A power exchange occurs in sexual relationships, but does the roles of the submissive and the dominant always reflect the realities of this exchange: i.e. is the submissive always giving in, and the dominant always taking over?
It seems not quite so, some resources argue that dominant individuals in a sexual relationship are compensating in their sex lives for the weaknesses that inform the rest of their lives, and submissive are dominant personalities performing a similar compensating ablution of their psyches, while this may hold true, it gives a new understanding of individuals who are at war when their dominant traits in sexual relationships are translated into a submissive role.
Many people tend to think of dominant/submissive relationships in sex as role playing, which isn't the case always, especially if we take into consideration the various degrees of this relationship, that can be observed from married couples with a "vanilla" taste to more hardcore fans.
What do you think?
I would say there is probably no real correlation between submissive/dominant personalities and their preference to being submissive or dominant during sex.
i believe that since our sexuality is one side of our personality that they are related, maybe not always, or not within the same degree, but they are...