeping nude or bending over naked. For me that is a difficult task to just do. I have to be coerced into it but it doesn't really harm me in any way and in the end I feel more submissive which is a way I like to feel regardless of how I am Made to feel it
Thomas has a whole lot of stomping grounds with me. He has been given free reins of me really. That includes if he has a bad day at work and decides that it would make him feel better to grab me and march me to the garage baring my bottom and spanking me till he feels better then he has that right as well. Seldom would he take that up but it is there. I wouldnt feel abused in any way even if that were to happen. Now if he had a bad day at work and decided to back hand me or punch me to feel better then yeah I would feel abused and our relationship would very likely come to a halt real fast. But I know that he wouldnt slug me like that but he might to get frustration and anger out use me by spanking the daylights out of me. But he has that consent already so it wouldnt be anything more. I might cry and of course I will be sore and probably pretty bruised but I will feel alright knowing that I helped him feel better in a safe and sane way. My bottom will heal and it is made to take a good spanking. I would feel safe and protected the whole time as well
That's one of the places we feel connected to each other in that he has ultimate reins of my bottom and pretty much my body as long as the way he uses and takes me fits inside our terms of our dynamics. it isnt okay for him to take his frustration out on me by beating me for no reason unless that beating is within our set limits which spanking is. Punching kicking and slapping are not and I dont feel that i have to worry about that ever happening especially not when he does have a consensual outlet for that pent up anger to go that wouldnt make me feel abused or harmed
So I must say that there really is alot of consensual mom-consent within the realms of a healthy and happy relationship. And when those relationships entail BDSM or submission then the guys that are lucky enough to be trusted with that level of control have all they could probably need and want. What man wouldnt want a girl that would do anything for him. It is well within safe and sane given that there is trust and understanding as to the dynamics of the relationship and how it works for the two involved. I personally know some that wouldnt be okay with giving up there bottom to there man just because he had a bad day. But for me it comes easy., I would much rather offer him an outlet that wouldnt harm me then risk falling into an abusive relationship
I am not saying that just because I submit to thomas in many ways he could never abuse me. he could but I trust that he wouldnt and he has alot of leeway as far as how far he can go before I would perceive anything he does as abuse a;ot more then the average person I am friends with. Even in my friendships it is really rare that I would offer myself to that extreme to any of them. I wouldnt be able to trust that it would end there and that they wouldnt harm me in any other way. And I dont have that kind of level of love with just anyone in fact Thomas is the only one I have loved to the extent that I love him
So I guess these things and the issue of abuse is as simple as it is a difference of opinion as much as there are different people to think it. What works for one relationship wont work the same way in another and there is a such thing as consensual non-consent because i have gone through it a few times. In the end though the results far outweigh anything bad happening and really usually for the most part come out for the good of those involved. The only person that can distinguish abuse and forcing someone to actually do something against their will is the person it is happening to and the person doing it. What i perceive as abuse by someone I might not perceive as abuse by another. Certain levels of friendship come with certain levels of feelings as well. I can feel abused with an average guy I dont know but someone I know and have daily contact with can do the same thing and i perceive it as fun or playful
So it all does boil down to knowing the levels of where you are at with a person before forcing them to do anything including spanking or any other kind of contact such as hugging and things. I would feel a different way if a friend saw me and came up and hugged me then I would if some stranger off the street came up and hugged me. One would be perceived as creepy as the other was friendly and welcomed. So is the ways of my relationship with Thomas. What some might think is bending me to his will or abuse really isnt that to me because ultimately it is my will.