Myths about Slaves.

[denuseri]

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I only wish to be specific and make a “long needed distinction” between long-distance, role-playing, and real life...and I know those differences very very well my self, intimately so and they are very distinctive.

Talking about climbing a mountain and or practicing on a rock wall is no substitute for actually climbing it.

Watching the space shuttle launch doesn’t compare to riding on it.

It’s like the differences between fantasy, theory and reality.

I do not belittle the people who like to watch or fantasize or pretend or practice submission safely from the sidelines in less than a real life capacity by making such distinctions. I simply define their submission in the context in which it actually lays.

Disagreeing about weather or not the sky is blue, makes no difference to the sky.

Just as role-playing in a textual format in a chat room doesn’t compare to long distance submission in an online capacity, so too both of the aforementioned do not begin to hold a candle to actually being there in person.

Additionally...I believe that we are as physical a being as we are mentally an entity, one does not have one with out the other. When you have actual physical reinforcement the experience is greatly intensified by comparison to a purely cerebral encounter.

Just as one cannot really fully understand what exactly goes through the mind of the slave or how they deal with the internal struggles within themselves between trust, fear, and a myriad of other emotional extremes until one really is indeed truly and utterly "helpless" and in the actual physical power and presence of another.

Because safe word or not...once your really bound and alone at the feet of someone else...you are at that moment really in their mercy and no matter how much you wish to candy coat it otherwise…your life is in their hands at that point.

This is something which quite simply cannot be accomplished in an online only capacity. (Fantasy, role-play, online long distance submission or otherwise)

And something imho that one must be able to face and face in real life before one can even begin to comprehend it, so much as think, of calling themselves a real life slave.

Which brings us posthumously to Myth#3

"I am a slave because I role-play being one, or have submitted to the commands of someone over the internet."

Again...it is what it is...and I think I very clearly pointed out why it also isn't what it isn't.

You simply cannot be a "real life" slave...if you are not submitting in real life.