I've been pondering this idea for a few days now. Is withdrawing attention from someone the harshest of punishments, especially in a D/s relationship?
We've all seen pictures, or videos of various punishments being meted out in the BDSM world, some simple and some outrageous, some innovative and some exotic, and in real life I've engaged in quite a few of them. However, I haven't gone as far as to completely withdraw any attention from my sub.
In effect, if I were to do so as a punishment, then it would leave my sub without that relationship in place for as long as I chose to do it. Now, to be clear here, I'm not talking about putting her in a room, tying her up and leaving her there on the other side of a closed door. I'm talking complete absence.
No conversation, no phone calls, emails, text messages, no communication. No personal interaction, no friendly banter, no touching, no comfort knowing the other person is around.... I'm talking no presence whatsoever. Completely and utterly ignoring your existence.
Add into that a carefully manipulated doubt that they may not come back again, and give that seed time to grow. Is that as cruel as you can get between a Dom and a sub?
Utter coldness, lack of caring, complete isolation from the relationship that was there. Wouldn't that induce grief for the partnership, yet an appreciation for what was there all along? What may be lost?
I know there's a few submissive readers of this blog, and I'd be interested in your thoughts on this subject. Would the loss of your Dom for an undisclosed amount of time, with the doubt that they were ever coming back, be the worst punishment they could inflict on you for a transgression?
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JJ