by Calpurnius Erex
Being a true Dom/Domme is not doing anything you want, it's about your overwhelming responsibility to your sub. You are trusted, beyond any ordinary concept of lover, spouse, parent. Consent to submission is conferral of an ultimate burden. The Dom/Domme is no more free than the captain of a starship or the CO of a SEAL Team. The sub is not a possession, s/he is sacred, a responsibility greater than any other. Now to offend the Bible-bashers: "The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hireling runs away when the wolf comes." If that is not the Dom/Domme's touchstone, their lodestar, their credo, then they are mere Sadists and unworthy of the title Dom/Domme.