Quote Originally Posted by Curtis
Unless you're going to be topping other Doms, why would you learn to top FROM a Dom? It just doesn't compute.

It computes just fine for me. A dominant mentoring another dominant is traditionally the way it's done anyway. Besides, if you need to know how to tie a knot, are you going to ask the person that ties the knot, or the person that has the knot tied on them?

I'd suggest and even encourage inexperienced dominants to mentor under more experienced dominant. Especially in real life situations where the pain is real, the damage is real, and the people are real.

It also has nothing to do with ego. It's just the passing of knowledge from one person to the next in an objective sense. Back in the dark ages before the internet and before widely published "how to" books about BDSM, mentoring was almost exclusively the way people learned in the lifestyle. Well, back then, I don't even think it was a lifestyle yet.

And while I might want to learn field operations from the Master Sergeant, I want to learn base operations from the Captain posted there. In the same way, I'd rather learn how to use a TENS unit from a person with lots of experience using one, not from a person that spends 90% of the time blindfolded, gaggd and bound while it's used on her.