I wasn't always a Daddy.
In fact, I spent most of my adult sexual life being implicitly submissive, deprioritising my needs in favour of the needs of my partners.
If you were a fly on the wall back then, you would have typically seen me on my knees, licking, sucking on, eating out...essentially gorging myself...on pussy from all over the world, cute and tight, ugly and loose, hairy and trimmed, shaved and waxed...each and every one of them would cum from the attentions of my greedy mouth. Most would simply spasm. More special ones would leak rivulets of cum onto hotel bedspreads. The best would gush torrents into my face.
And if you looked closely, you'd see me masturbating as I ate - always deferring my needs to theirs.
It did my ego no harm knowing that I was good at eating pussy, but in time I came to realise how empty it left me feeling. A lot of my partners would be too worn out to give me handjobs, blowjobs or fuck me afterwards. And I wouldn't push the point - I would simply masturbate to get it over and done with.
This is what I mean by 'implicitly submissive' - happy to serve, but always left scrabbling for myself at the end.
I think my upbringing and resulting worldview drove me in that direction. My mother was very much a feminist and as a result I was indoctrinated in the history of modern patriarchy, its stunting effect on the personal growth of girls and women, its poisonous withering of their hopes and dreams. I was therefore always particularly conscious of the need to be respectful in my dealings with women, including in bed.
Some of the women I fucked did of course ask for the romantic aspects of sex to be roughened-up a little, but I always felt these desires were performative rather than genuine. You know the kind of thing - a bit of giggling at a light slap of the ass, a horny little smile from a playful pulling of the hair and the usual, overused, request to be fucked "harder". They communicated these things but didn't really seem to want them, and so I didn't really enjoy doing them. I figured it was simply best to show them that men can deliver intense orgasms with the powerful muscles of the lips, the tongue and the mouth. So I always put them first.
I suppose there must have been some acknowledgment on my part that I had a submissive streak: from my late teens, I became very interested in cross dressing and fantasising about acting the slut. When I finally had my own space, I spent a lot of money on women's clothing, with a particular fetish for the sluttier elements - crotchless panties, corsets, basques, short dresses, high heels. I would dress most days and fantasise about being used by men.
In time, I grew brave enough to live out my fantasies. I was soon meeting men through internet chat rooms and inviting them to my place to treat me like a piece of meat. I would get so turned on being pushed to my limits, offering every part of myself in complete service.
These are stories for another day, perhaps, and it's enough for now to say that towards the end of this period of wondrous experimentation I met a woman who changed the course of my life.
I was in my early thirties when we were married, and I slowly spread myself out lazily into all the usual corners of life: work, neighbours, friends, investments, pets, kids. My wife was beautiful, had a hot body and squirted hard. I was content.
During the next 13 years or so, we experimented sexually: dressing up (her, sadly), toys, mild BDSM, porn, mutual anal play (how little she knew of my interest there).