In a comment on my Consenting Public post Puppy Princess wrote:
My 13 year old grandson thinks my collar is cool; he doesn’t think it’s odd in the lease. He’s just used to it. He may have asked me why I wear it once; I told him that I like it, that I think it’s pretty and he was content with that answer. Could some people, perhaps, be over thinking this one?
I think there’s a lot of over-reaction in the BDSM community, all in the name of trying to be safe, sane and consensual. I applaud the SSC tenet as just a basic good approach to life, really, but it’s like political correctness, it can go way too far!!
I’m not a cookie-cutter type person, I never truly fit the social mold and I’m sure almost every kinkster agrees that they felt, most of their life, that they just didn’t quite fit the conventional life. I never really wanted to, and I doubt I ever will want to. The plain truth is I like being a bit different, I like being a bit odd by social norms.
I don’t want just one type of cereal everyday for breakfast, I don’t want steamed broccoli every night for dinner. And while I love a little spicy curry in my diet I wouldn’t want it as the sole staple of my culinary existance.
Variety is not only the spice of life, it’s the spice of sex and love as well.
I wasn’t willing to conform in grade one, I never conformed in my early adulthood, and, as I sit here, at the ripe age of almost-50, staring at the pile of college textbooks waiting for me to return to studying for tomorrow’s exam, I can see that I haven’t learned conformity yet.
And I sincerely hope I never do.
Society could benefit from a little shaking up, a little splash of cold water on its face. Isn’t it about time we woke up from the silly dream that we are all alike and we all live in this safe sterile world where all the leftovers neatly fit the stacking tupperware containers in the fridge?
Let’s not forget, if it wasn’t for mold we’d never have penicillin.
Don’t be afraid to rock the boat, just make sure you do it at a depth where you can swim, and wear protection against hypothermia and jelly-fish. No need to risk your life.
Splash on, dear kink-folk, splash on!
