June 24, 2007...9:21 pm

Burn the Switch

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So, the other night, Pan had his tongue a few clicks north of my vagina. (Oh, hello, this has suddenly become one of *those* blogs). And we’re getting damn close to my tipping point and do you know what he did? Do you know what that bastard did?

He edged me.

For, god, I don’t know, about seven hours, I think. Well that’s what it felt like, although in reality it may have been about forty seconds.

And you know what I said? Did I say, ‘Just you make me come this instant, slave, or I’ll flush the key to your CB down the lavatory.’

Uh. No. I said, ‘Uh. Oh. Oh, god, please.’

‘Cause, you know, far be it from me to start saying that everyone is a switch *really*, but no one is a fucking dom when they’re right on the edge of orgasm. No one’s body works that way.

Anyway, after the event related above Pan did get up with a rather smug expression and mutter something about, ‘Well, really, Bitchy Jones.’ (He did actually call me Bitchy Jones.)

And I told him, Fuck you, you think I can’t put that in my blog? I so can. And I am now going to flush the key to your CB down the lavatory.

(Which, you know, would have been a much scarier threat if he’d actually been wearing the thing at the time.)

But, really, my life is complicated enough without worrying about whether I might really and truly be a switch.

Just because I am not jack-booted and cat-suited 24 hours and day (or – actually – ever).

Just because I sometimes really want to come.

And, you know, up to a point, people can call themselves what they like. For example: you can call yourself a switch even if you only ever sub in real life because you have dominant fantasies too. You can call yourself a dom even though you have submissive fantasies because you’d never really want to do them.

It’s all so murky in the big puddle of kinky mud. You can own your own label. I don’t think labels are a problem if you get to chose your own and decide what it means – so long as you don’t start taking liberties with language.

Taking liberties with the language is more when you start saying that if you call yourself a dominant women you must mean you do X, Y and Z. (X, Y and Z probably being strap on sex, face sitting and feminisation – I would imagine from a few casual observations.)

And it does get tricky when you have women who are sub but dom-for-money call themselves switch. ‘Cause that just fuels the fucking fire of people who like to think that all women who call themselves dominant are in-denial-subs or pretending to be dom for money. Or prestige. Or annoying male doms for kicks.

Because it is always male doms who stand on this soapbox. When I get told all female doms are really whores – and I *do* – it is always by a male dom frustrated by the lack of submissive women and trying to make some extras out of random kinky bitches.

- Hey buster, there are loads of submissive women in the world painting their nails and twirling their handcuffs and just waiting for you to buff up and calm down. I know because they email me to see if I can bridge the gap.

(I really can’t. I know yet another of the tiresome dom woman tropes is automatically-bisexual but sorry not me, sister. Not with that pesky masculinity fetish of mine. Well, not unless you are unbelievably butch. And have a cock.)

Meanwhile, if you are a prodom who is really a sub I can’t see why you don’t say that. I guess it’s bad for business – you have to do all that banging on about being a *genuine* sadist (-I’m a 20th century reproduction sadist myself-) and making these weak little claims about “enjoying it” and getting a lot of satisfaction from what you do. Which is all fine – but not really sadism, which, sorry, involves your cunt.

Trust me. You really don’t need to wonder if you’re a sadist or not. If you’re wondering – you’re not. So just count yourself lucky. It really isn’t state to aspire to.

I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again. It’s my fucking blog. Sadism is not a superpower. Sadism does not maker you cleverer or better or sexier. Kinky people, in general, are not having a higher form of sex.

Oh, BDSM is so much better than vanilla sex because it involves the brain an not just the body and the brain is the biggest sex organ, bleh-de-bleh

*Fuck!* *Off!*

We are not having better sex. We are having stupider, expensiver, more time consuminger sex. That’s no kind of “better” that I understand.

Not better. Just different. Remember.

Mind you, having said that, I quite like it.

And I quite like submissive men. And I say this because I want them to remember the hundreds of thousands of words I have written about my intense burning love of them – possibly more than anyone else ever: I am life president of the male submissives fan club – while I ignore them for a bit (think of it as a hot abandonment thing) and talk about how much I love male switches.

Switches are hot.

First of all if a man says he’s a switch that is like him saying he’s gone away and thought about it and, know what baby, I’m just a total fucking pervert. Oh, I love that. I find that so attractive in a man. That sense of, oh, I just want everything that’s dirty and wrong. Bad, bad boy.

I love bad boys. I know what bad boys get.

