03.30.08

Back Home for a While

Posted in BDSM at 12:30 pm by hersforever

Well I am back home in the Northwest again.  Sorry I have not written, but I was on a business trip last week through the southern and central San Joaquin valley in California.  If you have been reading my posts, you may have noticed that I spend most of the summer traveling for work, and this was the first trip of this year.

When I flew in last night it was snowing.  E picked me up at the airport and took me out to dinner, since I was not able to get anything to eat before my flight left Sacramento.  She dressed up for me, and put on her trashiest clothing and put on more makeup than usual for me.  I am finding that I like her a little trashy. smile

After a nice dinner, we headed home, and I started a fire in the living room, and E allowed me to rub her feet.  The more I rub her feet, the more I find it helps me to center myself and allow my submission to bloom.  I am not sure why it is, but sitting on the floor at her feet and carefully rubbing her feet returns me to my  submissive mindset.

My job requires me to be a type A personality, and portray a chauvinistic male machismo.  There are few women working at the upper levels, and a lot of woman working at the minimum wage level, so there is an unspoken feeling of male superiority throughout the industry.  When I travel, I flip into this mindset, and I find that giving E a foot rub on my return returns me to where I want to be mentally.

After a good foot rub, we headed into the bedroom to snuggle and be close.  I love to be next to her, with my head against her breasts with my head angled back, exposing my throat and collar to her.  For years, I did not like snuggling, and I felt uncomfortable.  During that time, she wanted to put her head on my chest and be comforted.  I think I was uncomfortable because I subconsciously wanted to be the one being comforted not giving the comfort.  Now, as I lie next to her with my neck exposed, and she softly pets my head, I feel a deep contentment and I relax in her love and acceptance.

03.22.08

Returning to Impact Play

Posted in BDSM, DS, Domination, FLR, Female Led Marriage, Love & Sex, Loving Female Authority, Submission, submissive at 2:53 pm by hersforever

I am not a pain slut, I am not a masochist, but I do reach subspace through pain.

On Thursday night, E and I played for the first time in months. Ever since E told me she felt I was ready for her collar, I have felt more submissive. I have also spent more time thinking on my submission, and reading about other sub’s submission. As you may have noticed, I have spent a lot more time writing to this blog than before.

Well, on Thursday, after I got home from work, I talked to E about what I have been reading and thinking about. She smiled at me, and told me she was both happy and proud of me. For a while now, after I get home, I have been spending most of the evening on my computer, with the exception of making dinner for us. But ever since that eventful night, I have been spending my evenings next to her on the couch, just trying to be near her, wanting her soft touch on my head and body. To just be held and comforted by her.

So after dinner, she looked at me and asked if there was anything I wanted to that night, since there was nothing interesting on TV. I looked up at her, and asked “Can we play a little tonight?” She smiled and said that she would love to, and that she wanted me to go upstairs to our bedroom and get a shower ready for her.

We often shower together, and it is a special time for us. I help her scrub down with body wash, and ex foliate her skin, getting places that she has a hard time doing herself. She also helps me by helping me shave, and will often scrub my psoriasis to help remove the excess skin I develop.

After our shower, she had me lay down on the bed, and began to get all of our impact play toys. Our floggers, riding crop, paddle and spoon, and finally her rattan cane. She began slowly with the floggers and over the course of about an hour, she worked up to the cane. Now if you have never been hit with a cane, let me try to describe the sensation. When used on the fleshy part of the butt, the cane can be a light sting to a white-hot searing pain that fades with a warm glow. If you want serious pain, I have not yet found anything that matches the cane across your thighs where you thighs and butt meet.

After 45 minutes or so, while E used the floggers, wooden paddle, and spoons, I began to feel floaty and and a little cold all over, which for me is a sign of major endorphins running all though my body. I know that when I start giggling after an impact, that I am passing into subspace. Now, while I am in subspace, pain looses its intensity, and I tend to feel like I am floating along in a haze. Only one thing cuts through the fog, and that is the cane.

Even when I am firmly in subspace, the cane can bring me right back to ground, especially when the impacts are less than ten to fifteen seconds apart. If they are longer, then each impact in absorbed by the fog, and I will continue to float, but then they come closer together, each one builds off the last, and until all I am aware of is a searing white hot intense pain across the point of impact. During this nothing else matters, it is my entire existence. The movements that my body makes, and the sounds that I make are completely beyond my conscious control.

