This.
"Kink shaming is fucking ridiculous. You can be a feminist and enjoy degradation or being choked. Who the fuck are you to tell people that the things they enjoy are abuse if they’re consenting and their partner and them have complete trust and understanding? BDSM is NOT anti women. It’s not unhealthy, and it doesn’t have anything to do with abuse. It has everything to do with people exploring themselves and enjoying different sexual aspects in a safe space. If someone’s sex life doesn’t affect you stay then fuck out of it. WOMEN WHO ENJOY BEING SUBMISSIVE AND MEN WHO ENJOY BEING DOMINANT CAN ALSO BE FEMINISTS."
--via tumblr
I want to add that there are men who enjoy being submissive and women who enjoy being dominant as well -- and that shouldn't be judged either.
--via tumblr
I want to add that there are men who enjoy being submissive and women who enjoy being dominant as well -- and that shouldn't be judged either.
8 years ago
Well said.
And I spent pretty much my entire sex life fighting against that stuff, which seemed to always want to surface every time the blood is up, turning a grab for the neck into a hand on their shoulder at the last second, or struggling NOT to fuck them even harder when I hear a squeal of discomfort when I plunged in a little too deep, or rearing back to smack an ass but turning it into a more gentle grope instead. Always fighting those urges because I thought it meant there was something wrong with me-- I was raised by a strong mother, a feminist by most measures, and all my life I've been interested in and looked up to strong, confident women. So why did I have to struggle with wanting to "abuse" them when I was having sex? Why did it just keep rising up time and again? Was I some closet misogynist, in denial of my true nature? I really felt a lot of conflict about it and didn't have anyone to talk to about it, either.
But now while I still don't really have any experience with this sort of thing, I do have a much more nuanced understanding of this kind of "play", thanks to the patience and candor of a few folks willing to discuss it with me here, in particular, and I don't beat myself up for struggling with these urges anymore. I get that it's a natural outgrowth of these traditional gender roles, and sometimes sexual "play" means at terms either amplifying or subverting those gender roles, the biological imperatives behind our mating, and so I'm confident I'm not some "sicko" that wants to abuse women, I just have a natural dominant streak (during sex, I'm pretty laid back otherwise) and while i may not get to express that, ever, it doesn't mean there's something wrong with feeling that way.
I feel like I've grown a bit as a person from that realization, and it's been an important step in my journey of self-discovery. It's late in life for that sort of thing, I guess, but things happen when they happen, nothing for it.
Good post, though, sorry for the long comment but it's something I've thought a lot about.
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