Curing the submissive gene
A couple of days ago, I was browsing D/s related topics online and I came across the term usage of DSR. One would think that in learning that DSR stands for Dominate Submissive Relationship that there would follow a whole slew of information about D/s in the lifestyle but that was not the case. DSR is a scientific term used in the study of lab animals while developing new medications to cure mental disorders.
The scientific community feels that being dominate is a positive human trait while being submissive is not. They align being submissive alongside depression as a personality disorder that needs to be cured. One way in which they want to cure the “submissive gene” is through medication and what better way to develop a human medication directed at manipulating our brains than through the old standard of lab mice using only one form of basic testing.
The basic test is called the Water Test. What they do is take five mice and place them in a cage with a short supply of water. The naturally dominant mice go after the water until one dominant mouse is the only one in control of the water. The remaining mice who did not attempt to challenge the dominant are labeled as naturally submissive as they chose to defer to the dominant mouse in lieu of taking life preserving water. The dominant mice that lost out to the one victorious dominant mouse are placed back into general groupings of five to test how many can persevere and gain water supremacy.
The basic testing concept is simple enough. Basic animal instincts for survival and all that and it is not behavior that is surprising at all. However, while holding onto a misguided ideal that humans are somehow superior to the rest of the planets animals the scientific community feels that humans should not hold back their survival instinct to defer to a dominant but rather that we should all be dominant. Having all humans be dominant makes no sense to me because our societal structure certainly does not support that ideal.
The goal is to use the DSR behavioral model in developing medication to make the human “submissive gene” controllable. The medications developed are advertised and prescribed not as anti-submissive medication but as anti-depressants. Yet another reason to do more research into something when your regular doctor just wants to write you a script. Also, I will admit into being a tad angry in learning that my natural mental state is seen as a mental disorder and not only that but due to the way that I am the scientific community decrees that I’m just really depressed and need to be fixed in some way. My DaddyDom is the only cure that I need and I am the one who choses that, not some doctor who deems me socially inept for being submissive.
If you want to learn more about the “submissive gene” and the testing that is going on to cure submissive people, please visit the following links:
Effect of verapamil on submissive behavior in genetically bred hypercholinergic rats in a water competition test.
Submissive mice might help fight depression
Reduction of submissive behavior in rats
Dominant–submissive behavior as models of mania and depression
~surrender4love
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OMG so that is what is wrong with me LMAO.. really so being submissive is a disorder… whatever…. i think people just don’t want use to be natural they want us on medication for everything…. stupid
Thats how the make the big money little one
If you can convince someone they are sick you can sell them snake oil and they won’t care. Its a modern and medicated society where any emotion that is not blissful happiness needs to be eradicated.
~~BloodLustDaddy~~
I think that this study is mixing apples and oranges and I fully agree with BloodLustDaddy!
I propose that the blissful happiness of being “sexually” submissive and being submissive in conditioned societal roles are two different things.
In fact the term “submission” in the sexual context is a misnomer. I don’t think that society has come up yet with a term to effectively describe this sexual trigger simply because no body really understands it.
Even psychologists don’t understand it well and further studies remain to be done. The easy thing to do is to lump it together with conditioned submissive behavior necessary to make an organization or a social system work.
All of us, if faced with a life threatening situation, can actually stand up or strike back if it is required for survival. That instinct is as old as nature itself. Ever heard the term “cornered mouse” ? The one who can attack a much larger and stronger (read dominant) adversary for survival. Survival is a natural instinct not a conditioned one.
So, yes, submissiveness becomes a mental disorder if a living being does not wish to protect itself to survive and I think that such situations are usually not sexual in nature.
Did mental conditioning to make an individual act submissively in conformance with societal expectations, gradually find its way into being coded into the genes of coming human generations and got linked with sexual excitement?
I think comparing humans to mice is just plain stupid!
Almost has dump as thinking submission and depression are the same one is a choice the other is an illness
This is a good summary, I was wondering if I could use this piece of writing on my website, I will link it back to your website though. If this is a problem please let me know and I will take it down right away.
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Subspace (also sub space, headspace, flying, or floating), in the context of a BDSM scene, is the psychological state of the bottom. The term is unrelated to the mathematical term subspace.
Subspace is a metaphor for the state the bottom’s mind and body is in during a deeply involved play scene. Many types of BDSM play invoke strong physical responses. The psychological aspect of BDSM also causes many bottoms to mentally separate themselves from their environment as they process the experience. Deep subspace is often characterized as a state of deep recession and incoherence.[1] Deep subspace may also cause a danger in newer bottoms who are unfamiliar with the experience, and require the dominant to keep a careful watch to ensure the bottom isn’t placing him or her self in danger. Many bottoms require aftercare while returning from subspace.[2]
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1 Physiological processes
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Physiological processes
During the scene, the intense experiences of both pain and pleasure trigger a *sympathetic nervous system response*, which causes a release of epinephrine from the suprarenal glands, as well as a dump of endorphins and enkephalins. These natural chemicals, part of the fight or flight response produce the same effect as a morphine-like drug, increasing the pain tolerance of the submissive as the scene becomes more intense. Producing a sort of trance-like state due to the increase of hormones and chemicals, the submissive starts to feel out-of-body, detached from reality, and as the high comes down, and the parasympathetic nervous system kicks in, a deep exhaustion, as well as incoherence. Many submissives once reaching a height of subspace will lose all sensation of pain, as any stimulus causes the period to prolong.
It’s all science. Unfortunately, they have the science wrong. Far better to study this whole thing by chaining up a subbie and doing the thing, but sticking her head in a medical/nervous system imager.
(or his, submissives being male, too)
It’s a sexual orientation,and it is inborn…