Normally, I reserve golden showers for special times and places. But I must admit, I did get into a momentary pissing match with my darling partner recently. It all started when Max said, "So, Consolidated Works is doing a party with a suspension theme, and they want me to bring some pretty girls and do some suspension-rope bondage." "Sounds cool," I said, and I asked him when it was happening. "February 20," he answered. "Oh, no," I said, "That's the night I'm doing the fetish performance at Club Medusa!" We mourned briefly about missing each other's events. Then I asked him whom he was going to ask to be his stunt bottoms. "Well, maybe Jane Duvall and Rose Algren," he said. "Hey, wait a minute," I replied. "I want them to perform with me at Medusa. You can't have them." We stared at each other, the horrifying truth dawning on us simultaneously: We were in competition for the same submissives.
Okay, so maybe I'm dramatizing this just a little; Max and I actually resolved the matter rather easily. But it was an amusing twist on the usual situation. You see, the perception in the kink community is that there are more submissives than there are dominants, and so attractive and competent tops tend to be in very high demand. It's flattering to be pursued, of course, but it can spoil you if you don't keep it in perspective. Neophyte dominants sometimes let it go to their heads and start acting like the world is their dungeon and everyone owes them a bootlicking. Kinksters call this "Top's Disease." Victims of the correlative syndrome, "Bottom's Disease," believe they are automatically inferior to any dominant, all the time, and engage in non-negotiated, weirdly servile behaviors toward any top they come into contact with.
I live to fuck with wrong-headed notions like this. While it might be true that your average single top can get a date faster than your average single bottom, Rose and Jane are definitely not your average bottoms. They've got the brains, the experience, and the attitude to be selective about whom they will grace with their submission. I think that's the way it should be, and I wish every submissive would value themselves this highly. That's so much more alluring than feeling like someone would grovel for anyone with a flogger and a nasty disposition. I just hope Rose and Jane don't mind me doing a little pissing in their front yards.
