Munch Notes/Agenda - Role Play - 10th Dec 2020

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Role-Play

 

Role Play is a way for people to enact scenarios or roles that may not be feasible or possible in their current reality. Role Play can occur online or in real time.

 

 What types of role play scenarios have you all come across or heard of before?

 

·        The Stranger

·        The doctor/ patient, nurse

·        The teacher/ student

·        The boss, manager, corporate CEO/ secretary, employee

·        The Cheerleader

·        The Interrogation

·        The ***er

·        The Nun/ Priest

·        The Prostitute/ Stripper

·        The Vampire

·        The Maid

 

Both parties need to be aware that a role play is going to occur and to have agreed on ground rules for it. What suggestions do you all have for ways to make role play more consensual and risk aware?

 

·        Clear limits

·        Setting time duration for the role play.

·        Agreeing on the triggers.

·        If Consensual Non-Consent is involved ensuring every detail is communicated before hand as there will be little room for communication during the roleplay.

·        Safe words

·        Considering any disabilities or conditions.

·        Ensuring both parties are aware of any risks unless the surprise is a part of the roleplay. Then it is important to inform of the variety of risks that may be possible.

 

 

When preparing for role plays in real life there are often props, clothing and other items that are used. How important do you think having the right clothing and equipment is compared to creating the right atmosphere?

 

·        Some role plays are more costume based.

·        A medical based role play is hard to do without some medical equipment.

·        If you do not have the right items creativity and adjusting the scenario can work just as well.

·        Rather than having to get a uniform to do an interrogation scene as the interrogator you could blindfold your prisoner, it is a lot cheaper.

 

Now we may get to the contentious area so please respect everyone’s viewpoint here and remember they are all valid, thanks folks.

 

Role play can also provide an interesting way for people to explore roles and archetypes in the BDSM world.  While there is a difference between a D/s or M/s dynamic and a roleplay.  Do you think roleplay is a useful way to explore roles in BDSM?

 

·        Online roleplay of a role is probably a safer way to explore a role.

 

Can exploring another role, initially, with roleplay, give you a deeper appreciation of your D/s partners?

 

·        I am a god-awful sub, I can technically do it, but I cannot for the life of me stop Topping from the bottom on a massive scale. It taught me to appreciate my submissives far more and to see the strength it took to be a good sub at times.

 

How do beginners tell the difference between those who are RPing a role and those who are authentically Dominant or submissive?

 

Within BDSM we recognise quite a few archetypes that are by their very nature roleplayed to an extent. For example, puppies are not actual puppies. What examples can you think of?

 

·        Puppy play

·        Baby girl / boy

·        Age play (non-regressive)

·        Kittens

·        Vampire

·        Wolf

·        Pony play

 

Do you think these are roleplay or are they somehow different?

 

·        The submissive in puppy play is a totally authentic submissive. It is only the way that the submission is demonstrated that may fall under puppy play.

·        Or is it just that the submissive or Dominant uses the Archetype to show what their authentic selves are really like.

 

Is there anyone here who can explain ***d feminisation/ sissification? My understanding is that it is a roleplay that is separate from Trans-gender. I am not certain, and I am interested in learning where this sits on the role play to authentic self spectrum?

 

·        Sissification, is a practice in dominance and submission or kink subcultures, involving reversal of gender roles and making a submissive partner take on a feminine role, which may include cross-dressing. 

 

Are there any points I missed, topics that should have been raised or any questions that scrolled by too fast.

 

Thank you all for being such a great crowd and having such wonderful and inciteful comments. Have a brilliant rest of your day and Give yourselves a big hand to.

 

Archetype [ ahr-ki-tahyp ] –

1.           the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.