What is dominance, really? What is submission? Where is the line between the two, and where is the distinction drawn? Some see the roles as defined by actions. The dominant dominates, the submissive submits. This is fine, but in these actions, what is dominating, and what is submitting? Are there certain actions that are "dominant," and certain actions that are "submissive," without question? Surely the act of giving a command is dominant, and the act of following it is submissive, but what about the nature of the command? It is commonly thought that the administering of pain is the domain of the dominant and the receiving of pain is the domain of the submissive, but what if the command is to administer pain? It becomes a submissive act, because it is being carried out by the submissive to please the desires of the dominant.
Let us look at another example, perhaps the benchmark for determining the dominant partner and the submissive partner even in relationships that are not overtly based upon the principles of domination and submission, the giving of oral pleasure. A woman on her knees before a man, his hands in her hair, her lips wrapped around his thick, engorged manhood, pleasuring him with her lips and tongue, the most scandalous of sounds rising from her lips as she gently but insistently sucks his aching shaft to ecstasy. Surely the woman using her mouth for such a thing, perhaps one might even say the man using her mouth for such a thing, is a submissive act, isn't it? It can be.
However, let us look at it another way. The man entrusts to her a part of his body that, to most men, means almost as much as their very life, if not more. With her lips and tongue, she can bring him untold pleasure. Yet, there are her teeth. So close at hand, always just out of reach, yet, if she chose, with them, she could unleash upon him agony nearly beyond measure. She may wildly, wetly, frantically slurp him until he explodes, or ever so slowly tease him until his entire body aches for release. It is her choice, and hers alone. From choice comes power, and from power comes domination. Within the sweet embrace of her mouth, he is entirely hers, his fate is in her hands. Passion or pain, teasing or pleasing, it is all completely up to her.
Such thoughts were always present in the mind of Monique, the Mistress of a wonderful, devoted slave boy. He was tall, tan, muscular, handsome, and well-endowed; the dream of quite a few women, the sort of creature that inspired lust at her very glance. And he was hers. Indeed, Monique was gifted. She knew it, too, and was never one to take her wonderful pet for granted. She would lavish attention upon him, especially in the bedroom, where many a long, hot night was spent in intense lovemaking of every variety.
She loved to go down on him, to pleasure or torment him with her mouth, to reward or punish all with a flick of her lips or her teeth. He, for his part, like any red-blooded male, loved the attention of a woman's sweet mouth on his aching, needy shaft. Hot, fast, and dirty, or sensual and slow, she had as many styles of lovemaking with her mouth as she had moods, every word she could speak translated into a motion of her mouth for him. This time, her style of choice was slow but steady, a gentle slurp as her head bobbed up and down in a steady rhythm, each stroke prompting a soft gasp from her slave, an occasional flick of her tongue prompting a bit louder of a moan.
"Do you enjoy this, my love?" she asked, pulling him out of her hot, tight mouth, stroking him gently with a soft hand while she looked up at his adoring eyes with a fire in hers.
"Oh, yes Mistress..." he gasped back, almost lost in another world of delight from his Mistress's mouth, but he had to remember to be attentive to her, and answer her queries, even in this state.
"Mmm, love, you don't seem to be entirely sure," replied Monique, flicking her tongue over the swollen head, teasing, tormenting. "I would stop, if you weren't sure, after all."
"Oh, no Mistress, I am quite sure," he replied, breathing heavy.
"Are you?" Monique asked, a smirk forming on her lips, her hand sliding down the shaft slowly, each finger slowly pulling away. "I don't think you are. I think you want me to stop, but you are too good of a slave boy to say so. I will not put you through it any more, however."
"No, Mistress," he protested, "please, no. I do not deserve to feel Mistress's wonderful mouth on my cock, but if it pleases her to do so, then it definitely pleases me to receive it. Please Mistress, please don't stop..."
Monique raised an eyebrow. "What did you say, love?"
"I said, please Mistress, please don't stop..." he replied, becoming slightly nervous now, feeling as though he may have said something wrong.
"No, before that," Monique said, gently stroking him, reassuring yet teasing at the same time. "About where my mouth is, what I am doing..."
"I said that I loved to feel Mistress's mouth on my cock, if she..."
Monique interrupted. "On your cock?"
"Yes, Mistress."
Monique smiled devilishly. "Is it really yours, love? To whom do you belong, body and soul? Who possesses you?"