Yes!
You do have to live your life! Just a good thing to tell your Dom what that window looks like and what you want to see.

Miss talking with you too useless. Glad to see you back! Your profile is like seeing a mirage.... in a great way!

@ puka, yes badge of honor - I like how that sounds. I wear them with the utmost pride!

Thanks all for the re - "marks"...
I know, making my self laugh makes me excited.

marks are not necessary however...as time passes your pain tolerance level increases. Thus the need to feel more pain increases as well. Therefore marks are going to be left...feel proud of them...I am!! As long as they don't bother you don't let anyone tell you otherwise..you have to live your life....someone once told me..RIGHT!!!! Miss talking to you!

I have been with gals of both ilks. Some love the marks, some are horrified by them. Some are married gals that don't want a mark they can't explain left on them.

But I think most gals like marks as a reminder of the time they served. Reminders of how deeply they felt the rush of serving and the pain they endured to prove themselves worthy.

I kinda like to see them sometimes, myself. When I see a gal with obvious service marks, it turns me on. Probably because I've inflicted marks like that and remember the doing. Also because I know that woman will stand naked and be whipped for her man, and that's one bold slut. Yum! *grin*

So the gals feel proud of their marks just like us old guys are proud of our battle scars. We look at them and remember what we did and think it's good to be alive.

As we live let us LIVE!

-=Storm=-

My perception of a bruise comes from how it was obtained. A bruise that comes from falling down is just ugly. However a bruise that is the result of positive experience can be exceptionally beautiful, even if they are objectively identical. While bruises are the body's physiological way of dealing with trauma, psychologically they are also a memory.

As long as your bruises are happy memories, I say get as many as you can.

What is desirable and acceptable to one is not to another. This is very much one of those issues. Some for professional reasons can not deal with marks(think clothing & underwear models). Some do not like the mental aspects of making or receiving marks on the body. Since you are not a member of that group, Enjoy your marks.

hi PIP, i agree that the marks are reminders of our service to one whom owns us. I like them and enjoy them for as long as they last. Then I ask for new ones!!!

I love my marks. I love poking at the bruises and reminders until the go away. I love that sitting or leaning back can be difficult for a few days. I love to show them off. I love to see where his fingers has pinched my tit until bruises blossomed and I can see where each finger was.

To me, marks are a reminder. They are almost like a badge of honor, as well. "See what I went through???". I'm not certain about other's feelings on it, nor do I care. Their dynamic is theirs, just as yours is yours. They don't have to wear my body.

If you want bruises, woman, get bruised! There is enough kink in the world to go around.

As been said "to each their own" but now for my two cents.
Sometimes leaving a mark will add excitement for the next time, as it fades and the slave/sub sees the changes it reminds her of how she was marked, of the pleasure and the pain, builds her up with desire for more.

To me personally I dont like bruising, Seekwish had some bruises inflicted and I was livid, and she learnt that she doesnt like it either, like you said Pip everyone is different and has different views, so no one is right or wrong, its up to the people involved.