What if any impact does one's culture have on their ability to dominate or submit?
A persons culture does play a serious roll in the psycho-sexual lives of those that Dominate and especially those that submit. Conformity through consensus reality is the down fall of most African Americana subs and has been since I have been in this lifestyle. Lets start with a simple experiment that I like to do with people in my class.
Start by closing your eyes. Then envision BDSM... nothing to specific just random scenes and images... Then I ask, "when you envision BDSM do you see any black people in it?"
Most people including people of color say no. This is significant because we as people of color don't even envision people that look like us doing the things that we desire to do in our own minds. But, then again, we as people of color rarely if ever see people like us doing BDSM or even leading any other alternative lifestyle happily. I feel that as a result of this culture of capitulation, we as African Americans haven't progressed as culture 'sexually'
As a culture, we do not support deviationism in anyway. In all actuality we secretly preach conformity among our men and women. The African American male has to be dominant or he is labeled as a sissy, homosexual or less than a man. A woman can't submit and doesn't need a person to follow.. And lets face it... If you see a black person in a movie doing BDSM its either a joke or its some roots reference.
Either way culture has portrayed anything resembling alternative lifestyle in the African American community as farcical. I always try to tell people that training black women is different then training white women.... (kind of like training lions and training cats) Because there is a whole memetic deconstruction that has to happen before you can begin to foster the D/s dynamic. You have to chip away at there consensus reality and augment it in away that is not only mutually beneficial but mutually desirable and that is very hard to do.
Start by closing your eyes. Then envision BDSM... nothing to specific just random scenes and images... Then I ask, "when you envision BDSM do you see any black people in it?"
Most people including people of color say no. This is significant because we as people of color don't even envision people that look like us doing the things that we desire to do in our own minds. But, then again, we as people of color rarely if ever see people like us doing BDSM or even leading any other alternative lifestyle happily. I feel that as a result of this culture of capitulation, we as African Americans haven't progressed as culture 'sexually'
As a culture, we do not support deviationism in anyway. In all actuality we secretly preach conformity among our men and women. The African American male has to be dominant or he is labeled as a sissy, homosexual or less than a man. A woman can't submit and doesn't need a person to follow.. And lets face it... If you see a black person in a movie doing BDSM its either a joke or its some roots reference.
Either way culture has portrayed anything resembling alternative lifestyle in the African American community as farcical. I always try to tell people that training black women is different then training white women.... (kind of like training lions and training cats) Because there is a whole memetic deconstruction that has to happen before you can begin to foster the D/s dynamic. You have to chip away at there consensus reality and augment it in away that is not only mutually beneficial but mutually desirable and that is very hard to do.