Knowing your place

"It is hard to be a man," I said, "until one stands in a relation to a woman. And, I suppose, it is hard to be a woman until one stands in a relation to a man."

"What relation," she asked, "Master?"

"That of the natural order of nature," I said.

"Yes, Master," she said.

I looked at her. "I cannot know well the nature of your feelings," I said, "but I know, and well, that women are deep as well as beautiful."

"We are so different from you," she said. "I fear you will never understand us."

"It is doubtless easier to put you on your knees and push the whip to your teeth than it is to understand you," I said.

"The man who truly understands us," she laughed, "is the first to put us on our knees and make us kiss the whip."

~ Explores of Gor - Page 188

What woman could respect a man who is not strong enough to put her under the whip? ~ Guardsman of Gor - Page 102

I don't believe the whip in the context of these quotes mean a literal whip. I very much agree that men and women have roles in the relationship, however which place each belongs in depends on the people in question. For me, I know that I need a strong dominant Man who will remain in control, guiding and molding me into a better person. I embrace the fact that I need to be obedient, mastered, and in service to Another. I need to know that He is strong enough to master me, I ache to know he burns to control me, I desire him to want to discipline me... otherwise how can He be the ‘Man’ in my life? If I am able to push him around, walk all over him, and back him off – how can I respect him? How can he respect me?

So for those that doesn’t understand me? They will never be able to ‘keep me in my place’ within a relationship and I will not be happy... because the Man that ‘gets me’, will ensure that I remain on my knees in service to him (again not literally kneeling all of the time) where I am the happiest.