KafkaOffTheBeach said:
Geo Da Sponge said:
B) Everyone knows those sub/dom contracts don't really mean anything.
Really?
I always thought they were mainly for legal purposes, considering the often risky nature of sub/dom/BDSM physical relationships?
Or am I clueless to the romance inherent in a liability waiver?
EDIT
Punctuation is not my friend tonight.
Well I'l admit my real life experience is exactly vast, but from what I've gathered no one really bothers with liability waivers when they're just starting out. Not because the idea of legal protection is madness, but because you probably wouldn't want it to be doing it with someone who feels the need to protect themselves from legal retribution. You should really just trust someone before you experiment with something like this, and writing up a legal document of what someone can do to you doesn't exactly scream trust. I know I wouldn't want to be tied to a bed while thinking "I'm glad I signed away some of my rights for this!". That's where the mutual trust comes in; the sub trusts the dom to not go too far, the dom trusts the sub to not sue them.
The sub/dom contracts only really come up with longer term relationships and then it's mainly a symbolic thing. You know, a contract saying that the dominant partner 'owns' the other one and writing up rules for how they must be properly served. Purely theatrical stuff which would probably get more than a few raised eyebrows in a court room.
I mean, I might be completely wrong since it's hard to get a measure of how different people treat a very individualistic experience like BDSM relationships, but that's my point of view on it.