In the past, I have tended to safeword around this time, but Thursday during the initial impacts of that sadistic implement, I fully submitted. I told myself that “she is done, when she feels I am done, her decision not mine.” After a few strikes, E stopped checked in with me, and asked if I wanted to safeword. I managed to mumble out, that it was her decision on when to stop, and that I have no say in the matter. I remember E smiling at me, and said “Okay, I want to push your limits a little.” She then asked “How long does it take for the pain to fade from each hit?” And I told her about 10 to 15 seconds. The then began to strike me firmly first once every 15 seconds and then began to increase the frequency up to one strike every 5 seconds. I am not sure how many times she kept up that pace, as all I was aware off by then was the pain coursing though me.

Suddenly it was over, and I was left floating in a reddish haze, my body twitching. And then very carefully, she covered me with a blanket, and got into bed and began to hold me close to her.

The pain is not something I like in of itself, but the time when she holds me after she is done, is one of the best times of my life. As the pain fades to a glow, I feel content, protected, and loved. I want to climb inside of her and be enveloped by her warmth. This time more than others, I feel my submission deep inside of me, and I am happy that I can make her happy.

The length of our aftercare varies, and often on a weekend, it might last equal to or more than the length of the impact play itself, but on a week night, when I have to work in the morning, it is a little briefer. With E spending the time to make sure I am okay, and bring me back a little from the deep subspace she has elevated me too.

So I have come to the realization that the pain itself is not what I like, rather, I view it as a conduit or road for me to travel to reach the place inside of myself that long to be.

hersforever

03.21.08

Male Orgasm Denial and Selfish Altruism

Posted in BDSM, Domination, Love & Sex, Loving Female Authority, Submission, kink, submissive at 9:21 am by hersforever

In a Female Led Relationship, male orgasm denial is one of the woman’s more powerful tools.  She controls sexual access for the man, and in situations where a chastity device is used, she effectively controls all forms of sexual access.  It can be used as a motivator, punishment, a reminder of status, and in some cases, even as a reward.  But at the end of the day, do the behaviors and actions this methodology create lead to true submission, or just selfish altruism?

Selfish altruism is the idea that there is no true “selfless altruism.”  Selfish altruism argues that we behave in an altruistic manner to gain benefits in the future.  That by acting in an apparent selfless way, we will gain back a benefit equal or greater to the current act though gratitude.

Sex is a powerful male driver.  We are hardwired to to maximize our reproductive potential.  An easy way to see this drive in a physical sense, is to compare the testicle size of all the major great apes.  At the bottom end of the spectrum are gorillas, who have little to no competition within the troop for sexual access, due to their social structure of one male to many females in the troop.  Orangutans have the next largest testicle size, and again their social structure helps to reduce the competition between males for the same female during estrus.  The ape with the largest testicles are the chimps, who have large mixed troops, and when a female enters estrus, all of the males in the troop will try to mate with her.  Humans, have the second largest testicle size after the chimps.  This may indicate that we will tend to pair-bond, but still have a drive to mate with as many females as possible.

FLR writers are well aware of this drive, and often remind readers that as soon as the man achieves orgasm, they are hardwired to roll over, and go to sleep.  Their argument is that by keeping the man in a constant state of arousal, his focus becomes more and more intensified on his woman.  This focus manifests itself in submission, doing all that she asks eagerly and anticipating her needs and desires, in an attempt to show that he is worthy of fathering her children.  Putting this in other words, the submissive man, while undergoing orgasm denial will become more submissive and apparently altruistic towards his woman in the relationship, not selflessly, but rather as a means to achieve orgasm.

Hersforever

03.20.08

Wife Led Marriage, Sissification, and Forced Feminization

Posted in BDSM, FemDom, Life in General, Love & Sex, Loving Female Authority, Submission, submissive at 10:18 am by hersforever

I have been reading a lot of other Female/Wife Led Marriage (FLM) men’s blogs lately, and observed the large percentage of enforced feminization and sissification in practice.

