AG31
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I'm still not getting it. So you agree that sex can be mutually pleasurable and still a power situation. You're saying everything is a power situation? If that's the case, then the discussion doesn't seem particularly appropriate to literotica. ?????Dude, that's not "ad-hominum", it's just the truth. I'm describing a sensation I got when I read it. It's not an attack on you at all.
I wasn't suggesting that.
Power is everywhere. If you're going to claim it's imposed upon "sexuality" by "society", you have to get more specific, because society is historical and not a monolith–which society, where, when, and how, has imposed power upon sexuality? You'd find different examples for every place in time and history.
What you're saying can't be limited to discrimination, exploitation, or even prohibitions on certain sexual actions. For example, one might say that a confessional booth exercises power by calling you forth to confess your perversions and then typo-graphing them. One might even say this is a microcosm of a regime in a society that operates this way in general. Sexuality isn't repressed there, it's talked about all the time! Confess, confess, confess! That's what our society looks like to me, now.
The fact that an act is enjoyable for all of its participants doesn't mean that power isn't operating in the action. Power doesn't always feel bad when it's exercised on you, or when it's invested in you. To put it simply, power struggle does not imply toxicity.
Nothing I'm saying is reflecting any kind of personal "baggage" I have. It's actually kind of disappointing that nobody pointed out how insightful and mysterious I sounded, but that's Lit for you.