A number of years ago, as I was about to take my dog out for a walk, and it was dark out, I put her reflective collar around my own neck without thinking.
"It's a bit tight..." I said with a tentative tone.
...My mom, standing next to me, immediately burst into uncontrollable laughter, and that was when I realized what I'd done. I have hardly ever felt more embarrassed in my entire life. I had and still have zero clue as to how on Earth I had concluded that the dog's collar was intended for my own personal use, and even after noticing that the collar was way too tight, not stopping to contemplate that I may have been doing something wrong.
Mom still teases me about that incident sometimes.
So yeah, this post just reminded me of that anecdote.
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
"We Will Talk of Nothing Else": Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
"Thanks for asking babe"
"No problem. Now bend over you worthless slave!"
"Yes my queen."
Having been on both ends of this, absolutely check
Don't want to have anyone ending up in the hospital
Unless it's the play hospital I set up in the bedroom
Moving to a university town full of young men looking to a 40-ish dom like me for their first subbing experience has been an eye-opener. Last month I had a new session partner actually start crying because he'd never experienced proper aftercare before. Poor guy had a few sessions with other self-described doms who were just dumb thugs only looking to hit him into obedience then kick him out the door once they'd had their fun. He'd never before had prior discussions on physical limits, verbal limits, safewords, safe gestures, expectations, etc. And he'd definitely not had a dom provide food and gatorade and clean towels and a clean bathrobe and a new toothbrush and other freshening-up essentials for afterwards.
I'm no kinkster but food, gatorade and a bathrobe? Hell yeah sign me up, no one ever gave me a bathrobe
Poor guy had a few sessions with other self-described doms who were just dumb thugs only looking to hit him into obedience then kick him out the door once they'd had their fun.
I would not be surprised if such experiences were responsible for a sizable portion of the anti-kink movement.
a clean bathrobe and a new toothbrush and other freshening-up essentials for afterwards.
wow look at you going ten extra miles making the rest of us look bad 😔
I like to think of it as elevating subs' standards. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Asshole fake doms get less action, us proper doms get more, and our sub partners have way more fun.
yeah it sounds mutually beneficial until it starts an arms race and every sub out there starts expecting aftercare including a BRAND NEW CAR and then where will us poor schmucks be?? 😔😔😔
Shit... you're right. Maybe we ought to unionize. Do some collective bargaining instead of this exploitative one-on-one individual contracting thing.
- ∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]·22 days ago
Under socialism it will be publicly owned and centrally planned.
Damn I thought my aftercare was good but a new toothbrush? I would be floored by that
Put a finger between the collar and their neck to keep some play in it. But yes, also always ask.