What makes you submissive?

[Sir_Russell]

All I can say to all of this is after the decades in this lifestyle and more then a few sub/slaves it is a theme that I have seen many times. This isn't scientific but it has been my experience.

Not truly shocking since the stats I have seen show that at least 25% of the women in this country have admitted to being abused sexually. That is a very high % in that study to admit that.

As far be broken I don't buy that either, I have been around the block a few times and I am not looking to have a slave that is damaged. Course aren't we all damaged by life and we either find a way to get over it and grow stronger or we get a nice soft padded room to live in.

I was whipped by mommie dearest to the point that I have ribbon scars on my back that show up when I get really angry. That sure didn't make me a sub, even then I was very much a Dom.

[TomOfSweden]

Not truly shocking since the stats I have seen show that at least 25% of the women in this country have admitted to being abused sexually. That is a very high % in that study to admit that.

I've mentioned it before here. A couple of years ago there was a Swedish study where they asked 18 year old women if they had ever been the victim of sexual assault. Things like unwelcome groping was included. The result was 100% of all Swedish women had by the time they were 18 had at least once been the victim of sexual assault. And with our adamant stance on equaliy hammered into Swedish boys, I doubt Sweden is any worse than anywhere else. Quite possibly less sexual assault.

A bit simplistically put, if sexual assault leads to masochism and all women have been assaulted sexually, all women should be masochists. There must obviously be other factors at play. I mean, if a submissive/masochistic women would search her past and find an instance of sexual abuse and use that as an explanation, we are in fact only presenting an illusion of an explanation. No matter how severe the sexual assault was, we have in fact no reason to believe there's a connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc