That gets away from the confusion that often comes with conflating bottoming with penetration or submission. The best and simplest definition I’ve always liked for a bottom is the one who receives sensation. Refinery29 recently published an article entitled – ‘ What Does It Really Mean To Be A Bottom?” I don’t think it really answers the question it poses itself in the title, but it does raise some interesting points. Author paltego Posted on MaTags Bondage, Fm, Photograph, Strap-on 4 Comments on Getting Medieval Santa’s Lap This is obviously from Kink’s Men In Pain.
It’s just not one a medieval judge might recognize. Which isn’t to say the present day hasn’t got a use for the pillory.
I guess the modern equivalent would be getting ratio’d on twitter. This punishment was intended to humiliate and expose the wrongdoer – physically they received little harm, perhaps some sore muscles and a bit of smoke inhalation
If you want to find kinks that link back to medieval times then it’s not elaborate torture devices you should be looking for, but good old fashioned humiliation.įor example, several bakers who committed fraud were sentenced to spend a few hours bound up in the pillory, where they had their fake bread burnt under them. It was just a lot more straightforward than modern stories would have you believe. That’s not to say that people of the period didn’t use torture. They were either invented a long time before (like the rack) or made up later (like the pear of anguish). According to this article, almost everything you think of as medieval torture wasn’t actually medieval. but it’s also very possible (my experience even) to think of a m/f couple who are both bi and might just have like that as their general sex life, or might both be gnc, or both more likely to perform those penetrative roles in their broader sex life.For fans of dungeons and traditional medieval tortures I have some bad news. If a man is bi and with a woman who is str8, is it pegging then? Does it matter whether the man in question usually tops or bottoms and whether that’s different for the gender of person he is with? It feels to me that there could be a m/f couple where both partners are bi but who approach sex in a way that could still allow for ‘pegging’ to conceptually exist. Like, what denotes ‘pegging’ is in a certain sense amorphous just like gender and sexuality.
This is just generally in continuity w femdom in general - you don’t see a lot of m/f bdsm that features a dominant woman in a ribbed A shirt and no makeup and cargo pants (to 14 year old me’s dismay), the penetrative aspect is itself a form of eroticized gender transgression. Like, the pegging woman is frequently hyperfeminine - the gender transgression of the act itself is such that anything different would be too threatening (also, beauty norms, lol). The anxiety around this form of gender play is also why so much of the packaging and erotic representation of pegging happens along v heteronormative lines (let alone just a general ‘no homo’ moment around lesbians and other queer people who use strap ons). It’s not a surprise that most chasers of trans women who want them to top him are also into pegging - its about that perceived gender discordance or reversal. And that feels like because pegging while being about penetration is in many instances about the gender role reversal that is symbolized by penetration (this is also why crossdressing on the male partner’s part is frequently associated). Like, it feels to me like obvious that men using a prosthetic aren’t ‘pegging’, and describing it as so is in a certain sense misgendering. Not to talk about pegging too much, and i Know that I have already talked about this before, but I find it so interesting in terms of its definition and discussion, because its like ostensibly about a very discrete act but is in fact about a whole set of social meanings that have to align in such a way as to actually be defined as ‘pegging’ (as opposed to just like… ‘sex’ involving a prosthetic).
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