About Master Strokes - BDSM. Fetish. Bondage

Let's start with my title.

  

There are a number who give themselves the most fanciful of names that frankly, often, leave them hoisted by their own petard.

I am a most grounded and  level-headed man. Most Doms/Masters or professional dominants, choose a name that embodies them. How did I select mine? There is double-entendre behind 'Strokes' - it may mean with a whip - it may be with the gentleness of my hand's caress.  I am far more interested in your psychology and  what makes you tick than I am in satisfying my own ego.

What makes me the Master that I am?

  

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The answer is twofold. Firstly, the command and control: from captaining the Rugby Team as a youngster through a public school education to joining the British Army as an Officer and  more recently, in civilian life, as a Site Manager building up to 300 homes with 120+ overgrown Neanderthals in hard hats and steel toe boots working under me. All of this being the absolute clichéd Testosterone Club - I have always been the Alpha Male - I instinctively have lead and  taken control ... I am a proud Scotsman - an educated barbarian. Rule 1 in my book is that one can never treat all the same way; everyone is individual and  unique and  as such needs to have the way in which they are treated tailored to their own motivational influences - some are core to the individual whilst others are circumstantial to that moment in time. Stick does most certainly have its place but care no less so!

Secondly, my regard for women: Perhaps, as a direct result of my working life, I have an enormous appreciation of women and  anything that I regard as epitomising femininity - from long hair to nails, make-up to stilettos ... and  that's just on a physical level. I will also ALWAYS find a way in to your soul. Women are generally far more sensual than men - your emotions run deeper - oft' with skills highly attuned to disguising them as a defence mechanism - one of my main proven skills/curses through the years has been to see through them. Female diplomacy is invariably superior to that of most men, self included, yet my directness usually has shock value. I see women as anything but inferior ... Simply the yin to my yang. Ultimately - they have been my greatest fascination - the general difference in their behaviour from that of the male psyche being far more appealing. No less of a curiosity has been watching the struggle that they have contended with over the years. This is one of the main reasons that I believe BDSM has remained a taboo.

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For the last 100 years Society has been telling women that they need to stand tall as equals: beginning

with the likes of Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes through to taking-on what was formerly viewed as men's roles through the 'Great Wars', only to have them removed when the men returned home, to having role-models ranging from Mother Theresa to Madonna, Margaret Thatcher to the English Monarch. Yet how many have complained that they have a partner who does not 'behave like a man' or that they have not felt 'protected and /or cared for'!? There is as much a power struggle WITHIN for many women as there is an open struggle for equality. For as long as you have been able to remember Society has dictated that you need to continue that battle. Is it not indeed the stronger women that can face the world and say, "This is not necessarily my need or at least not in all regards!"?

Indeed most of the women that I have dominated and whom have become my BDSM submissive / slave over the years have been bright, articulate, well educated and, in many cases highly successful in their careers; ranging from legal professionals to high-powered business women to one of my most recent, I have named her 'rouge', who heads-up one of the UK's most prestigious schools of medical learning.

I come from a world of regimentation, hard and fast rules of order, structure and discipline. Can you imagine a platoon of soldiers in battle deciding that they would all 'do their own thing'? I have not only 'served' my nation but also a Mistress to learn a number of protocols within the Scene many years ago. I am a great believer in the ancient Chinese proverb, "I hear - I forget; I see - I remember; I do - I understand". Order, reverence, humility and etiquette - all are immensely valued by Me - all will be practiced by you!