Quote Originally Posted by kalitat View Post
IDCrewDawg: "That is your definition and yours alone. It is not how I nor my slave define our relationship. Again, hence the reason your idea is faulted from the very beginning."


So LW's opinions are to be faulted because they do not match yours? They may not match mine either but to me, that does not make them faulted, only different. In this case there is no "right" and "wrong". That in and of itself is the beauty of a relationship as they are all unique and dependent many factors.
I think the point he is trying to make is not that anyones' opinions are faulty but rather that they are merely that - opinions. I think he is trying to say that any one person's opinions on any aspect of BDSM cannot be taken as definitive because there is no 'one true way'. Everyones' opinions are valid because BDSM as a lifestyle is not something like a science where there are hard and fast answers to every question (and even in science there are no hard and fast answers, there is always differing opinions and debate) but a community of people with different backgrounds, experiences and opinions whose only common ground, in many cases, is adherence to this lifestyle.