ACCEPTANCE

--Master M

I’m normal.   I’m a bi-sexual Dominant Master with a capacity for both caring and sadism, and I’m normal.  Kelly is a slave..  she has, of her own free choice, given herself to me in service.  And she is normal.  What is exceptional is that we accept our uniqueness and use it to create happiness in our lives.

 Kinsey’s research showed anyone who cared to look that what is normal is variety.  Every individual is unique, everyone has their own set of desires and needs that is not exactly duplicated in any other individual.

 Put sexuality on a continuum and it’s easy to say that only the center of that continuum is normal.  The farther out you get on the fringes, the more abnormal it becomes.   Let’s bend that continuum into a circle.  Now we have a representation where no one point on the circle is any more valid –or normal-- than any other point.

 In my lifetime I have seen a huge shift in the common consciousness toward acceptance of others, acceptance of differences.  I have seen leaps in racial and gender equality, sexual equality.  Homosexuality and homophobia are becoming topics that can be discussed openly.  Sexual variation and experimentation have made their way into mainstream media.  We still have a  long way to go, but progress in the area of acceptance is being made every day, one person at a time.

 People fear what they don’t know, what they can’t understand.  The more information we can disseminate, the more understanding we can spread around, the less fear we leave behind.  Through being ourselves, being living examples, being willing to share what we know about ourselves, we create more acceptance and less fear.

 Over the past several years we’ve experienced an administration who’s main goal has been to  create less acceptance and more fear.  Their strategy has been fairly successful on many levels, unfortunately.  As we enter the second half of 2006 I believe we are starting to see a backlash of people no longer  buying into that program and that fear.  Dissension that was mostly underground is emerging into the mainstream.  More people are finding permission to think for themselves.  It is my hopeful belief that, having gone backwards for 6 years,  the momentum is shifting toward another great stride forward in how we perceive others.   Beyond the variety and differences we are all  part of the same unity and oneness.

--Master  M

8-9-06