ChasingAnna
Really Experienced
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- Dec 17, 2018
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I agree, and might even go further.I don't quite get it.
BDSM is first and foremost based in consent and trust. To say that a disabled person shouldn't be written about in a submissive nature because it's like bullying is suggesting that a person who is disabled has no right to consent to something happening to their own body in any context. You're saying that a person who is disabled is victimized by their disability and have no right to choose anything but a vanilla relationship.
Being in a consensual healthy dominanting relationship takes no more consent than me going to the tattoo shop and getting my ears pierced. Would a tattoo artist be considered mauling a person bound in a wheelchair if that person asked for a piercing? Are you going to turn away or leave because it is uncomfortable to see them get their ears pierced vs an able bodied person?
Disabled people exist in this world. Their desires do not change because they lose a limb or don't have eyesight..
Are disabled people more vulnerable to being taken advantage of? Yes. But are they less capable of making sound decisions about their body? No.
It may not be your cup of tea, but it is no more bullying than it would be if I were to take their place.
Approaching it from another direction, what people often want in the bedroom is a break from their lives more generally. When I'm feeling a bit out of control in life, I tend to want to be more dominant in the bedroom. When I'm feeling on top of the world, I might like my partner to take charge. It kind of brings everything in balance.
Often, people with a disability work quite hard at being as independent as possible. It seems entirely plausible to me that someone working hard to be as self sufficient as they are able might want to take a break from maintaining that control for a bit.