I would agree with everything above...Mack and sheepish especially.

my experience started out on line and then moved to r/l. But... r/l was only a couple of times a year (at most). Was i only His submissive those few times a year? NO... i followed orders daily that were in my best interest. From scheduling to weight loss to Him helping me mentally through the birth of my third child (had trauma from the twins that haunted me.) Had it not been for Him i would have been loonier then i am normally... lol.

So... since O/our main form of communication was o/l did that make the relationship any less real? Not for me. It required a different set of arrangements and its own' special challenges but it affected r/l... which to me make it r/l, period.

If you are truly submitting on line it will fall over into YOUR r/l in most instances (at least from my experience) so who's right is it to claim that just because you use email to get your orders instead of having your Dom standing right there that you are any less of anything? Just because someone may think that o/l is less who is to say that their "r/l" submission is true submission? i have a feeling some o/l subs are more respectful and obedient then some r/l subs are anyhow... lol.

Anyhow... just my two cents as well!