The all purpose "please"

Greetings,

The BDSM community has a real thing about words and labels. I have written on this in the past. There is certainly a lack of consensus about words such as "Master" "slave" "Dominant" "Submissive", etc. Even basic concepts such as punishment, slavery, service, etc, are open to a great deal of personal interpretation. That's okay. I have no problem using other people's definition in a conversation as long as we know what they are.

However, there are some words which can be used in many ways, all of them correct, and no real definitions are required. A good example is the word "please". Here is an excerpt from an email that was sent to me a little while back.

Sometimes it's "please....fuck this girl", sometimes it's "please...let this girl suck your cock", sometimes it's "please... let this girl cum", sometimes it's "please... don't stop", sometimes it's "please...do it again", sometimes it's "please...make it hurt", sometimes it's "please...make it hurt more", sometimes it's even "please....stop making it hurt". But much of the time, it's uttered in an entirely reflexive way, with no specific meaning attached, just because it feels so damn good and right to say it. In other words, begging has become arousing in and of itself, and is also at the same time an expression of one's arousal, such that the magic word "please" is just so very much the perfect word, moaned in the throes of sexual ecstasy.

Nice, yes? Of course, the writer was speaking of using the word during a session, but one can see how it could be used at almost anytime. For example "May I serve you, please? or "May I please have permission to go to the bathroom?", etc. Many many ways.

For those of you already in a D/s relationship, why not try having an entire evening when your submissive is only allowed to use this single word to communicate? This way tone, inflection, volume, etc, would be very important in understanding what was being asked. This would focus the submissive's attention as well as the Dominant's. I think the results would be interesting.

Or, like the girl who wrote that email, how about a session where that was the only word allowed.

Hmmm... now that might be interesting indeed.

Be seeing you,