All Comments on 'Melissa's New Position Ch. 14'

you write well, and perhaps that's why it resonates, the way you explained men's interest in anal sex being due to knowing it hurts and being able to do it anyway seriously creeped me out, makes you think about what scum some people are that they delight in hurting others... When it comes to domination, I can understand the appeal of control, but not of causing pain... If this goes into that direction, perhaps this story should be in another category...

The only thing that I agree with Anon on that this story has evolved so that it's now in the wrong category. Melissa now very willingly accepts her role and everything that's required of her. No punishment needed or even the threat thereof.

That brings me to the second remark. People (sadists) who hurt other people, consenting to be hurt (masochists) are not scum. I can very well understand Dorn's remark about the reason that people enjoy to hurt others by painfully stretching them anally. Apart from the sexual and physical part, it is a very spiritual thing that someone is prepared to suffer to bring the first person joy. That's why submissives and masochists are so appreciated by their dominants/sadists.

That having said, I tremendously like this series and even more where I think it's going. Keep up the good work!

Thanks to both Anon and Cindy1001 for their kind words and thoughtful critique of this story.

Non-consent, and I’d argue reluctance as well, is essentially about power. In the Melissa series I have been trying to explore different aspects of how power and consent interact. I hope you have had the chance to read all the chapters from the beginning. I’ve focused on the reluctance dynamics up to now, and have hoped to tease out some of the dynamics involved in that, though it is with intention that we have moved from significant apprehension and reluctance to something more like acceptance. Her experience with Dorn, her ambivalence about not wanting to be hurt but wanting to please him, still creates tension for her, even if I have not made that as clear as I could have. And, our experience changes how we experience things. Adding pain and pleasure and their beginning to blur is part of that, adding to her confusion about what consent actually means.

The next chapter will also explore mild reluctance, though again because Melissa has to adapt to something new more than it being something that is horrible for her. It interests me how this adaptation takes place, hopefully shining a little light on the nature of reluctance itself.

After that, the story will explore non-consent, and power, far more directly. I hope to examine where reluctance and non-consent overlap and where they are different. Again with some interest in how people adapt to each.

Thanks for taking the time to join me on this rather long, slow trip as I explore these dynamics.