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Dominant
A person who prefers to be superior in a
D/s relationship, being obeyed,
served, and pleased by
their submissive partner. Dominant is the
broadest term in the dominant / master /
owner orientation.
All masters or mistresses are dominants and all who describe
themselves as owning property are dominants but not all dominants are
masters / mistresses or owners of property. Self-describing as a
dominant does not necessarily mean that the person already
has a submissive. Instead, dominant describes a preference for taking
the dominant role in
a relationship, and
operates as a type of self-description or self-advertisement.
The everyday definition of the word "dominant" is: "commanding,
controlling, or prevailing over all others" (Merriam-Webster). The D/s
use of the word
dominant differs from the everyday definition of dominant in the
following ways:
- Dominant in D/s is commonly used as
a noun and this is a correct usage within this subculture.
- The word dominant in D/s is considerably more varied
than the
ordinary use of the word. Dominant in the everyday sense is an adjective
describing a fixed
personality feature exhibited in all interactions with others. In the
vanilla world "dominant"
commonly refers to a set of traits that is manifested whenever the
person interacts with
anyone. Within D/s the word "dominant" refers only to that
person's relationship to their own submissives or potential submissives
they wish to form a
relationship with. In other words, it is possible for people who do not
display dominance in the vanilla world to describe
themselves as dominant when referring to their relationship with a
submissive or when describing themselves in D/s.
In the wider BDSM scene, dominant is often used in place of the more
correct word "top" for the active participant in bondage, flogging and
other forms of physical BDSM.Differences between dominants and owners
When discussiong M/s and ownership, dominant is often used in contrast to
the term master or owner, mainly due to the differing connotations of the
corresponding terms submissive and
slave.See also
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