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Submission and dominance among friends

28th Mar 2017

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This is a linkpost for http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/submission-and-dominance-among-friends

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I like what you wrote here, but I feel like you and OP are talking about different things. For you, such experience is a traning for situation when someone tries to knock down your status for real, so that you are ready to defend yourself. For OP, it is an experience that feels nice.

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play feels nice doesn't seem separate from play is probably useful.

2gjm9y

It is possible that play-submission among equals "feels nice" (to those to whom it does) because for our ancestors such play was useful training for situations of genuinely hostile status-attack. (Though I wouldn't bet on it; the above is the sort of evo-psych speculation that is easy to make and hard to verify or refute.)