And you know I like bravery. And you know I think submitting is brave. Being a male dom has it’s noble moments too. There are male doms who are hopeless, sexist idiots (see ‘discussion’ above) – but they aren’t the end of the story.

There are stigmas to being both a male dom and a male sub. I am proud of the fact that I am pretty out in my real life, but I do fully accept that being a dominant women is probably the easiest kinky sexuality to be out about. Probably due to that whole sense in which no one really believes it *really* turns me on. As I’ve said before, it is nicer (sexier, even) to be a whore than a slut these days and dominant woman sounds a little like whore in the wider world. Submissive woman, I think, sounds a little like slut. Slut with a mental illness.

Being a dominant woman kind of gets you a pat on the back and well done you, a lot of the time – at least until you start talking about blood or piss or abduction-rape or making men cry.

Interestingly, where being a submissive man is probably the most stigmatised *inside* the world of kink, being a dominant man is probably the hardest sexuality to be out about in the wider world. Vanilla people – even the most sex-positive enlightened ones – do tend to hear the words male dominant as sexually-inadequate, violent, serial-rapist.

Dominant women really don’t have to deal with that crap. Even though the wiring is all the same. Like I said before, I have looked at enough mandom porn to see that that is me with a penis.

I *get* Gor, I *get* bondage blow jobs, I*get* forced orgasms. (I don’t get forced to orgasm – calm down.) But I get pretty much all those things you do. But you know, Bastard Jones’s Diary is probably still a way off yet.

But let’s not cry to hard for Master Daddy though, he’s gets my porn quota. And really, I’d probably take the stigma to be the default gaze of all kink porn. I’m shallow like that.

But this does mean that somewhere inside me I have this little shred of respect for Mr Sir.

So I do like a brave strong man who decides to take on both ends of the stigma stick. And, over and above that, it is just a lot of fun to hurt a man who knows just what I’m doing. Who can tell me what to do. You know I have no discernable skills of topping. I love a man who can help me out. I need men who can lift me back up time and over, as I say. Switches really get that. They tend to be a bit more likely to get the part where I’m not just a right arm and a cunt.

And really? Really, really? Is there much hotter than watching a gorgeous capable man whipping someone whilst knowing that you are responsible for the marks all over *his* back?

Not that I do a lot of flouncing around in public – but I have once or twice been talked into it.

It’s also really dirty. Topping a man who gets off on topping too. Punishing the bad man for all the bad, bad things he’s done. This is just hot. You know what I’ve said before about the more power there is to exchange the hotter it is? Well there is a lot of stuff to play with and unpack in there if your man is a switch.

When he goes down he has a little further to go. That’s hot.

And you know that whole thing about how my heart belongs to daddy. It lives *right* here.

So, huh, yeah, switches – hot. And I should know. I live with one. Well, kind of. I probably *really* live with a terrible smart-mouthed faithless non-specific pervert – but that’s a long, long name for such a good looking man.

39 Comments

  • Fantastic!

    Sorry can’t think of anything else to say.

  • I loved what you had to say about switches, and think you’re spot on about power exchange.

    It’s the giving up of power that makes this work, and if you don’t have any power to give, I don’t see how it can work. I could program a prompt in BASIC (yes, I am old enough to know a little BASIC) that would, no matter what I typed in, respond with “Thank you, may I please have another?”

    This is about as submissive and powerless as it can get. And it is also boring as fuck all and about as erotic as an insurance seminar.

    Whereas…

    Let’s imagine a dom, tied up. Yes, that’s right, a dom tied up on a bed, naked. Unable to escape while the submissive does those wonderful things with their tongue that you were talking about earlier. Makes the dom twitch and moan and eventually orgasm.

    Then the sub unties the dom and hands them a belt.

    Fucking power exchange, man, the submissive had it all and still gave it back. The dom was confident enough to let the submissive have the power, confident that that they didn’t need ten pounds of black leather and latex, and could still feel in control even tied down to a bed. Works for me anyway.

    Your own mileage may vary of course.

    Great post, by the way.

  • The thing that makes being submissive so hot for me is exactly that distance that I have to go… enough, more than enough, power in my day-to-day life, makes that submission very sweet. I also fantasize about topping, though (especially when I come here)… you’ve really said so much that is interesting about the stigma attached to being a female sub or a male dom — even I, who have a lovely wonderful Dom whom I adore in my life (when I want to play, not 24/7), tend to think automatically that male doms must have some issues with self-esteem.

