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Everyone basically knows the economy is broken. The question is less and less how do we fix it, but how do we get through it.This speech was delivered at and...
I really like plain language descriptions of kink. Actually explaining shit is SO gd important.
I s2g I am fucking incensed when I look up “hey, literally wtf. I am sexual and I do not understand asexual kink” or whatever.
But the search results I get back are written by fucking doms who effectively write to make the reader their non-consenting sub??
Like. Just fucking explain your gd answer or fuck off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8i4wy30-go
Anyway.
So… so, like… what *is* subspace?
Mentally stimulating improv to… embody clear instructions from someone in an intimate way — but not necessarily foreplay or sexual?
Like. Maybe this is allosexual BS but I’m genuinely struggling to understand how kink is non sexual.
I’m sure it can be!
I’m probably just not practiced in even trying, but I think I understand how cis het NTs feel.
I tend to say:
gender is about your experience of gender (shared construction of group identity? As it relates to methodology…?) and
sexuality is about your experience of wanting to do things with other people’s gender.
(Like to me, that’s really gd clear, obvious, and nigh incontrovertible.
IDEK how to break it down further.)
But like, subspace is a… flow state you feel on behalf of someone else’s directives?
Oh! Like being a hivemind or synchronised performance!
I have been referred to the (icr the other name for) Venn Diagram (or whatever) of therapy, D&D, and BDSM.
Oh yeah, don’t forget to check:
tyre pressures,
oil level,
brake fluid,
anti freeze, and / or
windshield wiper fluid.
My eventual working hypothesis:
So gender is just a cumulative methodology as group identity??
Which I now realise has basically nothing to do with figuring out what people mean by ‘subspace’.
Okokok: Queer Theory, on the veRantDa.
Gender is a collective methodology used as a group identity.
Sexuality is how you feel a (or no) physical urge to interact with others based on their gender.
Romanticism is how you feel a (or no) affiliation urge to interact with others based on their gender.
Aestheticism is how you feel a (or no) creative urge to interact with others based on their gender.
And then subspace is akin to
pre-sleep giddiness, loopiness,
zoned-out, peaceful flow of experience with altered perception of sensory inputs,
followed by sometimes sudden hormonal shifts?
Similar to but distinct from / *not* :
drunkenness, post-orgasm creativity / “post-nut clarity”, creative flow of ideas or practice (like drawing, performing, meditating).
@internet_ryan Happy to help! :D
I’m always hanging off my partner. I’d be physically against him like an angry blanket all the damn time if it were remotely feasible.
Best advice I ever got was from other autistic people tbh.
Family were prudish freaks and I grew up surrounded by americans,
so I physically could not force myself to say the word ‘masturbation’ out loud until around 22 y.o. or so.
Ohh!! Good source I only found recently https://www.youtube.com/@Trash-Garbage-Trash
@MxVerda Go team angry blanket!
Growing up repressed: felt, and it sucks.
Appreciate the additional link.
@msbellows a fun version of dissociation? But then, what does that have to do with sex?
I feel like I’m being rude, but I don’t intend to be.
@msbellows
Bwah! Ty.
I might be an odd person but those aren’t sexual for me.
They feel more like self-esteem, confidence, trust in my own capacity / capability to be skilled
@MxVerda It's an altered mental state, which can be induced by various activities that fall under the "kink" umbrella.
If someone used alcohol to induce the mental state of being drunk, that *could* be incorporated into a sexual experience, but it wouldn't have to be, right? People can also just enjoy that feeling on its own. Similar kind of deal.
@ErinPtah
Sweet! Thank you.
The best I’d come up with otherwise was “ Similar to autistic unmasking by (gentle / rough) force?”
@MxVerda Hm, I've heard extreme masking described like an altered mental state, so that might be in the same ballpark? Don't know enough about it to say for sure.
"By force" in this context suggests non-consent, so I wouldn't use that phrase. It's induced by another person, but when done right, the sub is participating because it's the state they want to end up in.
@MxVerda - I'm an allosexual with two ace partners (among other partners) and several other ace spectrum folks in my wider polycule, so I've got lots of experience separating kink and sex!
Subspace is a term that often gets misused, so that's probably where a lot of your confusion is coming in.
It refers specifically (and quite narrowly) to a mental state wherein a submissive/bottoming partner in a kink scene has achieved a sort of "zen" meditative state in which they are living fully in the moment and focusing exclusively on the scene at hand. It is extremely relaxing, and fully un-related to sex. A person might achieve subspace while cleaning a dominant partner's floors for them, or being tied up fully-clothed, or even just listening to a dominant partner speaking.
@Polywog wait. So then what counts as ‘kinky’ sex, specifically? (I should really go to bed but)
It sounds like anything that causes someone to want to do it / results in bliss or assuaged identity (but pleasurably) could be a kink?
Or maybe I need to differentiate with the words paraphilia and fetish at this point.
But like, oral sex used to be kinky af, apparently, and now it’s just “sex, lol”.
@MxVerda - haha you'll get a few different definitions for that, because both "sex" and "kink" are things that different people define in different ways!
Broadly, "kinky sex" is when you're doing both sexual activity and kink activity at the same time.
Some people make kink a huge part of their relationship and include it in a lot of different aspects of their time together. For them, all their sex is probably kinky sex because they are always "sceneing" together, to some degree. I personally happen to find that amount of roleplay exhausting! But for some people it's exciting to be "in character" at as many times as possible. For those people there would be an obvious difference between when they're just doing "kink" and when they're doing "kinky sex", though, because when they're (for example) doing the grocery shopping while including subtle kinky play (using titles for each other, making displays of service like opening doors or waiting for them to speak first, wearing hidden jewelry or underwear beneath their clothing, etc), well that's just kink not sex.
Other people only engage in kink play occasionally, so they might have some sex that's clearly "vanilla" (non-kinky) in nature and other times when they're dressing up, pulling out the riding crop, etc.
There's a whole spectrum between those things, obviously!
Edited to add: culture helps define what is kink in a given context. Oral, to take your example, was only kinky at a time and place when it was culturally taboo.