We here in the spanking kink are at least peripheral to the corner of the BDSM world where male doms get called “Daddy” and female subs definitely have daddy issues. I spent too many years avoiding any mention of all that here on Spanking Blog, because I thought it had something to do with age play. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that either, it just squicks me a little, which of course is a “me problem” not a “you problem”.) But of course, I was wrong about it having anything to do with that. In truth, the “daddy issues” phrase is more of a shorthand for one of the common reasons why a submissive may crave the firm hand of a strong and reliable dom. I recently saw a TikTok that explains it way better than I can. I believe this fellow has the right of it:
Since TikTok is currently under some sort of legislative assault in the USA, here’s an Internet Archive backup link.
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