Quote Originally Posted by littlepet View Post
hehe yes, I'm 29. Still just a baby. :P Though there was a time I think I thought kink was somehow just gonna "end" by 35. I'm glad that's not the case. It would be terribly sad.
Oh gosh, don't plant ideas in my head! I'm 26, but I'll have to make sure now to make the best out of the time *giggles*

On the original topic, I don't think that the term 'pet' as you use it is all that new, and I'm pretty sure that it existed before second life got big already. I am, however, under the impression that it is used far more frequently these days. There seems to be much more information floating about, and it seems to be quite a topical thing -- if it has anything to do with second life or not I could not tell.

I agree that it fills a niché, too. I feel sometimes that all these 'lifestyle labels' tend to be a little bit inflexible, and that might be a problem as well, we are all different and BDSM has quite the range. I know that I for my part struggle with finding the appropriate term for myself. I feel that I don't really fit into any of the available categories (not the pet one, either), so I'll just go with the good old submissive for now and invent an awesome new term at some point

It's strange somehow that we seem to try to 'fit in', though. It should be sufficient to be what we are, whatever name you want to give it. Yet somehow words in this context seem to have so much more significance at times.....and now I got completely carried away. Time to stop rambling!