

#PRIMAL PREY ANIMAL BDSM PROFESSIONAL#
Here is another extract from my client’s feedback (this was pre-COVID when I could still bite without worrying about virus transmission, and my professional boundaries have since shifted anyway):Īfter gently welcoming me into the dungeon space, in my totally naked state, you helped me to shake out any tension in my body that I had brought in from the outside world. The primal state exists without the complicated narratives that the neo cortex wants to impose on reality. A human animal in their primal state does not think about what they should be doing or what is expected of them. In a primal state, a human animal can experience themselves as a sensory being, expressing the raw data of sensations without the filter of language.

It is liberating to drop into primal consciousness.

Liberation from worryĪnimals do not worry, because they live through their primal consciousness, following their instincts. Most of the time, humans tend to be in their neo cortex trying to solve day to day issues by thinking about them. The reptile brain deals with our wilderness survival instincts and primal drives. The reptile brain is the part that forms first and is the oldest part of our brain in terms of how we have evolved into the human animals that we are today. Humans have 3 brains: the reptile brain the mammalian brain (limbic system/emotional brain) and the neo-cortex, or cognitive brain. When we learn to cut through our paranoid wilderness programming, we are on our way to higher consciousness and happiness. Survival in our world today means that we must have instant perceptions of oneness, love, compassion with everyone and understanding of everything around us. Thus survival in the wilderness meant that we had to be programmed for instant paranoia, instant fear and instant anger. This constant distortion destroys our energy, our insight, and our ability to love. In social interactions, we magnify molehills and make them into mountains. A fast release of adrenalin into the blood stream, rapid heartbeat, and automatic anger and fear. But our brains are still programmed for wilderness fight or flight. Perceptiveness, wisdom, and oneness are the ingredients of happy living. Survival and happiness now depend on tuning in to our relations with the people around us and the total environment of the here and now. As civilization grew, survival no longer depended on the instant fight or flight of the wilderness. 10,000 years ago, our ancestors built the first cities. We are the pioneers in the evolution of human consciousness. In this article I explore what primal play is to me and why I like it so much.

Primal play still has an important role in my work. However when I was a dominatrix, my favourite way of establishing a power dynamic with a new submissive client was making them my primal prey. My professional BDSM practice focuses on transformational rituals now. Primal is my favourite kink to play with. The above extract is feedback from one of my former clients. And if the submissive gave way to “primal” urges, I worried, he might reach out for physical or sexual contact with the domme that would likewise cross her red lines. Surely, I said to myself, animals satisfy their appetites without self-restraint, without concern for the boundaries of other animals, without seeking “consent.” OK, I thought, one could role-play pet owner and puppy, or even predator and prey, but the domme wouldn’t be able to enter into predatory behaviour fully, without risk to the submissive’s boundaries. I had read on your website that it is something you recommend and enjoy, but the word “primal” I associated with “animalistic” and so I wondered how could this be appropriate in a bdsm encounter. I was quite doubtful about experimenting with “primal” play before our first session.
