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Male Chastity, Dominance, and Submission

by Sarah on July 9, 2010

In a kind of inces­tu­ously male chastity way, I want to put my slant on an excel­lent blog post by Thumper, ‘Push me, please’.

Apart from the fact he’s absolutely cor­rect in the nice things he says about me (yes, this hubris with my tongue stuck very firmly in my cheek), he raises a very inter­est­ing point, which, in my hum­ble way, I’d boil down to the ques­tion of does grant­ing con­trol also nec­es­sar­ily involve sub­mis­sion and domination?

I know this is a fre­quently dis­cussed topic, at least here in the real world where the fan­tasy of female supe­ri­or­ity is clearly seen as just that – a fan­tasy – but I think some use­ful per­spec­tives came out of Thumper’s post and from the com­ments that fol­lowed (incidentally,if you really want to yank a true female supremacist’s chain, point out their believ­ing females are supe­rior to males by virtue of their genetic her­itage is qual­i­ta­tively no dif­fer­ent from say­ing white peo­ple are supe­rior to black ones, or round-eyed ones supe­rior to slant-eyed ones. It’s amus­ing to watch them try to ratio­nalise their big­otry with all man­ner of illogic, stu­pid­ity and, finally, ad-hominem attacks).

For Thumper, male chastity nec­es­sar­ily involves sub­mis­sion, because that’s how he’s feel­ing. You can’t argue with feel­ings. If some­one says, “I’m feel­ing this, that, and the other” you can’t refute them, because feel­ings are inter­nal, per­sonal and entirely subjective.

Note this is not the same as say­ing your feel­ing about some­thing is nec­es­sar­ily cor­rect. So, for exam­ple, if you say,“I just feel the Earth is flat”, your feel­ing is inar­guable; but your con­clu­sion is demon­stra­bly wrong. It’s the same for those silly female suprema­cists, too: you can’t argue with the fact they feel women are “supe­rior”, but when it comes to demon­strat­ing it as fact, or even pro­vid­ing evi­dence for it, they sim­ply fail (oh, and how).

An inter­est­ing ques­tion, then, and I don’t know the answer so I’m not being rhetor­i­cal, is can sub­mis­sion and dom­i­na­tion occur inde­pen­dently? Mean­ing, if Thumper feels he’s sub­mit­ting in his male chastity, but his lady doesn’t feel she’s dom­i­nat­ing, where are they? My guess is both are true, since both are just feel­ings and ‘twixt the ears.

This is an impor­tant point, because, if both can be true, it shows quite con­vinc­ingly nei­ther is nec­es­sary for male chastity, not in any objec­tive sense, at any rate.

Some­one also asked the other day, how do I rec­on­cile my claims of equal­ity with my con­sen­sual con­trol of John’s orgasms and his male chastity? I’ve never actu­ally made this claim so far as I remem­ber, in any case. And if I have, I’ve been sloppy with my lan­guage, because prov­ing equal­ity would be equiv­a­lent to dis­prov­ing inequal­ity, and that’s not pos­si­ble, just like it’s not pos­si­ble to dis­prove Russell’s Teapot.

I merely ask the female suprema­cists to pro­duce evi­dence to sup­port the claims they’re mak­ing – they make the claims and it’s incum­bent on them to sup­port them if they expect to be taken seri­ously. What we do know empir­i­cally is soci­eties tend to be more peace­ful, suc­cess­ful and just when we assume equal­ity in the absence of evi­dence to the contrary.

In any case, where is the con­tra­dic­tion in the notion of con­sen­sual con­trol and equality?

I used an anal­ogy with Thumper yes­ter­day to explain how, for us, male chastity doesn’t have to involve sub­mis­sion and dom­i­na­tion. And the same anal­ogy also addresses the point about con­trol and equality.

John and I work out. We have a well-equipped gym in our garage. John works out alone, but I get him to “spot” me and help me along.

And he makes me work hard. I get tired and hot and cranky and try all my usual girly-bullshit tricks to try to get him to let me off lightly.

But he won’t. He doesn’t take my shit and he “makes” me lift heavy. He gives no quar­ter, and really, I know that’s best for me and he’s being an uncom­pro­mis­ing bas­tard in the inter­ests of my long-term hap­pi­ness with my shape, weight and health.

Yet at the time, I really do want him to be nice, fluffy and kind, just like men do with their women when male chastity really starts to bite.

And it’s entirely con­sen­sual. John has been quite clear in say­ing if I don’t obey the “rules” and lift like I’m told and eat like I’m told, he won’t do it with me. If I want the ben­e­fits, I have to obey the “rules”.

