tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post5525372892728288447..comments2024-01-26T00:11:44.309-08:00Comments on let them eat pro-sm feminist safe spaces: Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant: For the SM-Feminists crowd ....vertehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568745576713009205noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-88136281617491685572012-06-23T11:41:13.326-07:002012-06-23T11:41:13.326-07:00The author is absolutely right, and there is no qu...The author is absolutely right, and there is no question.niroahttp://www.niroa.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-8941802011493161232007-07-11T21:11:00.000-07:002007-07-11T21:11:00.000-07:00"Wow. What a stunning piece of writing."Which one?..."Wow. What a stunning piece of writing."<BR/><BR/>Which one?<BR/><BR/>"We should think about expanding authorship, by the way..."<BR/><BR/>All for it here.Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-58426913480260444702007-07-11T13:46:00.000-07:002007-07-11T13:46:00.000-07:00Wow. What a stunning piece of writing. We should t...Wow. What a stunning piece of writing. We should think about expanding authorship, by the way...vertehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07568745576713009205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-14040710300547432452007-07-08T17:17:00.000-07:002007-07-08T17:17:00.000-07:00"I have to be human ALL the damn time, in sex, I h..."I have to be human ALL the damn time, in sex, I have NO desire to be. NONE. And there is that wild thrill, that primal something that really does just make me clock on so many levels it's, well, almost impossible to describe. But very few other things make me feel so alive as THAT feeling..."<BR/><BR/>Yeah. A lot of people talk about topping as this intense feeling of responsibility and this really intellectual thing and<BR/><BR/>often for me, it's just plain WHEN I GROW CLAWS AND TEETH.Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-62064711152599308962007-07-08T16:07:00.000-07:002007-07-08T16:07:00.000-07:00"No human is respectful and affirming all the time..."No human is respectful and affirming all the time. No human wants to be held up all the time, either, I don't think. Sometimes we want to lash out, or to feel small. I personally find it exhilarating to let that part of me exist, be, happen in safe environments."<BR/><BR/>Yep.<BR/><BR/>I just know this, rough sex for me is the ONLY kind that really does it for me...on all levels, in every way. I have to be human ALL the damn time, in sex, I have NO desire to be. NONE. And there is that wild thrill, that primal something that really does just make me clock on so many levels it's, well, almost impossible to describe. But very few other things make me feel so alive as THAT feeling...Renegade Evolutionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-24194015976364956252007-07-08T10:52:00.000-07:002007-07-08T10:52:00.000-07:00"Not everyone has the Maenad-song singing in their..."Not everyone has the Maenad-song singing in their heads; it's a scary thing to have, even as it's a sweet hot bloody call of the wild."<BR/><BR/>Yes.<BR/><BR/>And when you're a mild-mannered nerdy girl like I was... yee. ;)<BR/><BR/>"I think probably the most terror is in those who can hear the tune but can't bear to let themselves even consider going out into the wild."<BR/><BR/>Yes. I'm constantly startled by the number of virulently anti-SM people I run across who I assume are that way from ignorance, only to find they used to be us, wanted to be us, etc.Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-760704342202547222.post-78621227951013045212007-07-08T10:35:00.000-07:002007-07-08T10:35:00.000-07:00I thought you in particular might have useful thou...I thought you in particular might have useful thoughts about that.<BR/><BR/>One of the things that's one of my little hobbyhorses is striking the balance between the Apollonian and the Dionysian -- the rational and the ecstatic. I think the culture I live in sucks at finding a place for the ecstatic; look at how many of the traditional tools are or have been demonised (sex and sexuality, especially violent or utterly uninhibited sexuality; drug use; some genres of music; pain ...).<BR/><BR/>Not everyone <I>has</I> the Maenad-song singing in their heads; it's a scary thing to have, even as it's a sweet hot bloody call of the wild. And there's very little space for it, to learn how to have it without it being automatically damaging, which means -- if one trusts the myths on the subject -- that it comes out more and more savage in its restraints. And it's even more terrifying, I think, for the people who don't know the tune, who can't feel the deep drumbeat of the dark in the same way -- because there's no sense of <I>where this is coming from</I>.<BR/><BR/>I think probably the most terror is in those who can hear the tune but can't bear to let themselves even consider going out into the wild. Those civilised boundaries get clung to as something that keeps people human, I think, because embracing the bestial of the Maenad tests that humanness, tests whether it's possible to go there and come back, or go there and not do things one can't bear to have done in the light of day.Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.com