Top Disease

Miss Diva

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PYLs also can suffer from an ailment also. While subs may have sub frenzy there is also the concept of Top Disease (read below). It is another very dangerous ailment.

I am wondering if any Doms (or seen any Doms) experienced this sort of ailment when they were starting out or experience it now. And what you do to correct your own behaviour. As for subs, have you encountered a real Doms (not the jerks offs online) who became corrupt.

I am just wondering about experience and solutions to the issue and how subs can point out to PYLs the problem.

TOPS DISEASE

Tops Disease is the corruption of power.

Corruption is to degrade with unsound principles, to alter from the original or correct form or version, to become vicious, tainted, rotten. This often occurs with a parallel degradation of moral values, the impairment of personal integrity, the loss of virtue and moral principles.

When a Dominant becomes corrupt their judgment is impaired. They tend to believe they are elevated in status and worth by virtue of being dominant over one or more individuals. In addition they may elect to view a submissive or slave as a being of little value or worth, of diminished importance or in truth from an objectified perspective. Such a devaluation is extremely dangerous for and submissive or slave dealing with a Dominant in this condition. By seeing another human being as 'discardable' the Dominant no longer has a focused concern on the safety, mental and physical health and welfare of that submissive or slave. This reduction in 'safety' can spell disaster, damage and even death should a submissive or slave continue to be with such a Dominant.

Corruption is often a slow process. An insidious eating away at the moral fiber or character of the individual. A Dominant can become intoxicated by the supplication of submissives toward them. For many Dominants, this type of 'worship' is new, quite powerful and wildly arousing. Learning to manage this in a healthy way is not easy or simple.

Many new or emergent Dominants are told that certain attitudes of disrespect are expected of them by the submissives wishing to serve them. Believing in this counsel and adopting these attitudes can set the Dominant up for Tops Disease.

Detachment of emotional empathy or contact with submissives or slaves is often the beginning of corruption. Viewing a submissive or slave with disrespect and disdain, verbally objectifying them or otherwise learning to disparage them as individuals can lead to a skewed and flawed viewpoint. Many Dominants talk themselves into problems by adopting attitudes or postures which they believe are necessary or required of them for them to present a strong Dominant presence.

If a Dominant is not empathetically connected to a submissive or slave, or is not able to feel or sense where that submissive/slave is mentally, they will begin to make mistakes or errors in judgment which can propel them over the threshold of consent. Tops Disease can and does lead to verbal, mental, emotional and eventually physical abuse against submissive/slaves. It 'turns' or 'corrupts' a Dominant from being or expressing their Dominance in a reasoned loving and healthy way into victimizing those they are with to the point of becoming an abuser.

A Dominant with Tops Disease will often be oblivious to the extent of this degradation unless they can be directed by someone they know, respect and trust into viewing their actions, choices and mental viewpoint from an external perspective.

Some Dominants address Tops Disease, when they see the warning signs within themselves, by voluntarily withdrawing from the role of Dominant for a period of time. This may be into vanilla space for a few weeks or it may be into the role of submissive for a period of time to 'clean out' or 'scrub away' the attitudes and mental pathways which have become corrupt.

Long term uncontrolled Tops Disease creates an individual who is dangerous, who cares only for their own needs and has total disregard for the needs, rights or feelings of others. The individual becomes mentally unbalanced.
 
Miss Diva said:
If a Dominant is not empathetically connected to a submissive or slave, or is not able to feel or sense where that submissive/slave is mentally, they will begin to make mistakes or errors in judgment which can propel them over the threshold of consent. Tops Disease can and does lead to verbal, mental, emotional and eventually physical abuse against submissive/slaves. It 'turns' or 'corrupts' a Dominant from being or expressing their Dominance in a reasoned loving and healthy way into victimizing those they are with to the point of becoming an abuser.

Long term uncontrolled Tops Disease creates an individual who is dangerous, who cares only for their own needs and has total disregard for the needs, rights or feelings of others. The individual becomes mentally unbalanced.

