I was trying to think about that a bit when doing some of the worldbuilding-talking! (I also tend think about switches in d/s aus a bunch).
At the time not sure I came up with much, but now thinking - so the social organization here doesn't seem to have much space for switches, which makes me think this might be one of the d/s aus that didn't have the concept of switches for a while, didn't recognize this as a thing, etc (the real life bdsm community totally having had and still having some issues with that...)
Possibly this is one of the verses where switches would tend to be classed as subs (basically with a 'if you want sub things at all you're a sub' idea), which might actually contribute more to the skewed dom:sub ratio.
And this leading to various sucky things for various people who were in fact actually switches. Also likely some of them parsing their feelings as desires to be an 'alpha sub' and direct other subs for their dom (both upstairs and downstairs might have things like that, from household organization stuff to workgangs for downstairs subs), or to be an upstairs sub ordering around downstairs subs, and putting it into that.
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Date: 2018-12-10 08:59 am (UTC)At the time not sure I came up with much, but now thinking - so the social organization here doesn't seem to have much space for switches, which makes me think this might be one of the d/s aus that didn't have the concept of switches for a while, didn't recognize this as a thing, etc (the real life bdsm community totally having had and still having some issues with that...)
Possibly this is one of the verses where switches would tend to be classed as subs (basically with a 'if you want sub things at all you're a sub' idea), which might actually contribute more to the skewed dom:sub ratio.
And this leading to various sucky things for various people who were in fact actually switches. Also likely some of them parsing their feelings as desires to be an 'alpha sub' and direct other subs for their dom (both upstairs and downstairs might have things like that, from household organization stuff to workgangs for downstairs subs), or to be an upstairs sub ordering around downstairs subs, and putting it into that.