Thi­sis not dom­i­nance and sub­mis­sion, though. This is John help­ing me do some­thing for my long term ben­e­fit and plea­sure that I’d find dif­fi­cult or impos­si­ble to do by myself.

Sub­mis­sion, dom­i­na­tion and equal­ity sim­ply don’t come into it. They’re irrelevant.

And with us it’s very much the same with male chastity.

I’d be very sur­prised to find we were alone in this.

P.S. Today sees the first issue of “Some­thing for the Week­end” going out, a weekly newslet­ter avail­able to every­one who’s elected to receive my free Chastity Guide. So if you’re not on the list, I rec­om­mend you get on it now.

P.P.S. A plug for the recently res­ur­rected Male Chastity Forum. To quote Thumper a sec­ond time:

One of the things I espe­cially liked about MCF back in the day (before it was hacked or what­ever) was the seem­ingly large num­ber of gay device wear­ers who were there. Maybe that’s what kept the French maids out. Any­way, it was a great place and, hope­fully, it will be one again. I encour­age you to go check it out and, if you’re so inclined, cre­ate an account and add your two bits. Unless you’re wear­ing a device and a dress right now. In which case, there’s already a large and vibrant com­mu­nity out there for you (and you know where it is)

Not, of course, that there’s any­thing wrong with that….”

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Thumper July 9, 2010 at 3:17 pm

You left off the "not that that's anything wrong with that" part!
I don't begrudge anyone their freaky kink, I'd just rather not have to wallow around in it while indulging in mine…

Sarah July 9, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Well, yes I did. I thought it was obvious – only a retard would think you meant anything else. However… yesterday showed me how many retards there are out there… so I’ll edit it ;-)

Thumper July 9, 2010 at 9:29 pm

Never underestimate the ability of others to be stupid…
And I was just pulling your chain. I didn't really care that you left that part out.

Michael_X July 9, 2010 at 9:34 pm

Of course the big problem is that people use these words, "submission" and "dominance" in multiple often conflicting ways.
 
For the BDSM play community they are roles they enjoy, take on and put off, switch around at times, and they involve a lot of ritualised behaviours.
 
For the M/s and D/s lifestyle communities they have more to do with authority, power, control and the responsibilities that those entail.
For third wave feminists they are about the patriarchy and abuse.
One could go on forever.
As someone whose first degree was in biology I tend to look at them as fundamentally about evolved survival strategies that are wired into the nervous system that in vertebrates are essentially emotions. I'm using the term emotion as it is commonly used in affect neuroscience which is a little different from day to day use. They are fast response programs that prepare an organism to meet an environmental challenge and that preparation includes changes in the way the brain functions and the behaviour that results. As survival programs their successful deployment is accompanied by positive feelings and that is what leads people to seek them out.
Humans make disentangling what is going on almost impossible  because we live in social groups with a huge intertwining of culture.
One of the big problems the latter causes when it comes to something like chastity play is our tendency to look at behaviour and extrapolate from it to what the motivations that underlie it are, and people often get this wrong. In fact what they attribute it to tells us more about them than about what is actually going on.
An example, decades ago I was engaged in some fun with a couple. She was the “slave” and was sucking her "Masters" cock and I started to beat her derrière with a tawse. He looked a little worried and motioned for me to stop which I did. At that point she stopped, gave him a look and said something, I forget what, and he suggested I continue. It was suddenly very clear who was the dominant of that couple and it wasn't the one getting a BJ from his kneeling naked slavegirl.
Now the play BDSM community defines dominance and submission by behaviours and roles so to them chastity play looks like the keyholder is the dominant and the locked the submissive. I suspect the man or woman on the street has a not dissimilar outlook and certainly for the majority of pro-femdoms and their clients that too is the case.
Can dominance and submission exist in isolation. Yes and no. There have to be, at least, two people. The programs don't work without the social element. Having said that it is possible to use a person substitute be it fantasy, fiction, porn, an internet mistress whatever. It is however certainly possible, and common, for one person in a relationship to experience dominance or submission whilst the other doesn't. Trouble is it doesn't work well. The two emotional programs are designed to work together. The D/s keyholder going through the motions is ultimately more frustrating, in a bad way, than someone refusing to play.
Anyway I've rambled enough. My view on this topic is what makes it dominance and submission or not is whether the individuals concerned are motivated to activate and enjoying the underlying emotional programs or not and even then that can be trumped by an underlying power exchange structure. You can't tell that from the activities or display behaviours involved.
 
Michael

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