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by DaddyO

I have often heard submissive women say: "I am a sub, but I don't submit to just anyone."

Well, let me let you in on a little secret... I will dominate pretty much anyone who allows me! (This doesn't mean just anyone can be my submissive, however)

I used to have the opinion that I could not label myself a "Dom" unless someone was actively submitting to me. I felt unless my dominance was consensually agreed upon by a submissive actively submitting to me, that my "domination" would be non-consensual. But I have had a change of heart. I have now decided that if there is no one actively submitting to me, I can still be "dominant" because I have chosen to subject that control over myself.

That is very consensual!

I control and do the things I want, therefore I am dominant! It is a sort of "dominant masturbation" if you insist on naming it.

So, yes...man, woman, trans; straight, gay, bi, pan-- it makes no difference: I will dominate you--if you allow me to.

Here is why it is so easy for me: In my vision and understanding of D/s, the Dom decides what happens after the sub sets forth the parameters. Since everyone has something to offer me, if I am the one making the decisions about what those somethings are, it may not please the submissive or be their cup of tea, but if it fits within the agreed upon parameters, I will gladly dominate you if you let me!

Now, that being said, I believe the act of submission is an amazing gift for any Daddy, Dom or Master to cherish.

Yeah, I said it. I value it as an amazing gift. Here I’ll say it again:

"submission is a gift"

If you, as the submissive, don’t see it that way, then fine; but if you expect me to devalue it by not considering it as such, it means you are topping from the bottom.

By the way, there is actually nothing wrong with "topping from the bottom." It is actually how Top/bottom encounters should work.

"Dominating while submitting" is a different story. Remember, I do not expect anyone (regardless of how submissive they are) to submit to me. It’s a gift. One must not expect gifts.

For those of you who think that me considering submission as a gift is placing the sub above the Dom, I didn't do that at all. "Dominance" is a gift too. Dom and sub are equals.

by DaddyO

When you utter "one twue way" when mocking people's definition of submission, you are crusading for ambiguity surrounding its definition and this may not have the desired effects you hope.

"One twue way" basically says: "There is no true way to submit!"

Really?

Let us look at the dictionary definition:

sub·mit [səbˈmit] verb

Accept or yield to the authority or will of another person.

sub·mis·sion [səbˈmiSHən] noun

The action or fact of accepting or yielding to the will or authority of another person.

What we really should be mocking:

I am not saying that the countless ways dominance and submission are carried out and displayed should be rigidly defined. The specifics to what requests are to be obeyed, the nuances regarding discipline, what roles the one in the submissive role agrees to fill and exactly what the one in the dominant role may control are as endless as there are individual people.

Therefore it becomes asinine to label any D/s relationship the "one true way."

Let me make this clear, I am only saying it is unwise to mock the definition of what submission is.

There is only one true way a person can submit: By accepting or yielding to another person's authority and/or will; essentially by doing what they've been instructed to do.

The particular desires and commands of the person in the dominant role being fulfilled and obeyed are what constitutes whether or not it is submission. No one is blindly implying these desires are kind, fair, compassionate or even practical. They may not even be possible! But that doesn't change the definition of submission. It simply exposes whether or not the person in the dominant role is a selfish prick.

If the requirements of the one in the dominant role are too demanding, triggering, strenuous, traumatizing or unfair, the one hoping to submit SHOULD NOT DO IT! It's not a fit.

But having an asshole Dom or relationships not being a fit doesn't change what the definition of submission is. But it certainly should influence a person's decision regarding submission.

Why it is important to have a clear definition

In BDSM, since we are conceptualizing a relationship based on "D/s" it is important that we have a very clear definition as to what we're referencing by the letters "D" and "s."

I consider it a disservice to people wanting to submit to be given vague definitions for the very thing they claim to want to do. Unless it is clearly defined, how is one to aspire to do it?

The demands of the Dom do not change the definition of the word

Choosing not to submit doesn't mean you are "wrong" or a "bad submissive." It simply means you are unwilling to submit to the requirements that particular person has set forth. Making judgments on the requirements of the one you've placed in the dominant role is essential in deciding whether or not you should submit.

Making sound judgments are also important to avoid any D/s arrangement from becoming unintentionally abusive or unknowingly non-consensual. This is why the one submitting is equipped with the ultimate power to decide on whether or not to submit.

In addition to judging the moral merits of the requests for submission, the one in the submissive role has to decide to what degree their obedience to the one in the dominant role's requests are hampering or enhancing their own pleasure, because we know that the one in the dominant role's pleasure is being fulfilled.

Because no one in the dominant role is perfect, the person wanting to submit may at times rightly choose to disobey. In these scenarios the disobedience is a virtuous decision. Justified. Moral. Right. But not submission.

