Clearly, it can be. But it shouldn't be considered synonymous. Like, wanting to worship a girl's body (I mean sexually ofc not like kneeling and praying to her) to me means I want to show her how much I love her body, how much she turns me on, praise her, kiss her entire body, lick her, etc.
NOT have her boss me around or talk down to me (the opposite, I'd want her to be as loving as I am)
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Why does it matter what other people assume? You know what you like. Find partners that also like that.
Maybe it’s toxic masculinity?
Its probably because in order to worship somebody else’s body, you need to be okay to ignore your own body for the time being.
The part about being bossed around is just misguided domming. The average person associates sub behavior with degradation. Not all subs want to be degraded.
Well the word “worship” by default is to glorify or idolize, putting the person being workshop above the person worshipping them.
But porn tends to take things out of context and fetishizes them, this leads to the definition that people may associate them with.
My wife likes to be dominated. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to be worshiped and being told she’s beautiful. I worship every inch of her. She also just likes to be told she’s bad and be punished for it.
Lets use the most common way of using worship like, religion.
In religion to worship is to submit yourself to the higher being so the word worship is tylically seen as a voluntary submissive term.
There are of course nonsubmissive types of worship but this is mote closely called a revereance.
Worship in sexual terms is closely related to BDSM where many types of dynamics fall on a spectrum of how submissive or dominant people want to be.
Social media also isnt the best way to properly convey different kinds of dynamics as only the most extreme versions have shock value to garner clicks.
This is how my husband and I have sex, and there’s no power dynamics or BDSM because neither of us are into it. It’s just enthusiastic, romantic and passionate sex.
Maybe just tell folks you’re a romantic so they understand instead of thinking of it as submissive?
I wonder if all us girls reading smutty books are going to change the connotation of this eventually. Because as a self proclaimed expert in smutty books “worship” is seen really like hot and masculine in a lot of them. I think it doesn’t have that same connotation with like young guys for instance.
I kind of think that unreservedly loving your partner’s body is an essential part of great sex.
Um, it’s not.
I love it when my man does this to me and it’s not submissive at all. He’s using my body (and his) to give both of us pleasure.
I’m a submissive but I get turned on by the idea of my body being worshiped by my partner. It’s a soft dom thing imo
Stop calling it “worship”. It’s enjoying someone’s body. I enjoy my partners body and I enjoy an ice cream cone. I don’t worship either of them though I do appreciate them.
I feel like this could be under the “pleasure dom” umbrella
Any kind of love or worship IS a form of submission, but not all submission has to be classified under the D/s dynamic
Just say what you want to say instead of trying to classify everything into a dom/sub role.
I wonder if you’d get more insight from posting in r/bdsmcommunity …
Personally, I don’t find myself to be a match with someone who likes performing this type of adoration – and I’ve tried! I do like hearing about leaving a lasting impression or talking to my flavor of the week about the highlight reel playing in my mind after a good session.
Everyone has different limits, boundaries, and definitions of fun and intimacy. Exploring is definitely one of the best parts of being on this planet :).
This is how I feel too actually- however I’m a switch so I’m comfy either way, but I do prefer my body worship to be more top oriented. Which is unusual since I’m a woman and date men, so it’s kind of hard to find someone that’s okay with that lol. But I’ve been lucky enough before
Does EVERYTHING have to fall under a dom/sub dynamic anymore? I swear it’s becoming the new so-called ‘vanilla’, because it’s friggin everywhere! 🥴
I think we way over emphasize dom and sub dynamics in otherwise nonbdsm relationships, and we need to stop. I think it’s especially harmful when women are almost always put in a submissive role, merely because they are more likely to be in a receptive role, when these things are not at all the same. But yes, we need to stop calling things dom or sub when they are outside the context of an established dom sub dynamic, it just causes more problems and turns what should be an act of mutual love and pleasure, into a mind game of who gets to be in charge.