Moreover, the term describes both activities and relationships. To many who indulge in its pleasures, it is a cathartic sexual game based on fantasy, a sensual psychodrama. For most practitioners, it is a kind of chocolate frosting on the conventional sexuality cake, an enhancement and expansion rather than a substitute for the genital sex.
What is domination and submission? It is a form of erotic play that takes place when one voluntarily gives up some or all of his or her power and freedom to another for the purpose of sensual excitement. The happiest change from the original volume is that the DSM III, the learned tome that branded what we do as pathologically nuts, has been supplanted by the DSM IV, which takes a lot more understanding view of us whip- swinging perverts.Īside from those modifications, most of the changes are either fine tuning on my part or a recognition that time has marched on, leaving some parts of the old book more useful as a historical archive than as a guide to what is happening currently. I’ll also be spending more time talking about pure sensation players since I admit giving their interests an undeserved short shrift in the original version. All of them did more violence to the flow than I was comfortable with. I attempted various semantic tricks like dominant/top, dominant or top and even the generic player. To avoid labored constructions, I’ve retained dominant or submissive where it was appropriate even though the reference could apply equally to a top or a bottom. The shift in terminology has created a bit of a problem in language. While I have some discomfort with sadism, I feel it is a more inclusive umbrella and a more accurate representation than simply domination and submission. References to S&M or Domination and Submission have been largely replaced by BDSM, an umbrella term combining the words Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism and Masochism. Today, we can be much more open and the Internet has changed the world almost beyond imagination. BDSM, when it was mentioned, was a thing of whispers and giggles. The original Loving Dominant was written at a time when the Internet was largely a thing of corporations, governments and universities. The biggest change is on how to find partners. For example, the section on electricity is much much larger than it was in either of the previous versions. There are several new sections and I’ve greatly expanded a few existing ones. Those of you who have read the edition of The Loving Dominant that was published by Masquerade Books or its second edition from Greenery Press won’t find many surprises in these pages, although I do appreciate the additional royalties.
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