No one in the submissive role is perfect either, therefore someone submitting may at times wrongly disobey.

But before passing judgment or taking any agreed upon disciplinary action, the one in the dominant role should review whether or not it fits within everyone's negotiated boundaries.

The choices regarding virtuous disobedience and disciplinary actions ideally should be done using non-violent communication techniques. Whether it's with a safe word or by direct communication depends on how communication within the relationship dynamic is set up.

No one needs to submit. And there is nothing wrong with not submitting to someone. Only when you've agreed to submit and then don't, is when it becomes disobedience. 

The decision to submit or not places the ultimate control firmly in the hands of the one accepting the submissive role.

People labeling themselves "Submissive" often add the disclaimer:

"I am submissive...but not to just anyone"

This is dangerous because indeed there is no "twue sub" definition. What exactly does being "a Submissive" mean?

Well it could be...

"I choose to submit to _____."

or
"I enjoy doing acts of service for people."

or
"I enjoy submitting when it's someone I care for."

or
"I wish to submit to my lover as an act of love."

or
"In life I find I like to follow more than lead."

or
"I like to give up control in the bedroom."

or
None of the above.

or
Something else entirely!

More than likely it doesn't mean...

"I submit to everyone."

But it could! Especially to the "twue Doms" out there, which includes uneducated newbies, abusers, predators and other horny and sadistic guys.

So the need for this disclaimer would be eliminated if we weren't so vague as to what the definition of submission is. The word should seldom be used as an adjective, and using it as a descriptive noun is even more dangerous, considering the multiple dimensions surrounding the dynamics kinky relationships take on (of which D/s is only one of).

If one still must choose to identify that way, clarification becomes a huge responsibility both for the Submissive (to define) and for anyone wanting to dominate them (to understand).

Practicing submission doesn't require a "Dominant", but it does require judgment as to who a person wishes to submit to and to which things fall within everyone's boundaries.

Regardless of how "dominant" people you encounter are, everyone has things they want other people to do for them. Therefore we all have choices to make as to how much submission we want to give of ourselves towards someone else.

How much submission?

Submission assigns significance to the one who is acting in a dominant role by validating them and placing value on their wishes. Therefore the one in the dominant role is required to make sure their requests are worthy.

Notice the key words here:

-Validation

-Value

-Worth

-Significance

These words are traditionally cherished by those in submissive roles, but I believe they are just as vital to the happiness of people in dominant roles too.

That's the beautiful thing about submissive actions: they assign value to others. Making judgments to submit to someone places a value upon that person, and therefore becomes an amazing way to demonstrate love towards them; especially for those who value being valued!

Not all love is submissive

I have had people who wish to submit to me do things thinking they are being submissive towards me. Their actions were sweet. They were kind. They were useful. They were even done with a submissive intent. But they were not acts of submission because there were not things I had requested.

Again, just because these actions did not fall within the definition of "submission" it does not diminish their importance. They were just a different type of endearment.

Taking off another person's shoes when asked is a submissive act. Putting them away when you noticed they were left in the middle of the room isn't.

If the one in the dominant role values one of these actions higher or lower that the other it doesn't change the definition of submission, it just means that one of the actions was deemed more important.

TL;DR

There is no "one twue Dom" or "one twue sub" but there sure as hell is one true definition for submitting.

a rebuttal by DaddyO

You can’t submit to me, can you?

For I need you to respect, honor and obey me. I want you to submit to my will for our mutual benefit. Can you do that for me?

I am not a service Top, but I am a service Dom. This means I do want what you want, I just want it played out the way I want it, and done the ways I desire.

I do not want the person who submits to me to be intellectually inferior. I prefer to consider each of us intellectual equals who may just have different knowledge to offer in unique areas and who can learn from one another.

I want someone who is proud to serve me. I want someone who will stand beside me as comfortably as she kneels before me. I want to not only help you grow in your submission to me, but for each of us to help one another grow in our deepening D/s connection.

I want you to be obedient to me. If I make unfair requests, call me on it. But as the person you submit too, I don’t want to have to prove myself any more than I already have in order to earn your submission, nor do I want to force myself by using violence or physical means to get you to obey me. These methods may be used as ways to dominate you in physical S&M scene play, but logic and reason should be the only weapons needed to gain your obedience.

Both of our lives at times have been car crashes, and we have had our share of bad luck, but under my direction I want to take charge and start making decisions that will uplift both of us. This truly excites me. All it takes is for you to allow me to do truly do that. Please do not retreat as soon as it starts to feel uncomfortable and you sense me exerting more control.

