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An insightful read , as usual, Mark. However from what I understand of this lifestyle, the dominance and submission isn't always "gruesome" as you have suggested, nor is it even necessarily about the application of pain on one person toward the other (like S&M), but rather it's about one person accepting a powerless submissive position under another who is considered, and accepted, as their superior. It can be about a complete transfer of power and not about any pain. The submissive finds "freedom" in the abandonment of all her rights and privileges as she accepts the unquestioned rule of her superior (and there are of course male submissives with female dominants, as well). Clearly this is not a Godly perspective since none of us are superior in the eyes of our omnipotent God, who sees us as equally sinful, yet equally loved and forgiven. So for what it's worth, this is just another wave in this rather raucous Tsunami that we're all surfing!

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