This is the stuff of Horror and fortunately with only a small exception nothing I have ever really considered as being linked to Dominants. If a Dom/me was to present unknown to myself with the text descriptive I would first think they had a mental health issue/condition possibly something like Pathological Narcissism. Only mention PN as it loiters strongly around the 'self' initally. Maybe witnessing the initial conduct would make me challenge that the person was in fact a Dom/me at all and be dismissive of them. Hmmn... EDIT To futher clarify mental health issues should IMO be received in best practise with the same empathy one would extend to someone with physical health issues. I think my point here is that if someone introduces themselves as a Dom/me then goes into a mode as severe as described in the article posted by Miss Diva on first acquaintence I would in fact shy away from them. Perhaps initially drawing the incorrect conclusion that I was been 'shown' the Dom/me in questions exaggerated/inaccurate 'portrayal' of 'dominance'. Example being the Dom/me often joked about when unfamiliar to you barks 'on your knees slut and call me Sir' type thing. Of course submissives/slaves have their own set of peculiar sterotypical behaviours that would inspire in me the same response, though those behaviours rarely are displayed within the context of aggression.Humor Note : Unless of course you count being bitchy END OF EDIT

I never for once in my limited experience of this sort of manisfestation ever considered it to be intrinsically linked to being a Top. Perhaps because we know that so many disorders of this kind are are due more so to nuerological conditions (such as chemical imbalence) . Permits me to 'divorce' the conditon from the persons actually psyche to some huge degree.

For the one Dominant that comes to mind under the text descriptive I would know perhaps 10 people more in the mainstream population that anyone could easily ascertain those negative characteristics to. The 'small exception' Dominant was a companion of mine . No one could pay me any attention without him 'flying off the handle'. Followed a path from being mildly socially embarassing to abuse as I was often punished for issues that never existed outside his mind. It very disorientating living like that. To keep trying to second guess what will set someone off next and sliding into damage control before the event. Really can't be achieved with any real sucess. Your after all dealing with someone with an altered perception of reality. Being even temporarily in submission under those circumstances can leave a negative legacy. Thankfully mine is only small .

Do Dom/me here on the BB have any direct experience of this with their 'peers' if so I would be really interested to read about it. Would you really conclude it was in direct asscociation to being a Top or sidestepping and seeing it as a plausible medical disorder unrelated.

Thank you so much for posting this Miss Diva its most interesting . :rose:
 
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Blushing Bottom said:
Yes Marquis you're right, it is a condition...the anti-social personality disorder.


FUCK YOU!!!

I'm not anti-social, BITCH!!!!


You internet people are pissing me off, I need to make some real friends.
 
Most humble apologies. My comment was not meant as a personal afront. It was merely to agree with you comment about the description Miss Diva shared is that of an anti-social individual.

A thousand pardons...,

Marquis said:
FUCK YOU!!!

I'm not anti-social, BITCH!!!!


You internet people are pissing me off, I need to make some real friends.
 
Blushing Bottom said:
Most humble apologies. My comment was not meant as a personal afront. It was merely to agree with you comment about the description Miss Diva shared is that of an anti-social individual.

A thousand pardons...,

Apology rejected!!

I hate everyone!!!
 
Pull the skirt down off that left buttcheek and we're in business.
 
*slowly lowering skirt over left buttcheek, undulating hips in time to a primal beat*



Marquis said:
Pull the skirt down off that left buttcheek and we're in business.
 
Basically I think this is a way to villify a certain kind of relationship style and playstyle that's not everyone's cup of tea but is some people's.

I don't think that because I deal with people who are sexually excited by humiliation, degradation, and depersonalization, that makes me likely to kill someone or hurt them. I think it means I talk to them not-so-nice and I don't stop just because they are crying.
 
Netzach said:
Basically I think this is a way to villify a certain kind of relationship style and playstyle that's not everyone's cup of tea but is some people's.

I don't think that because I deal with people who are sexually excited by humiliation, degradation, and depersonalization, that makes me likely to kill someone or hurt them. I think it means I talk to them not-so-nice and I don't stop just because they are crying.

:cathappy: Sounds good to me. It comes across as another form of censorship from a vanilla perspective, and the over popular practice of labelling everyone from a mental helth perspectve which in recent years has become over rated, unprofessional, and incorrect in many instances. If someone does not like degradation, humiliation, and objectification, don't look for it in a partner, but certainly don't begin to label and diagnose me or the one I chose for liking such things. BTW, where did the article come from as it doesn't seem to be referenced?

Catalina :rose:
 
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