I am a "Daddy" Dom and therefore playful and sometimes juvenile. Yes I play games and the world is my playground. Especially FetLife. I want you to be submissive and enjoy that playful attitude with me. That is one huge reason I desire the babygirl archetype.

Yes, I am a hedonist, so my preferences change depending on who I am hitting on. This is because each and every person is different and I see different roles for everyone in our lives. This applies not just to our lovers either. Every person in our lives has different things to offer us and different temperaments for us to adjust to and utilize.

Sometimes these lovers and play partners will seem to directly benefit me more than you. Other times it will be obvious I am arranging encounters for your paramount enjoyment. It matters not who benefits more, for in our polyamorous arrangement both your happiness and pleasure and my happiness and pleasure equally benefit our D/s partnership. Due to our D/s arrangement, and for me to successfully display compersive feelings, all such decisions must be made by me.

I want someone to submit to me who is fully aware of my wants and needs and knows exactly how to meet them. I think I spell them out pretty clearly, and when I don't, I am more than willing to take the blame for less than stellar communication.

I want my food cooked the way I want it cooked, not the way you think I would like it. I want your perfume to be the perfume I pick out for you, not the perfume you feel good wearing because it is a popular brand. I want your hair to be the length I want to see it at even if you like it better a different way.

Yes, I want to know when you are uncomfortable doing something for me, or if you are allergic to the perfume I choose for you, or if you don't know the recipe for a food I enjoy. And you can give me all kinds of input that you don't think you look good with long hair, but I want it to be clear, I want to be the one making that decision. More often than not I will make the decision you also want. Remember my statement earlier about being a "service Dom"?

I offer consistency. This is extremely difficult for me to do when you change your mind about how much dominance you will allow me. If that is always fluctuating, I cannot be consistent in my domination. I need consistency from you too.

I want commitment. I need to know I’m part of something. Just as you desire the knowledge that I am there for you to build you up and quell your insecurities, I need to know you are counting on me to make those important decisions for us.

I need someone to dominate, and to be able to give and deny you things. Yes, sometimes you must sacrifice. The responsibility is mine. I want to be the one to accept the responsibility and in doing so when things work out positively, you will get the accolades. When things work out less fortunate, then I will take the blame. Submit and give it to me! Allowing me to be the decision maker for us completes our D/s dynamic.

I do not like subtle attempts at manipulation one minute and then when I hold fast to my word, hearing cries of "you don't compromise", the next.

And I am sick of my many attempts to show true rational compromise going unrecognized, or worse yet, being denied they even happen.

I need the person I dominate to understand what honor is and to always act honorably towards me.

Please respect me in public.

Do not interrupt me or answer questions that I have asked another person. I may want to know what that person's answer was. When I want your opinion or answer to a question, I will surely ask it. And you know I quite often do!

Respect me on FetLife. Do not post things contradictory to me. If I say something you disagree with, come to me and discuss it.

Respect me among our friends. Defend my opinions and decisions or keep quiet and consult with me in private.

Honesty is so important; whether good or bad. I need to know the person I dominate will tell me the truth when I ask her for her opinion, and not just what she thinks I want to hear.

So that’s why I’ll wait and hold steady until this person comes along or someone I already know hones these traits and displays them to me.

*Fetlife specific reasons

I want you to enjoy my cock all the time. Not just when it is inside you hitting your G-spot. Not just when it is hard. Please respect my issues with erectile dysfunction and the fact that I am of average to below average size, and realize that though my insecurities are many I still feel confident enough to display my sexuality freely online just as any other person. Why is it that when a chubby woman poses naked it is deemed as promoting "positive body image" but when a chubby man with an average to below average size penis displays himself in an artistic manner, it isn't?

I also enjoy putting pictures up of my various play partners, and aftermath of play scenes both past and present. This shows my playfulness, diversity, fetishes, interests, the skills and techniques I have developed and the creativity I have displayed. Displaying photos of my various BDSM play partners and their marks and hot artistic action images attracts those who are also exhibitionists and is not only a fetish of mine, but is in line with being open, honest and not deceptive. Sure, to others it appears as I am boasting of my "conquests." But when have I ever made that declaration? If you don't want to be a member of that club, then I don't want you to be my submissive.

No I said

I wanted to say Yes

He wanted my everything

He would take nothing less

But everything is scary

I stand to lose it all

Tumbling with chips all in

Who will catch my fall? 

