tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818022341462530878.post1629882910550038589..comments2023-05-30T06:38:34.054-04:00Comments on Rope Springs Eternal: Is It Torture Yet?Mac K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17785320472632647157noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818022341462530878.post-11877038938867921042009-04-08T13:57:00.000-04:002009-04-08T13:57:00.000-04:00I wish there were more articles such as this. I wi...I wish there were more articles such as this. I wish there were more comments on this issue of empathy.<BR/><BR/>This is the core, this is the kernel of it all to me. Faced with a partner who exhibits no empathy, it is the road of torture. It is the path to confusion, dismay.<BR/><BR/>You put your life, your health, and perhaps your future mental health in the hands of one who is seriously into bdsm, you better know his or her empathy level. <BR/><BR/>In the beginning of our wanderings into kink, bdsm, we are only vaguely aware of this necessity, and we mess up. In the excitement, the loins overcome the brain.<BR/><BR/>But faced with someone who truly has no empathy, it becomes the pathology of pathologies. It is not only dangerous, but mind numbing. If you survive something like that, you also pay a price. <BR/><BR/><BR/>>>Sadism is an intimate act. To be sadistic is to stay close to the authentic feelings of one's partner in the act<<<BR/><BR/>This is the ideal, what we hope for, Mac, but I don't think always the case. There are those sadists who do not acknowledge the humanity in their partners because they have buried their own. Though they would be the first to sprout that they are 'ethical sadists'. <BR/><BR/>JaneAsobimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661326504398833746noreply@blogger.com