How many people on this forum submit to anybody?

Your wife/Husband/God, anybody?

Does the thought of submitting fully to another fill you with dread at the thought of giving up your sovereignty? Or does it comfort you fully knowing that you entrust your sovereignty with another?

Give and take mate, give and take.

I often submit to the current Lady Rune's sexual demands. But I'm happy to do so.

SilvaRizla wrote:
That isn't submitting though is it?

That is compromise when you see fit.

As humans we have great difficulty in submitting, as we feel that we are not in control, or know best.

Faith is total submission to a higher power for example and something which most people cannot comprehend.

It is my belief that without total submission to something, it is impossible to be content.

For when we feel like we are ultimately in control, we take on the mass forces of the universe, which of course we can't.

hugorune wrote:

Co-operation / compromise - yes. Submission - never.

Gilly wrote:

NEVER!

Gilly wrote:
Why does it scare you?

Because I've yet to find anyone who I trust sufficiently to let them take over.

What about you?

And what would be your case for total submission being preferable to give & take?

If submission releases you from the mass forces of the universe, how is the person you've submitted to supposed to cope alone with those forces?

Gilly wrote:
Anyone want to buy some rope...unused?

Imho it isn't submission that leads to contentment, it's letting go. Letting it all wash away. Ideally all the time so you are permanently 'meditating'.
Submission involves mind. It has intellectual overtones. The workings of mind, if 'submitted' to are actually a block to contentment imho.

Wolfy wrote:
I think the trick is neither. As you say we cannot have ultimate control, but submission removes free will. I think the middle ground would be acceptance. If you accept that you can be content, you will be.

Isn't submission a form of testing the self and the other person we are submitting to?
A way of finding out where each others boundaries are?
Does anybody who actually submits do so with their eyes truly shut?
Most things have duality, same of submission. Depending what your mind set is when you submit, it can be an amazing journey of self discovery. The very first stage of submission is to the self, not to the person we claim to be submitting to surely?
Take a bungee jump for example. When we decide to do one, we are submitting to our fear and testing it...not submitting to the will of a person trying to persuade you to do it.

Meh, it's all word play.

semantics I think you're looking for ...but no it isn't is it Gilly....is this you refusing to submit to submission?

I don't think so. People give me money to do stuff but I'm not bound to them. Tuesdays are different. I dress as a furry and beg for cocks. That's a personal choice though.
Y'all slaves clicking submit.

You won't catch me bungee jumping either come to that.

Many d/s relationships are happier, and more stable / functional than 'vanilla' relationships, so this would suggest to me that it is at least a part of some people's nature.

batou wrote:
Which day of the week do you don leather chaps and dish out massages?