    You’re brilliant, Bitchy. :)

  • Thank you, thank you very much, but I should warn you that I’m really a terribly dull person.

    You’re probably better off just using me as a comment slut.

  • I’d be no good for you

  • Also, reticence really turns me on.

  • None of the good things in life ever are.

  • Also, reticence really turns me on.

    Oh, that is just totally unfair, what sort of chance does that give me?

  • Bitchy, you’re absolutely fucking delightful.

    You’re more than welcome to hurt me some time. That’s new ground, I’ve no idea at all if I’d just piss me the fuck off. But you just seem to be one of that very short list I think I might let try. Just because you’re such a goddamned pervert.

  • My problem with switches:

    1) if they expect tit for tat, that is, for ME to switch with them: I’ve been on the bottom, I don’t want to be there (oh well except for Pan’s version of edge play – guess I’d *allow* that [sometimes] :-)

    2) if the switch doms women: yeah I know, why should I care but it turns me off. If the switch doms another guy (and especially if I can watch!) okay, right, good, let’s go, THAT turns me on.

    “No one is a fucking dom when they’re right on the edge of orgasm” – maybe that’s where the “women doms don’t have sex with slaves” thing stems from…seeing your dom reduced to a blithering idiot while on the edge of orgasm (or in the middle of one) shoots holes the fantasy of the cold, detached femdom, eh what?

  • “And you know I like bravery. And you know I think submitting is brave.”

    I’m just going to get this tattooed on me somewhere if you don’t mind. It is so perfectly clear. And so deliciously stated.

  • I agree with Deb, it is quite likely they will want (or expect as they might be used to other switches) to be able to play the other role.

    I personally am a switch with my gf, and so is she. The number of times you can switch roles within one play session would surprise you…

  • Never had that problem. If that was something he needed he wouldn’t be able to get that from me.

    Really never been even an issue. But then, I am quite direct.

  • Edging is oh so underrated. I truly believe that for some people, that state right before orgasm is more pleasurable than the actual orgasm itself.

  • So true. There is something so wonderful about being on the brink of fulfillment and yet something so strangely anticlimactic about climax.

    If I were cleverer I would write such a good post about this and orgasm control and Lacanian psychoanalysis

  • That you mention it, my partner is an extreamly butch woman with a penis.

    Fancy that…

  • Switching rules :D !

    But my favourite part is the one where you tell BDSM isn’t a superior form of sex!I totally agree.

    Calling vanilla to other people just to manage some degree of distinction makes me remember those clubs ” X doesn’t enter”. Are those doms and subs so insecure they need to create such idea of superiority?!

  • Time for Vampyres stupid question – I wasn’t going to ask but I just have too – what is edging?

  • Edging is getting a partner just to the “edge” of orgasm, and then holding them there. Not letting them cum, but not letting them calm down either.

    Sometimes proceeded by the phrase, “If you want me to stop, just say ‘More.’” :)

  • It’s also called teasing.

  • It is what very, very bad submissives do to confuse doms

  • Thanks for explaining – I’m sure it want be my last idiot question, this blogs being very educational :/

  • We all switch in our lives. There is always an element of being dominant – or leading – or being submissive and following. it happens everywhere, all the time to everyone.

    For many of us, being submissive in a kinky context is, in fact, a switch from the rest of life. having done both the dominant and the submissive, the top and the bottom, I have seen it from both sides and yeah each comes with their own issues and challenges.

    The big one is the stigma, but, as with the rest of life i know that your reaction to me is just that: your reaction. It isn’t mine and I won’t take any responsibility or ownership for it. It’s not my dog.

    I self identify (to use that PC-ism) as just plain kinky most of the time and that’s the way i resolved the whole dom, switch, sub thing that some people get so hung up on.. There are things I do “for the most part” but overall, it’s just a knowledge that I am kinky, perverted, deviant, outside the norm…take your pick.

    And strength? The strength and power I have to exchange? Well, that’s the understanding I gained after a long while on the planet of dealing with a bunch of other people of all types and the understanding of what turns my crank and what doesn’t.

    It’s the power of not segrating my “real’ life from the kinky one. it’s the pwoer of knowing that all the people who put big stock in labels and categories are just at a point in their progress yet where they don’t fit with me. And I can just say no to them without feeling any pangs of anything other than the satisfaction of self knowledge.

    Thank you, Bitchy Jones for putting it into words far more elegantly (and eloquently) than most of can.