No becomes my safety net

To save me from my woe

When fear controls my future

My Master is No

The ante is still in his hand

He refused to let it go

Fuel to kill my everything

What use is Master No

I'm standing on an island
An island of blue
Surrounded by chaos
But caught up in you

Storm clouds shaded my desire
Yet, this rocky terrain fuels the fire
I've been lost for so long
Never looking for The Way

And now you've found Me
I wasn't looking for you
But something told me
It whispered your name

Come on and take My hand
Baby, we can't stay forever
But for a little while we can pretend
Nothing lasts forever
'Cept on this island of blue

Dark shades find us
We turn the light and blind them
Voices carry but don't you worry
The sands of time will guide us

Here and now
I fight but fall
Win or lose
I only know
Nothing lasts forever
'Cept on this island of blue

I look on past the distance
you pull me close and whisper
"I want you so bad it hurts"
And the earth below deserts us

Ill fated illusion cast it's net
But, let's forsake this ruin
And find what we've always been wantin'
Because, nothing lasts forever
'Cept on this island
This island of you

Break down my barriers and shelter me inside
Those warm troubles alibies that you think coincide
To the solution of a sex-driven vile pride
And behind the shadows of seduction you hide.

Well, oh two can play this game of seek
Don't be so shy, you're coming off as weak.
You started this all with those "please save me" eyes
Don't act like this was going to be a surprise.

I know what you are and how many women you've taken
And yet, here you are, like a baby, you're shakin'
And with that cool calmness, I know, boy you're fakin'

Because we both know that you've sadly mistaken

Me

For the victim
For I am the  alpha
And you are to kneel.

I take to thee what has been so terribly deserved
Now it's your turn to get unnerved
Because I know your games, and I will not be attached
I have come to tie you to the matress, unmatched
My dominance is to your submissive surprise
As I take the sweet something between your thighs

You beg for mercy as I move through your soul
And you beg and plead for me to say "I love you so"
But how could I ever love anyone such as you
After everything you've put them through?

Now it's time someone did it to you. 

warm thighs wrapped around full submission to thievery.. gift of self wrapped in thrusts of emotion..

urgent hunger as life force funneled and shaped into the ram pounded tinto wall of distance between us as bodies meld together..

sensations rise to blur between lover and loved as boundaries of touch spread out into the ether to embrace me caress and know me as the warm winds know the blades of grass on a cold ground..

feel the dance of my kisses upon you as i seek warmth in the touch of your face there graceful curve as snuggle into warm lips as they wrap around the parts of me to be tasted and felt and listened to..

they sing to you as you wrap around all of me to be a home for this wandering soul after a hard long journey to find you there..

Put into space,
Lost in time,
No definite place.

Everything taken out,
My possessions,
I become devout.

Remove more,
My soul and spirit,
You’re no chore.

Steal my eyes,
Leave me blind,
Be my prize.

Touch my mind,
Caress my thoughts,
The contract I signed.

The last I can give,
My core and centre,
This death I’d relive.

I will be your Angel.

I will be your guide.

You can reach out for me.

You do not need to hide.



I see you peeking 'round the corner...

Hesitant to approach...

afraid that what you will display,

might bring rejection and reproach...



But remember, I'm your Angel.

I am not here to judge.

I'm here to lift you up

and fill your heart with love.



There is a light that shines within

A light that shines for you

Do not be afraid my love

You know just what to do...



When someone offers you their heart...

their love, and their trust...

it's natural to be afraid

but follow me you must.



I'll lead you to a safe place

Where you can work it through

All the anger, all the fear

that lives inside of you.



You can work through all the heartache...

all the loss and all the pain.

You will regain control with me.

Feel the cleansing rain.



I submit to you.

I trust you to

take what you need

to make you whole.

I'll envelope you in love

and receive your soul.



Place myself at your mercy

succumbing to your whims.

Your Angel will absorb it all...

and give it up to HIM.



I will be your slave

To dominate and torture

If that is what you need

To reclaim your stature.



I will take pleasure in the pain

You inflict upon my skin

Knowing it won't penetrate

My gentle heart within.



Knowing that you trust me

and love me till it hurts

It is something I can give you

To reaffirm your worth.



Your gifted with my trust and love

Allowing you to show

The darkest desires within you

That the world will never know.



It is not at all shameful

nor deviant of mind

It is beautiful in ritual

That seldom does one find



A place so free of judgement

A place so safe and warm

A place that is a haven

A shelter from life's storm



So take me and unleash your self

like you never have before

I can absorb it all

...and not be taken like a whore.



It is a gift... through love and trust.

Something only we possess.

What I will share with you is boundless

Put me to the test.



Tie me up, pull my hair, spank me if you must

Tell me the things you dare not speak... I ask you for your trust.

Punish me for their sins

Release the darkness that you hide.

Let me take your pain away...

Restore your rightful pride.

Take me, Make me, Do the things

You wish for in the night

Let me take you're darkest wish

And fill it with my light.



When the evening fades to morn, and silently we lay...

Hold me tight and whisper that you've finally found your way.