This may seem fairly obvious but this thread started from my being not entirely clear on what constitutes femdom versus not. I'll use this as a basis for discussion and sortof expand on it from there as to how this genre of thing might be tagged more legibly.
In some contexts I've heard femdom used to define the general idea of "what lady says goes," however I've also understood it's applied to specific individual females who happen to be 'toppy' or are atleast carrying out behavior that would immediately make them appear as such. Please bear with me. Below I'll talk for a bit about criteria and then ask for some example things to be categorized as or not-as femdom generally.
The basics: The typical imagery conjured just seems to be a female (or sometimes even herm) who's often clothed (if only in a more-revealing-than-naked-bodysuit) and with a partner of any gender (though often a male) and who often has legs and/or forelimbs bound.
Reasoning: So... I'm personally the type who finds a strong non-male nice to see, but full-blown bondage outfits and leather and all that can be overblown and fairly offputting most of the time.
I'd imagine that others would also find it helpful to be able to discriminate between certain genders in specific roles or positions. Cunniligus v. blowjob is fairly easy to know who's doing what (assume we don't put herms into the mix...) but for actions such as rimming or size_difference it really gets harder to manage.
Questions
Appropriateness and generality:
- Can I be as liberal with this tag as "it looks like this girl's in charge" or is there a more specific list of criteria like she/shi has to be bigger/stronger-looking as well?
A lot of this would just be based off position and facial expression tbh. I'd be inclined to use femdom here as a term as opposed to female_top or such because that might be confused for a physical position.
Further questions:
- Is a male partner mandatory or can it be F-F(-F(-F...))?
- How about H-F, F-H, or H-M ? (M-F is obviously out as only F-M would constitute femdom.)
- Would pegging (which is [F-M stapon anal_penetration] explicitly) automatically imply femdom? If not always when wouldn't it, hypothetically?
Approaches: If anyone thinks there's a better way of capturing this via tags I'm all ears, however I went about discussing femdom because I think it would be the easiest as opposed to doing something more contrived as a combination like [power_imbalance male_sub straight] in one tab [power_imbalance lesbian] in another and then like... [power_imbalance male_sub herm] in one more.
More on approaches: If a clear wiki-def was given we could do male_service / female_service or something along those lines... It doesn't have to be perfect as we'd need something very complicated to handle big orgy scenes or whatever, but I think that most explicit pics are usually just two partners going at it somehow, or atleast one very focal character. I'd bet power-stuff is pretty important to a decent number of users when they're trying to find yiff that's suiting their tastes, so what occurs to you folks?
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TD;DR: What would be an easy tag to create or leverage that would return say herms getting head from males but not vice-versa? -- the issue being they'd both have a dick. In the same way, some folks might find it interesting to see a guy rimming a chick but not vice-versa.
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