Actually, it was both impressive and a touch scary. Being the the adult survivor of emotional child abuse (thanks, Dad!), I don't always handle emotional intensity in others with the rational detachment I should. In addition, I've worked ultra-hard for years to suppress any hint of emotional intensity in myself with near fatal results.
This is probably why I've only been able to go a little-ways into the BDSM world. That is a volitile world that is fueled by emotional intensity of many types. I'm too afraid of power (mine or others') to do anything more than dabble at domination (role playing). I'm too terrified of being at someone's "mercy" and receiving discomfort or actual (gasp) pain, to try subbing. Almost all mildly intense play classifies as "edge play" for me. I've only recently come to acknowledge the awful truth about myself.
I am, in fact, an extremely passionate individual who has learned to turn that passion completely off out of self-defense (like a Vulcan). I'm now in the process of learning how to cope with the idea of intensity. Once that's done, I hope to learn how to *use* emotional intensity. I suspect it can be skillfully wielded like a gentleman's rapier and not like a Neanderthal's club. Now I just need to figure out how to do that.
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This is probably why I've only been able to go a little-ways into the BDSM world. That is a volitile world that is fueled by emotional intensity of many types. I'm too afraid of power (mine or others') to do anything more than dabble at domination (role playing). I'm too terrified of being at someone's "mercy" and receiving discomfort or actual (gasp) pain, to try subbing. Almost all mildly intense play classifies as "edge play" for me. I've only recently come to acknowledge the awful truth about myself.
I am, in fact, an extremely passionate individual who has learned to turn that passion completely off out of self-defense (like a Vulcan). I'm now in the process of learning how to cope with the idea of intensity. Once that's done, I hope to learn how to *use* emotional intensity. I suspect it can be skillfully wielded like a gentleman's rapier and not like a Neanderthal's club. Now I just need to figure out how to do that.