Maledom vs. Femdom

Ahem:

Now, clearly it *does* matter to some people whether the person who’s dominating them is male or female, and the question is, why? Is it only because their sexual preference is one way or the other? If so, then again there should be just one domination, and anything that was valid for male domination would be valid for female domination, for the most part.

Intuitively, I don’t feel this is true, but I’m a horrible test case. Still, at least one person has looked explicitly at this question, and produced a short article on the difference in *style* between female and male domination. (I think his nick is “Master Kinx.”) As well-written as it is, though, it’s only one viewpoint. I’m interested in what people on this newsgroup think are the major *inherent* differences.

This is a complex question; there are lots of possibilities and issues to consider:

1. Take heterosexual relationships: maledom/femsub on one hand, and femdom/malesub on the other. How do “typical” approaches differ? How are they affected by the presence or absence of simple vanilla sexual desire? (People and relationships being what they are, there is bound to be a huge amount of scatter, so any distinction will be of course very general and very broad.)
2. Take malesub relationships: maledom/malesub vs femdom/malesub. How do *these* differ, assuming the participants are homosexual in the first case and heterosexual in the second?

Male vs Female Domination

Originally posted 2009-03-11 17:15:57.

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