Dominant and Submissive

The fandom at the moment appears to be going through a craze at the moment for stories surrounding a dom/sub relationship. The stories all range in story lines. Some include Jasper, Edward and Bella, whereas others surround around Edward/Bella's dom/sub relationship. All of us love a good lemon and these appear to be the best ones out there at the moment.

For those naive and sheltered people like me, who had NO idea at all what a dom/sub relationship was when they first came across it, here are a couple of definitions.

• Wikipedia says... Dominance and submission (also known as D&s, Ds or D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs and rituals involving the giving by one individual to another individual of dominance over them in an erotic episode or as a lifestyle arrangement. Physical contact is not a necessity, and it can even be conducted anonymously over the telephone, email or other messaging system. In other cases, it can be intensely physical, sometimes traversing into sadomasochism. In D/s, both parties take pleasure or erotic enjoyment from either dominating or being dominated. Those who take the superior position are called Dominants, Doms (male) or Dommes (female), while those who take the subordinate position are called submissives or subs (male or female). A switch is an individual who plays in either role. Two switches together may negotiate and exchange roles several times in a session. "Dominatrix" is a term usually reserved for a female professional dominant who dominates others for pay.

That definition I found was helpful but a little complex. The actual page goes on to explain the details of the relationship in such infinite detail that by reading it, you know all of the ins and outs of the partnership. So due to the complex nature of that definition, I then used urban dictionary for a much more simple one and stumbled across this...

• Acronym for "submissive seme, dominant uke". In yaoi, a sexual situation with dominance/submission in which the seme (person penetrating) obeys and the uke (being penetrated) decides what happens.

This sums it up much more simply for those of us who are already on the good old summer hols (or vacation for you Americans).

So, next, in my extensive research, I searched on fanfiction, within the Twilight fandom the word 'dominant', which caused me to generate 109 results. As I scrolled down the page, something that was blindingly obvious was that all of the stories had been written within the last 10 months, majority of them were one shots that had been written recently. To me that just proved how much this craze had kicked off.

Now, I cannot go on and on about these amazing stories if I do not recommend any of them to you.

The obvious ones to recommend to you are 'The Submissive' and 'The Dominant' which are sister stories written by tara sue me http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1595284/tara_sue_me. These are perhaps the ultimate dom/sub stories. They follow both of the point of views of Edward and Bella as they explore their relationship through this odd means. I personally enjoyed these stories a lot as they are written very well and believably. BUT read 'The Submissive' first! This is the story that in my opinion has opened up the cascade of stories that have appeared recently.

The other rather blindingly easy ones to recommend are 'The Training School' series by TheSpoiltOne. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1702022/TheSpoiltOne She tells the story of a dom/sub training school from Bella, Edward, James and Carlisle's POV's. The premise of the story is Bella being sent to the school by James, her boyfriend, as he wants her to improve in bed but in true fanfiction style, she meets Edward. It is an interesting take on the whole relationship but it works very well as a concept.

There are other ones out there but those have still yet to be read my me, thus making it impossible for me to tell you about them. However, I encourage, no implore you to search the word 'dominant' or 'submissive'. See what you can find. You may just be surprised!