  • You said:
    ‘Cause, you know, far be it from me to start saying that everyone is a switch *really*, but no one is a fucking dom when they’re right on the edge of orgasm. No one’s body works that way.

    My reply:

    I’m not sure you can be certain on this unless you have interviewed every kinked up pervert on the planet. And while I am no Mega Femdom, not only have I never begged or pleaded to orgasm, I will either throw him off and finish myself (very unlikely scenerio but I’m not adverse to it) or I will insist that he finish me off immediately (works for me)

    I’m sure I’m not the only one.

  • You should try it. You can always spank him for it after.

    Sorry, that’s the wrong thing to say. What I meant was, of course you’re right. I was generalising again. Bad, bad me.

  • LoL! Most times when I try edging Eileen (for the fun of it, of course!!) she gives me a good hard bonk on the head and tells me to get on with it. Awfully fun, that bonk on the head. Even more fun, knowing I can get to her like that sometimes. :)

  • I thought everyone ‘edged’ all the time. Who wouldn’t pluck at someone’s pleasure elastic given the opportunity?

  • “As I’ve said before, it is nicer (sexier, even) to be a whore than a slut these days and dominant woman sounds a little like whore in the wider world. Submissive woman, I think, sounds a little like slut. Slut with a mental illness.”

    *Falls over laughing* thank you, I’ve been looking for a new term to use and Slut with a mental illness iss really right up my alley.

    I can definately commiserate with the issue of being accused that switches don’t exist, so glad to hear it’s not true.

    I’m tempted to make some comment about how much I love making boys cry from hitting themselves, because there’s something about self flaggellation that’s so incredibly deliciously hot to watch.

  • Great post.

    I like different things for different kinks (it is in my nature to just be as difficult as possible I think).

    For my sexually dominant self, a switch is fab. Let me hurt you however makes my panties wet and then grab me in strong masculine arms and fuck me into a whimpering orgasm. Meow. Happy.

    For my non-sexually dominant self (the one that you’d hate, Bitchy, sorry to say… laughing at small penises and dressing up men in frilly girl clothes and all of that and more … doesn’t ring my bell in a “boy am I going to jump on top of that humiliated lump” but rings my bell in a different, but evidently necessary way), I hate loathe avoid switches. There isn’t a moment where them switching into alpha male does anything but ruin the magic.

    But my kink is all confused, it swamps both sexuality and other areas.

  • You can too be dominant on the edge of orgasm.

    Take the pretty little person you’ve abused earlier, grab them by the back of the head by their hair, and pull them onto you. Fuck their face. Grind into them. Tell them you’re using them for your pleasure. Take a moment to pull them off you, slap them, and then grind again while telling them how fucking sexy they suffer.

    Come hard, come long, and then flop backwards, exhausted, and say “I’m a pretty princess, dammit, go get me some water and a towel.”

    Or whatever your post-sex ritual is, I hate being sweaty and all that mouth breathing makes the thirsty. :)

  • I’m a sadist. But it doesn’t have very much to do with my cunt.. just putting that out there.

  • Ah. I meant sexual sadist – I don’t always differentiate when I should

    Lazy me.

  • its very sexy the way you explained yourself Lotus.

    i like girls who is in command.

  • Just thank-you, that’s all.

  • Im having great difficulty understanding Sue’s post.

    “For my sexually dominant self, a switch is fab. Let me hurt you however makes my panties wet and then grab me in strong masculine arms and fuck me into a whimpering orgasm. Meow. Happy”

    “For my non-sexually dominant self I hate loathe avoid switches”

    What then is it that is fab about a switch to Sue that appeals to her sexually Dominant self as opposed to the alternate procceeding “however” text which talks about what in essence comes across as a sexually submissive side?

    You are implying that you like to Dominate and dont like to Dominate a switch in a double negative.

    What is a non-sexually Dominant self anyway? I dont think I would like to Dominate anyone unless they where getting off on it. As for Dominating a man there is always a woman tying him up and F***ing him, or even better gang F***ing him although personally I’m monogamous.

    If you search youtube for “Kirsten Bell Dominatrix” there is a clip on there somewhere in which at the end she elbows him, calls him a bad name, throws him down then straddles him and starts zipper sex.

  • “Ah. I meant sexual sadist – I don’t always differentiate when I should”

    I think there are too many pitfalls of miss-communication on the net, for instance how the description of a sexual sadist being someone whos loins like it in the way its a transcention of the physicalities of conventional sex being possibly mistaken for the latter?

    Just saying.


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