In defense of the title “Mistress.”

It’s my birthday. My wife sent me photos of herself in the new outfits we bought, as well as some simple nude shots. They are safely buried away securely on my hard-drive, no pun intended. We were chatting on Gmail about how much I adore her and need to be dominated next week when we see each other, when, out of nowhere, she commanded me to touch myself…

I ran back to where I could lay down, and she proceeded to describe to me a fantastic scenario in which I was bent over a table, and she was hitting me with her new riding crop while masturbating me. Then she described throwing me to the ground and pissing on me. Then, as I got close to coming in real life, she started ordering me to come. “Come.” “I said COME.” Relentless orders. Demanding. Strong. Unyielding. “Come.” And I did.

Happy Birthday, right?

Here’s the thing — when she’s dominating me, I’m high on pain and pleasure and submission. I don’t think. That’s not my job. She’s told me thinking too much is a problem for me, and domination is the cure. I should be a happy little pet and just obey. Be a good boy and just take orders and don’t think. And even her talking like that makes me hot in the cheeks and hard and high and submissive.

When she’s in charge, I react, I obey, and I do what she tells me to do. My thoughts are narrowly focused on a) her pleasure, b) my pleasure or pain, whichever is going on at the time, and c) following her orders. That’s it. It’s part of why I love submitting — my brain turns off and it’s all about simple things — feeling, obeying, performing. Not thinking. Fuck thinking. Being strong enough to take the beating she’s giving me? Confident enough to weather her demands while she violates my ass? Definitely. Thinking? Screw that. It’s off the menu. I’m on as close to autopilot as I can humanly get, and if that’s subspace, then perfect.

And when my brain is on low-powered submissive slave mode, I call my wife Mistress. She’s my Mistress. And I’m her slave. And if we were in public, I would feel weird. I would feel affected and grasping and like I was “performing.” But when it’s her and me — on the phone, on chat, in person — it doesn’t feel weird. It’s perfect. Mistress is a good title because she is my Mistress. She’s my Master. She’s my Lady, and my Queen, and my Goddess, and I know those names sound cheesy in the light of day — but when I am on my knees and licking her feet and worshipping her and begging to be hit or to be allowed to make her come or sodomized or to have sex with her, when she seems three inches taller and she’s toying with my dick while skinning my back with a belt, or scratching bloody furrows in my flesh while making me hold her intense blue-eyed gaze, the feeling I feel is worship, because you worship a queen or a goddess and I have never felt anything like what she does to me before. She’s powerful and strong and I am weak and we love it.

I am unashamed for calling it what it is. I am nothing for the duration of those beautiful peaks (or valleys, depending on how you look at them) and she is the world. And if she asked me to let her cut her name into my belly with a knife, the only fucking words out of my mouth would be, “Yes, Mistress.” And when she was finished cutting her name into my belly, and she was pissing onto the bleeding symbol of her ownership — and she pissed on the wounds she scratched into me this last time we saw each other, and it was marvelous — I would thank her for her piss and try to keep from coming without permission.

I do not have the words to describe submitting to her ownership and basking in her power, but that feeling is what this whole fall through the rabbit hole is all about. Because I’m not thinking, I’m obeying, and she has all the power, and as she fucks me and calls me names, as she beats me and taunts me because she wants me to think she believes I’m too weak to take her beating, as she shoves her cock down my throat and smiles as I gag on that thick strap-on — and there may be nothing on this Earth hotter than trying to choke that cock down while looking up at her with wide eyes as she smiles cruelly at me and thrusts her hips to hit my gag reflex — I am filled with a kind of joy that nothing in my sex life has ever come close to. It is perfect and it wraps my brain and my cock and my heart in a knot, and I am nothing and she is everything, and I just want to come thinking about it.

I have resisted all of the cheesy terms of address in this blog, because they seem awkward in the light of day, and because I read the blogs of a lot of female dominants - and Bitchy Jones, and I have no idea what to call her, but thank God for her, because she’s the one who got my wife and I to try golden showers thanks to her blog descriptions — and they have been doing this longer than me, and a lot of them look down on this terms of address, and it does sound cheesy and affected when they talk about it. Really. I can’t deny it.

But this blog is about being honest for me, and honestly, she’s my Mistress. Capital “M” dominant Mistress, the female equivalent of “Master,” and if there’s nothing wrong with it when she’s tearing my ass up with a belt or her cock or her new riding crop, then there’s nothing wrong with it here, in this blog, where I’m exposing myself to the whole world. (Potentially. I think it actually works out to, like, a hundred or so people who read this. And I love every one of you, and I’ll update my blogroll to reflect all of you who have been wonderful enough to comment in the next couple days.)

I’ve felt weird because I talk all the time about “my wife” this, “the wife” that, but you know what? She’s my Mistress. I’m her slave. That’s how it works, and I don’t care if it’s affected, goddamn is it hot. It is perfect. And from now on, that’s how she’ll be here.