E and I have talked about this topic, and she has made it clear that this is not what she wants.  Now, I will admit, that I do wear panties from time to time, and sometimes she requests that I do.  But, this is as far as she wants to go.  The has told me that the idea of me forced feminization and sissification is a turn off, because it reinforces the stereotype of the submissive woman.

I will try to explain her meaning.  To her, being a woman is a wonderful thing.  She is the origin of new life, the provides the resources for that new life to grow, she controls sexual access, she has the well-being of both her, her husband, and her family at heart.  She will make decisions to ensure the family’s success and happiness.  This makes her strong and able.

In contrast, sissification and forced feminization of men, degrades her, as it implies that the woman is inferior.  At a fundamental level, sissification says that for a man to be submissive, he must become a woman.  However, this idea of womanhood is exactly opposite of what she is.

Now, it is possible to make the argument that feminization and sissification is a gender role reversal of 1950s U.S. cultural norms.  This argument feels better, in the sense that these cultural norms are no longer viewed as valid in post-modern U.S. society, and therefore are not demeaning towards women, since they are no longer expected to comply to those standards.

However, this idea will not work for us, since she views these ideas as wrong to begin with, so any attempt to return them to social norms in any fashion is unacceptable.  We also feel that even if you try to only apply these ideas, customs, and behaviors to men, you still can’t escape the deep rooted female bias.

So our FLR is still evolving, and will continue to develop into a unique microcosm of society in which we are both happy, content, and deeply loving of each other.

03.17.08

Masculinity and Submission

Posted in BDSM, FemDom, Loving Female Authority, Submission, submissive at 11:33 am by hersforever

E asked me a question the other day that deserves some discussion.  “How does submission make you feel more masculine?”

When she first ask this, my first thoughts went back to my formal anthropological education, and I began to look at the question in terms of reproduction and genetic propagation.  My first thought was that submitting can be seen as a form of protection and support, allowing any children to reach maturity and reproduce themselves.  Thereby being one cultural method of genetic continuation.  Since many of the traits that western culture views as “masculine” are behaviors that have their roots in propagation, I think this argument has some validity.

Another way that submission can make a man feel more masculine, is the amount of braveness and internal strength it takes to fly in the face of expected social norms.  Many submissive men I have talked to, or read read their thoughts, talk about the amount of time it took for them to fully accept their submission.  That it took strength and dedication to overcome years of social conditioning.  As bravery and strength are both traits traditionally associated with masculinity, it is easy to see how this internal fight can be viewed in a positive masculine context.

These are just some thoughts.  I know that there are more arguments to be made, both for and against, but these are the first to come to my mind.

Hersforever

03.15.08

A New Day of Submission

Posted in BDSM, Domination, Loving Female Authority, Submission, submissive at 8:03 pm by hersforever

Ever since about November, I have not been wearing my collar at home. In December, I had a regression, and my fear of loosing control over my actions surfaced, and E and I had a argument over D/s. As a result of that, E told me that submitting was my decision, and that she would not force me to do what I don’t want to do, since D/s is concentual.

E had surgery on her knee to repair a torn meniscus in early February. As a result, she was unable to do much, and had to rely on me for most of the house work, cooking, and errands. I did not realize it at the time, but I went about all that I was asked to do with a smile and energy. If I was doing something, and she asked for something, I jumped up and quickly did it without thinking. This situation lasted for about three weeks, with her gaining strength slowly in her knee. We both joke that she is a slow healer…

Well, once she was feeling better, we went out to dinner as a belated private birthday party for me. When we were finished, she told me she had something important and exciting to tell me. She said that she was very proud of how I had been acting, and said that if I wanted, she felt I was ready to be permanently collared.

Now, I know that I want to be collared, but I also have been struggling with it as well, my emotions and fears rising and falling like a sine wave. As she told me that she wanted to collar me, I felt a wave of excitement, love, acceptance, and contentment wash over me.

I am still frightened that I will freak out, and try to push back against giving up control, but I really want to make this work. I have begun wearing my training collar again at home. And I am finding myself needing to be near her, being held by her, kneeling before her, and doing everything in my power to make her as happy as I can.

I am still afraid of rejection, that she will think I am weak, abnormal, and not a man for submitting to her, even as I know that she wants me to submit. I have to believe, that with everything, practice makes perfect, and that the more I focus on submitting as much as I can, the easier it will become and that my fears will subside and be shown to be irrational.