Part V: Vixen: The Ascent To Violence

Having now placed both Vixen and her subject in terms of their respective developments, it is now time to turn our attention to the true focus of our study, which is Vixen in action. With this section we begin our analysis of the most fascinating subject within the entire spectrum of Sexuality. This is Domination, an extraordinary realm of unconscious impulses and desires, of forbidden thoughts brought to life, of the most extreme reversals in conventional attitudes, actions, relationships and roles. It is the realm of fear, of rank and protocol, of altered states of reality, of the most fervent and existentially real forms of Religion and Worship, of dungeons and chains, and of a sizzling, stocking-adorned leg flashed furtively and to grand effect on a crowded subway. It is the realm of ultimate command and obedience, mistress and slave, oppressor and oppressed. In the end, it is the realm of violence. Vixen’s capacity for the inflicting of physical and emotional pain and suffering is unsurpassed. It is this aspect of her power that we will investigate in today’s post.

So how is it that a lovely young girl turns to violence? What has gotten into her that makes her crave the intoxicating empowerment of beating a man into utter submission? How is it that she happened onto that laugh, so reminiscent of an Evil Sorceress? And why does it comes forth in such lovely, lilting waves when the lowly man has been rendered tearful and helpless at the mere sight of her powerhouse legs? She has adopted, in many ways, the attitude of a cold-blooded killer, and she revels in the role. Assuming, of course, that we are now dealing with the woman that has undergone the transformations described in our previous posts, we begin, then, from the standpoint of a woman who is already quite accustomed to having her way. She controls men with consummate ease and even what we would describe as artistry. But the shift to availing herself of abject violence in the execution of her will is yet another phase that must be investigated.

Vixen’s propensity toward violence happens quite naturally in the course of her development, and there is no set stage during which she adds it to her repertoire of domination. Some are already experimenting in the Awakening stages, for others it begins during Discovery. It all depends on the personality. But regardless of age, it usually happens that she simply gets carried away in the heat of the sexual moment and follows an instinct that comes upon her, the impulse to strike. With that first slap, punch, or kick, and in fully grasping the import of her subject’s terrified reaction to it, she senses her power surging to even greater heights, and experiences herself as implacable tyrant, now possessing carte blanche to do with her puny, pathetic pig-boy anything she pleases. She no longer simply dominates him. After learning that she can beat him at will, she owns him. That first blow is routinely followed by all manner of corporeal experimentation in which Vixen discovers her preferred methods of breaking his body and demonstrating in no uncertain terms her unconditional authority. This continuous growth in Vixen’s power and authority has a dramatic effect on her own journey of sexual transcendence. The more power she exerts over her subject, and conversely, the more powerless he proves to be in her presence, the closer she comes to arrival at the desired state of sexual ecstasy in which she will experience her own ascent into translation.

Meanwhile, her subject is experiencing the reciprocal movement toward Kenosis (self-emptying). As he is progressively stripped of his power, his bodily control, and eventually his very will itself, he too is moving very near the state of transcendence or translation. So, what is this close connection between sensuality and violence? How can we explain the apparently incongruous fact that more suffering, and more infliction of suffering, produce in the principals the state of sexual ecstasy? Unfortunately, we learn very little from nature with regard to our question. While there is indeed significant violence in the sexual behavior of animals, as far as we can tell, none of it is premeditated for the purpose of achieving enlightenment. (Then again, who knows, Hmmm?) But with us, the natural element of sexual violence is not reserved for the act of consummation itself, but rather, it is introduced as an element of Ritual. It is a religious form of violence, the purpose of which is that of achieving a higher state of consciousness. As mentioned above, it is the infliction of violence that works toward Vixen’s translation, and the reception of violence that works toward the same in the case of the subject.

You will notice that I have used the term ‘translation’ in describing the alterations in consciousness through which Vixen and subject ascend to elevated states of being. Translation is contrasted to Transcendence by virtue of its describing the state of motion as such between planes, or from one to another. And so, as the sexual experience becomes progressively more heated and ecstatic, the moment comes when Vixen and/or the subject become ‘translated’ to the superior plane. Transcendence is reserved for indicating the actual state of being within the planes of higher consciousness. It is accurate, then, to speak of being translated into states of transcendence.

So, what exactly is happening during the infliction of violence? How is it so closely tied to sexual ecstasy? For the most part, we are conditioned to think of sexuality in terms of love, in terms of relationship, in terms of monogamy, marriage, etc., in short, as an expression of care and/or exclusivity between two people. A one-night stand may lack the deeper emotions associated with the relationship as such, but it is generally thought of as an expression of affection nonetheless. True Domination, inclusive of the potential for X-Treme violence, operates outside the limits of such a dynamic. Through the violence of Domination, Vixen is seeking her own orgasmic luxury through the manifold psychic highs that are the concrete effects of her mastery. There are endless variations to the qualities present in these highs, but they will tend to fall under the umbrella of the following basic forms. These forms include, Intoxication with her own strength, sexual arousal at witnessing the disorientation of her subject, the sense of ‘play’ that characterizes the encounter, the experience of translation, and finally orgasm itself. Orgasm may or may not signal the achievement of Transcendence for Vixen. Often, she will have already achieved it from the ecstatic flow of the encounter and from the fullness of spirit she receives from the depth of subjugation inflicted upon her subject. In such cases, orgasm usually follows closely after. It will be instructive, then, to look at these psychic highs individually.

