I'll freely admit that my interest in the scene thus far is purely literary -- but I think the main thing that's been irking me is the whole dominant/submissive portrayal. Anita's constantly fluffing herself up and saying she's the dominant one, and everyone has to submit to her, and as far as I can tell, she's one of the suckiest tops ever. The biggest thing that strikes me about this is how she goes out of her way to soothe away all the woobies with her menz with her brand of soothation (ie, lying on her back and flailing with orgasms) rather than finding out what they like and inflicting it on them. Specially with Nathaniel -- I mean, he's quite happy to be submissive to her, but then she fusses over him and says, "omg, please don't do the cooking and cleaning so much!" and tries to make him more "independent" when really, this is what makes him happy. It makes him happy to serve his master/mistress and to see them happy by what he does (which is probably why I do like the Nathaniel/Asher ship, because dammit, at least Asher knows what the hell he's doing and will let Nate do his thing. Plus, will deliver spankings and nipple-clamps when desired.)
Also, she never really services any of his needs unless she's kinda cornered into the situation -- she was reluctant to "mark" him in NiC and bite him all over, she didn't really know what to do when he was trussed up for the flogging in the club in ID. Considering that she's essentially his mistress, I woulda thought that she'd at least find out what he's into and try to cater to that. I would say she could retrain him to her style of things, but thus far that's failed so horribly because...well, she's so damned vanilla about it all.
She's happy to walk into a room and huff out that she's the greatest and that all others should acknowledge her as such, but she's got nothing to back it up.
So this kinda makes me believe she's more into masochism. LKH has confessed to being a control freak, this is the perfect outlet for that sort of thing. Just hand over control to someone else and not be responsible for things for a little while. Anita/Merry like the pain and the humiliation, and it's all somehow not her "fault", because she totally has to do the sex!
In which case, you'd think Merry/Anita'd be attracted to more dominant men and/or women just for the sexual outlet and have this person be their main squeeze/Master (*cough* Richard/Doyle much? IF ONLY).
. . . wow, I just came back to writing this comment after getting a snack and totally forgot what else I was going to say. Um. Um. WAFFLES!
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Also, she never really services any of his needs unless she's kinda cornered into the situation -- she was reluctant to "mark" him in NiC and bite him all over, she didn't really know what to do when he was trussed up for the flogging in the club in ID. Considering that she's essentially his mistress, I woulda thought that she'd at least find out what he's into and try to cater to that. I would say she could retrain him to her style of things, but thus far that's failed so horribly because...well, she's so damned vanilla about it all.
She's happy to walk into a room and huff out that she's the greatest and that all others should acknowledge her as such, but she's got nothing to back it up.
So this kinda makes me believe she's more into masochism. LKH has confessed to being a control freak, this is the perfect outlet for that sort of thing. Just hand over control to someone else and not be responsible for things for a little while. Anita/Merry like the pain and the humiliation, and it's all somehow not her "fault", because she totally has to do the sex!
In which case, you'd think Merry/Anita'd be attracted to more dominant men and/or women just for the sexual outlet and have this person be their main squeeze/Master (*cough* Richard/Doyle much? IF ONLY).
. . . wow, I just came back to writing this comment after getting a snack and totally forgot what else I was going to say. Um. Um. WAFFLES!