Posted in Terms of Address.

7 Responses to “In defense of the title “Mistress.””

  1. mickimichele Says:

    I have put you in my blogroll because you have such heart, and soul in your blog. I thank you fromone submissive to another,because having your blog to read, along with others enable all of us to feel less alone in our needs and desires. Your mistress must feel very proud. micki

  2. Tom Allen Says:

    Don’t miss the point: What Beej complains about mostly is the stereotypes and arbitrary rules that some people in the community seem to follow blindly.

    By all means, if you and your wife like the title, then use it. But use it because you both like it, and not because you feel the need to follow some script, or because of the conventional wisdom that “everybody does it,” or because that’s how it’s portrayed on TV.

    And more power to you both!

  3. undertheboot Says:

    Don’t miss the point: What Beej complains about mostly is the stereotypes and arbitrary rules that some people in the community seem to follow blindly.

    By all means, if you and your wife like the title, then use it. But use it because you both like it, and not because you feel the need to follow some script, or because of the conventional wisdom that “everybody does it,” or because that’s how it’s portrayed on TV.

    You’ve probably got the right of it, Tom. I think the place I’m coming from is that my only contact with the larger BDSM subculture is through these blogs, and there’s been a lot of talk about terms of address. (I think Eileen wrote about them a few weeks ago, too, so I’m certainly not singling out BJ.)

    And on the one hand, I mean, I’m the first person to admit they sound cheesy. I’m still nervous about all of this an the last thing I want to do is turn this hot sexy thing I’m doing into a joke. And I have heaped enormous scorn on people who want to spell their names with “y”s in place of “i”s and faux-Celtic faery names and all the rest of it in my time, so there’s this cynical part of me that thinks calling my wife “Goddess” is just weird.

    But at the same time, I was coming off that pseudo-high of having my wife talk dirty to me on the phone and chat, and she was using that language that just makes me turn into a ball of putty, and I realized, the entire time we were doing that, she was my Mistress. And it’s hot. It’s not cheesy at all when it’s going on, it’s the exact opposite. I can see why it doesn’t work for some people, and when I hear people talk about the baggage that comes with the pop-culture Mistress Dark Pain stereotype, I even understand why some people would think it’s undesirable.

    But goddamn is it hot. I don’t know, if it’s that hot, how can it be wrong? :) I’m a newcomer, I don’t want to be a lame tourist, I don’t want to be one of these awful caricatures, but … it’s so hot.

  4. undertheboot Says:

    I have put you in my blogroll because you have such heart, and soul in your blog. I thank you fromone submissive to another,because having your blog to read, along with others enable all of us to feel less alone in our needs and desires. Your mistress must feel very proud. micki

    Thank you so much, that means a lot. As soon as I get the time to update my blogroll, I’ll return the favor.

    The anonymity helps the heart and soul right now. :) I don’t know if I’d be half so bold and honest if people I knew could find this.

  5. Eileen Says:

    In my defense, I wrote about titles only long enough to mention that I really don’t give a shit about them. I agree with Tom, and with your own conclusion: do what you want to do, do it because you want to do it.

    I’m a newcomer, I don’t want to be a lame tourist, I don’t want to be one of these awful caricatures

    As for that, really, I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you. Your sex life comes first, the kinky community comes second.

  6. undertheboot Says:

    As for that, really, I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you. Your sex life comes first, the kinky community comes second.

    My wife read my post and said, “You worry too much about stupid things,” so I think she agrees with you.

    I think this would be less of a big deal with me if it wasn’t something I felt was really odd before I ever got into real D/s. Whenever I heard anybody using titles anywhere, I thought it was awfully cheesy. And whenever I hear anybody else say that they’re wrong, for whatever reason, that part of me is like, “See? See!?”

    But then there’s the newer part of me, which is now into this, and which likes titles. Which, if I do say so, loves the hell out of them. And it’s hard to reconcile the two. My wife’s great gift is that she’s so unself-conscious about everything — my problem is that when I allow myself to think, which usually happens when I’m not getting any domination, I start undermining things which work just fine. Like the titles.

  7. Mistress160 Says:

    Your post really made me smile.

    I too used to dislike the term Mistress, but I now use the title because that’s what solipsist loves to call me … and why are we doing what we do, if not to add to the pleasure of our partners?

    At first I found the title just … wrong. But as I gained confidence and real time experience, and being of the old school that says a female dominant may move from the title Domme to Mistress if she has significant experience and owns a human being, I grew more comfortable with it. Now it is simply a part of me. But you would probably not be surprised how much flak I receive (mostly from other women) for using it!

    Ms160
    http://www.Mistress160.blogspot.com
    http://www.fetishlore.com

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