Do I Love or Hate Pain ? – Yes
I don’t watch or browse porn. I certainly used to. If I had to put my finger on it, the (never intense) interest in porn waned as the chastity lifestyle took hold and other parts of my makeup that I now recognise had a chance to incubate and then germinate.
If someone pointed me at a video, I would view on fast forward to see the “interesting” or “unique” bit, or simply because I found it boring.
The only kink videos I’ve watched in recent times are the ones of me being sploshed. Even then, I had to resist the normal fast forward habit.
Last week, a short 2 minute video clip was uploaded to FetLife showing my last CP session – the first time I’ve been filmed in that environment. My reaction to it is unusual. For a start, I’ve watched it perhaps a dozen times, seeing new things each time. The same video with another subject would hold no interest.
I see the vibrant colour of the shoes I chose at the last minute. I hear the music that she uses for rhythmic effect. The music recalls the smells of the dungeon. I see the intense concentration on her face. I see lots of things, big and small which I’ve never been able to see before. I’ve never seen the beauty in the violence from this perspective.
And I recall how far down the rabbit hole I was when I watch her strike hard without me flinching or drawing breath.
Strange emotions and desires. I want to see closer to the end when the cane stripes are prominent and I want to see blood flying when the cane lands. I wouldn’t care if the subject was someone else and even though it is a different ‘me’, it plays on all the hypnotic reinforcements.
It drives right in to the core of a long running internal conflict. As said emphatically elsewhere on this blog, I am not a masochist. Yet a very long time ago someone said I had the makings of a pain slut. The non-masochist side can make the beginning of a session quite difficult. Once I’ve gone down the rabbit hole the pain slut is increasingly making itself known.
I’ve spent a long time being frightened of that pain slut prophecy / diagnosis. The path to that space is everything that the rest of me wants to avoid. And yet, once in that space, I feel I could go on and endure forever and I have to learn to admit that it’s a significant part of me.
To view that video you need a FetLife subscription https://fetlife.com/users/856888/videos/1368561
And after two hours of beating through the range of implements she did a full needle session.
[Updated to add pictures of some fine needlework]
April 20, 2019 @ 1:39 pm
“….And yet, once in that space, I feel I could go on and endure forever and I have to learn to admit that it’s a significant part of me…..”
The fascination of consenting adults within D/s fascinates me
Another educational insight into a genuine power exchange
Swirly 🌻💕