1. Intoxication with her own strength. With self-intoxication, we enter into the marvelous realm of Vixen’s confidence and arrogance, the two qualities that, after consideration of the outright allure of her beauty, are the most indicative of her power and best account for the particular level of dominance she has achieved. In playing with her subject as predator to prey, each vicious slap, each powerful punch, each devastating knee bash or leg lift, each act of smothering or face-sitting, each element of the brutal damage she will accomplish, makes her hungry for more as she becomes intoxicated with her own power to reduce a man to a useless, pathetic, and irrelevant lump of flesh. This self-intoxication makes her more dangerous as the encounter progresses because of the escalating level of arousal she is experiencing as she punishes him. This syndrome is not unlike that of the Great White Shark in the act of feeding. It is not only a show of devastating power, it is also a natural result of the violence itself. The more bloodletting that occurs, the more frenzied the shark will become. In the same way, the thrill of stalking, catching, and overpowering brings Vixen to a state of inner frenzy in which her excitement is manifest in even more accelerated violence. The knowledge that she can control another with such ease and impunity feeds upon itself causing her to access even higher levels of strength and power with each hard blow she administers upon her battered subject.

2. Sexual arousal vis-à-vis the disorientation of her subject. This follows closely, and is indeed connected to #1. Here we see a most disturbing and cruel side of Vixen, the actual arousal at the heavily compromised state of her subject, which typically will include X-Treme mental disorientation and even severe physical injuries by this point in the encounter. Let us be clear that this is a separate source of arousal from that of her self-intoxication. Self-intoxication, again, is the arousal that comes from within herself, a kind of high-level pride-in-self that comes from knowledge of her capabilities. It is inner-directed toward her own ego. This second state of arousal comes at the actual enjoyment of seeing her subject in a helpless condition, from a dark form of erotic satisfaction at seeing him in agony. Watching him grovel, beg, cry, writhe in pain, and make every effort to fight through the damage she has inflicted upon him in order to please her is a powerful source of erotic stimulation for her. We will speak more on the direct psychology associated with this particular psychic effect in a coming post, but we should note at this point that this fiendish sensual charge she gets from seeing her subject fallen into a devastating state of delusion and psychosis at her hands, is difficult to trace back to any particular psychological source. It is found as often in Power-Dommes who have never had issues with men as it is with those who use their dominance as a way of getting even with men for some earlier injustice in their lives. It appears that there are simply a certain number of women out there who love to batter men. They will tell you almost routinely that it was something that just ‘felt great’ right from the start with no qualifications needed nor expected. This state is outer-directed at the subject. It should be noted here that this near-obsession on her part with her subject’s helplessness and trauma often leads to more severe violence on her part. As she watches him struggle, she is usually prompted to ‘ratchet up’ the punishment and it is at this point in the encounter that she most often beats and humiliates the subject with such force that he will achieve translation. Her awareness that he has ‘left himself’ (kenosis) is often the trigger for her own translation as well. Obviously, each encounter is different and there are certainly no hard, fast rules as far as order and timing are concerned, but this description is certainly an accurate guideline for charting the different levels of violence that Vixen will enact due to the compromised condition of her subject.

3. The sense of ‘Play.’ The third psychic high experienced by Vixen through her mastery, though of course also related to the first two, involves a very different aspect of her interior make-up that is connected to her sense of innate creativity. It is a feeling that is invoked due to the role-playing character of the encounter and can also be compared to the feeling we might imagine to be present in a cat playing its game of death with a mouse. Contrasted to the the arousal at her own strength of point #1, and the arousal at the compromised state of her victim in #2, we are describing here the arousal that she feels in anticipation of ‘what happens next?’ It is the open-ended character of the event that stimulates her here. This state is both outer and inner-directed as it depends on the subject’s reactions to her abuse, and in turn, to her reactions to his reactions. I generally prefer to call this the ‘cat & mouse’ syndrome, but the correct psychological designation is that of ‘Play.’ Play involves freedom to act in random ways, unstructured, and without any necessary qualifying objective. It can refer to meaningless activity, enjoyable activity, experimental activity, sensory activity, almost any kind of activity that is performed strictly for its own sake. With this sensation of openness to the moment infusing her spirit, Vixen’s sense of creativity comes to the fore as she decides what the next development in the encounter is to be. She is the boss here, and nothing happens unless she wills it or approves it. Well, if you guessed that this concept inspires even more violence on her part, you’d be right. Abandoning herself to this quality during the encounter, she will most often experiment with the most unusual forms of violence and humiliation she can think of. This period can go very badly for the subject as the realization that no one can stop her from doing literally anything she wants to him takes hold of her.

4. Translation, Orgasm, and Transcendence. With regard to these final phases of encounter, we will have more to say when we discuss the Religious elements of FemDom. Their relationships to violence are generally indirect, which is to say that while violence certainly plays a significant role in getting Vixen to these levels, once translation is achieved, we have effectively left its province behind and must begin to avail ourselves of other concepts that are more suitable for the analysis of these psychical and physical states. At this point it suffices to note that Translation, Orgasm, and Transcendence do not necessarily follow any particular order and may occur independently or in such rapid succession as to be experienced as one progressive state, with a nearly infinite combination of variations possible between the two extremes.

Regardless, then, of the forms Vixen’s violence takes on, the simple answer to our topical question is that she employs violence because it gives her pleasure to do so. It is also clear that she is a most greedy task-mistress when it comes to violence, which, as we noticed in our study, tends to beget itself over and over within her as she continues to employ it. We must try to come to grips with this aspect of human nature, because that will-to-violence is part of us. It is within us, and it is alive. Vixen’s manner of manifesting it on the physical plane just happens to be the most delightful and fascinating form of it known to us at present. Does it surprise you that I use the adjective ‘delightful’ in describing the brutal violence at which Vixen is so consummately adept? If so, you must remember the maxim, so apropos of the subject of Female Domination, that Pain is a Pleasure. This is, after all, a study of Obsession by one who is Obsessed. So, yes, I’ll stick to my guns and shout from the rooftops that Vixen’s use of violence is delightful, delightful indeed! Long may she reign.