Does it ever trouble you?

[firewoman]

l knew this place was going to be interesting in more ways than one.

l'm relatively new to the bdsm life , in fact most of what l've experienced has been very vanilla or on my own...but as a pagan , l find the issue of female submission and male domination an interesting one...in pagan faith the sexes are equel which may explain why l feel l may fit into more of a switch persona rather than a dom or sub ( is switch the correct title for someone who is comfortable being both ? l hope this is the correct term...l'm still learning )...as for the clash , l don't think in paganism there would be one , at least none that l have come across so far in my learning experiences.

l look forward to reading more of people's thought and feelings on the subject , it's a fascinating topic of discussion.

[rce]

...in pagan faith the sexes are equel which may explain why l feel l may fit into more of a switch persona rather than a dom or sub ( is switch the correct title for someone who is comfortable being both ? l hope this is the correct term...l'm still learning )...

You have the term switch correct.

I have come to think of paganism as a collective name of many different belief systems and cults, all of which deals with the divinity of nature itself and perhaps many gods, sometimes a search for the beliefs of the ancient forefathers (and foremothers) before Christianity. If this is correct, is it really true that "in pagan faith the sexes are equ[a]l"? Would this not vary depending on the type of paganism you adhere to? I am just curious.

[firewoman]

quite possibly you are correct....but l personally view paganism as equel...can't have male with out female...light with out dark....life with out death , etc....tho at any given period of time one may feel a greater connection with one over the other...to be truely balanced you need an equel measure of both...but that's just speaking from my own lessons , l couldn't and wouldn't speak for anyone else. l could get into more of a discussion about the role of gender and god sv's goddess but it wold be the wrong thread...;-)

[Rhabbi]

...can't have male with out female...light with out dark....life with out death , etc....tho at any given period of time one may feel a greater connection with one over the other...to be truely balanced you need an equel measure of both...

The concept of a balance between the light and dark, or the male and female, life and death, does not meant that they are equal, just that they are balanced.

To illustrate this, for every life their is a death, but the time that one has in life is less than the time one spends in death. The balance of one against another means that one may be superior over the other aat one point, and that the power would shift back at another time. A balance just puts them in harmony on a csomic scale, not neccessarily a scale that we observe.

[Guest 91108]

The concept of a balance between the light and dark, or the male and female, life and death, does not meant that they are equal, just that they are balanced.

To illustrate this, for every life their is a death, but the time that one has in life is less than the time one spends in death. The balance of one against another means that one may be superior over the other aat one point, and that the power would shift back at another time. A balance just puts them in harmony on a csomic scale, not neccessarily a scale that we observe.

hrm i disagree. i think that to be balanced they must be equal ..
in the life and death equation.. balance is sometimes found only in the opposite of a thing. Who's to say that one's time in death is not a long as a lifetime ?
Not that either one wins out to create the balance ; light doesn't win out over dark. each slides into the absence of the other, as in during rotation of the planet. there is not Not light or not dark area.

[cariad]

l find the issue of female submission and male domination an interesting one...in pagan faith the sexes are equel.

Are female submission and male domination not equal, although different? I think they are.

cariad

[firewoman]

Are female submission and male domination not equal, although different? I think they are.

cariad

yes they are..l was repeating the question as part of my reply , tho l can see my grammatical error......thanks