Lutheran Maid
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Not a story this time, but a discussion offering. I wanted to offer a few points about changing circumstances for women and the potential benefits as regards the dominance/submission dimension of sex. My argument is that this dimension has for too long been ignored, sniggered at, considered a perversion rather than a normal aspect of sexuality. We've achieved equality as regards sexual partner preference (straight, gay, bi) but now its time to recognise this dimension of sexuality too, and yes, to celebrate it!
Much of what has hindered the expression in the past has concerned how women have been socialised. Its simply not nice for us to dominate men. Its unfeminine to treat some men as inferior. We've been made the guardians of manners! But I do sense the wind of change. Here are some pointers that I think suggest change is underway.
1. The rise in different forms of female power. True there are deficits in the boardroom and some areas where progress has been slower, but there is now a growth in the incidence of women out earning their husbands and having charge of the lifestyle that goes with that. Nothing changes the marital psychology like a shift in power. Men are slowly beginning to do more chores, to raise kids more, and that does mean that women are free to live and love in more expressive, self aware ways.
2. A quiet acceptance that women have affairs as much as men (well, there is one per cent difference in the UK today, 20% of married men have had an affair and 19% of married women). Once upon a time it was a heinous crime for a woman to have an affair, but a jack the lad smacked wrist for the men. Now we are having affairs as often as the men and for broadly similar reasons. We don't have to justify straying on grounds of emotional coldness in a partner, we can want and have sex because we are bored with a man, consider ourselves better than what they offer. Don't get me wrong about this, I'm not advocating run amok sex with all and sundry, nasty diseases exist, but I am arguing that we deserve to have sexually fulfilling lives alongside, if not within a marriage. Men can be mature enough to know that they are nice but not enough. We are emotionally mature enough to signal that want we share elsewhere doesn't preclude something less left for the husband. Lifestyle accommodations can be reached.
3. Slowly changing psychology about a woman's mind. The arts, media, drama has rarely dared to portray women enjoying power, seeking sexual gratification and enjoying humiliating a man. Past portrayals had 'baddie' women portrayed as sexy (always in black) but ultimately, always defeated for the wrong moral thought. You can wear Prada and use your sex appeal openly, women do in life anyway, despite the protests of the restrictive wing of feminism. 'The Handmaiden's Tale' portray sex in quite a raw state and yes there are women directing requirements. It's a dystopia, but it shadows real life where women have sometimes cuckolded a man and had him raise her lover's child. Personally, I'm fed up with the equation that bitch is always bad. There's always been men who need to be bitched and our stepping out of the shadows acknowledges that male need too. Imagine more wives this way. More cock cages, more humiliation, more men feeling that they stumble in a primordial race for our attention. Much of what I write ('Another Kind of Bitch' Amazon) is about that, what minds in concert produce.
Hmmmn. I wonder what people think?
Much of what has hindered the expression in the past has concerned how women have been socialised. Its simply not nice for us to dominate men. Its unfeminine to treat some men as inferior. We've been made the guardians of manners! But I do sense the wind of change. Here are some pointers that I think suggest change is underway.
1. The rise in different forms of female power. True there are deficits in the boardroom and some areas where progress has been slower, but there is now a growth in the incidence of women out earning their husbands and having charge of the lifestyle that goes with that. Nothing changes the marital psychology like a shift in power. Men are slowly beginning to do more chores, to raise kids more, and that does mean that women are free to live and love in more expressive, self aware ways.
2. A quiet acceptance that women have affairs as much as men (well, there is one per cent difference in the UK today, 20% of married men have had an affair and 19% of married women). Once upon a time it was a heinous crime for a woman to have an affair, but a jack the lad smacked wrist for the men. Now we are having affairs as often as the men and for broadly similar reasons. We don't have to justify straying on grounds of emotional coldness in a partner, we can want and have sex because we are bored with a man, consider ourselves better than what they offer. Don't get me wrong about this, I'm not advocating run amok sex with all and sundry, nasty diseases exist, but I am arguing that we deserve to have sexually fulfilling lives alongside, if not within a marriage. Men can be mature enough to know that they are nice but not enough. We are emotionally mature enough to signal that want we share elsewhere doesn't preclude something less left for the husband. Lifestyle accommodations can be reached.
3. Slowly changing psychology about a woman's mind. The arts, media, drama has rarely dared to portray women enjoying power, seeking sexual gratification and enjoying humiliating a man. Past portrayals had 'baddie' women portrayed as sexy (always in black) but ultimately, always defeated for the wrong moral thought. You can wear Prada and use your sex appeal openly, women do in life anyway, despite the protests of the restrictive wing of feminism. 'The Handmaiden's Tale' portray sex in quite a raw state and yes there are women directing requirements. It's a dystopia, but it shadows real life where women have sometimes cuckolded a man and had him raise her lover's child. Personally, I'm fed up with the equation that bitch is always bad. There's always been men who need to be bitched and our stepping out of the shadows acknowledges that male need too. Imagine more wives this way. More cock cages, more humiliation, more men feeling that they stumble in a primordial race for our attention. Much of what I write ('Another Kind of Bitch' Amazon) is about that, what minds in concert produce.
Hmmmn. I wonder what people think?