Black Submission

[Solaxiom]

I love the art of BDSM. The ritual. The power play. The language of dominance and surrender when it’s done with care and intensity.
But as a Black writer and reader, I find myself frustrated by how quickly the genre turns predictable. Start exploring BDSM with Black characters and 9 times out of 10, you hit the same dead ends: race play, skin fetish, or some flattening of identity that turns melanin into a kink instead of a backdrop.
What I want to see more of? Everyday people of color stepping into these spaces without being targeted or tokenized. Characters who get to be submissive, not because of their skin—but because they choose to give up control.
I’m also fascinated by the idea of submission without destruction. So much of the “breaking” trope leans into violence, humiliation, or even slavery-adjacent dynamics. But what about power that doesn’t rely on force? What about someone submitting because they can’t help it—because they’re seen, understood, and undone from the inside out?
How do you write or explore submission that isn’t violent, but still overwhelming?
What does it look like to dominate someone without ever raising your voice or lifting your hand?
How can Black kink stories center choice, not control?
I’d love to hear from other writers or readers who are exploring these ideas. If you have stories, headcanons, or personal insights, please share.
Let’s talk about submission that seduces—without stripping identity. This is my first try.
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-unraveling-of-lena-james

 

[HyenaJ0e]

I agree that some interracial stories can be way too much, but to be fair that clearly is a kink for some people. I think that what you're describing is soft domination, you could try out r/gentedungeon to get some ideas. For a lot of more romantic stories you can also just change a character's race and I don't think it would matter that much

 

[KinkStevens]

I love the art of BDSM. The ritual. The power play. The language of dominance and surrender when it’s done with care and intensity.
But as a Black writer and reader, I find myself frustrated by how quickly the genre turns predictable. Start exploring BDSM with Black characters and 9 times out of 10, you hit the same dead ends: race play, skin fetish, or some flattening of identity that turns melanin into a kink instead of a backdrop.
What I want to see more of? Everyday people of color stepping into these spaces without being targeted or tokenized. Characters who get to be submissive, not because of their skin—but because they choose to give up control.
I’m also fascinated by the idea of submission without destruction. So much of the “breaking” trope leans into violence, humiliation, or even slavery-adjacent dynamics. But what about power that doesn’t rely on force? What about someone submitting because they can’t help it—because they’re seen, understood, and undone from the inside out?
How do you write or explore submission that isn’t violent, but still overwhelming?
What does it look like to dominate someone without ever raising your voice or lifting your hand?
How can Black kink stories center choice, not control?
I’d love to hear from other writers or readers who are exploring these ideas. If you have stories, headcanons, or personal insights, please share.
Let’s talk about submission that seduces—without stripping identity. This is my first try.
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-unraveling-of-lena-james

People like it. Thats just society. There are plenty of BDSM stories that don’t specify race. When one reads one, they can envision the characters to be whatever skin tone they prefer. I think your point plays against itself, but maybe I’m reading it wrong. It seems you want race as a nonfactor, but want black faces to be somehow spotlighted(?) I don’t get it.

Many stories are written in a way that allows the reader to imagine the characters to have any physical qualities they want, UNLESS the qualities are critical to the story, eg very thin, big breast, tall, black, small cock, short, asian, transgendered, etc.

I advise to continue to write the stories you want to read/write. Imagine every story, that doesn’t lock the reader into a particular race by way of overt description, is exclusively black or any other race you prefer. The moment a story calls out race, its often key to the story. It becomes part of the interest or sometimes part of the kink. Its no different for any other race in that regard.

If a writer creates a story where they are calling out every character as Samoan (as a back drop) does that do anything for the reader who doesn’t sensationalize the idea of Samoan characters? Probably not. As a matter of fact, its possible that they may find it exclusionary, if they dont identify as Samoan, tokenize, or have a specific interest in Samoan people. It all seems a bit silly to me. Just write the story and forget about race unless it impacts the story. Just my two scents. No offense intended.

Your other questions are valid: “
How do you write or explore submission that isn’t violent, but still overwhelming?
What does it look like to dominate someone without ever raising your voice or lifting your hand?”

These are good questions and are in general and have nothing to do with race IMO. There are lots of stories that answer those questions; they are of a much more psychologically manipulative nature perhaps. Many are very good too

 

[Dearelliot]

In real life, I've had several black dommes allowing me to spend time with them, usually at $300 an hour. She usually whips me and pees in my face and spits on me, makes me masturbate and lick it up...without either of us mentioning race. But I don't recall any stories I've read lately with Black on white, but I'd like to see a few.

 

[PaxNurgle]

One of my pet peeves: the "Big Black Cock" fetish. Okay, I don't want to kink shame here, so I will try not to judge- because I know there are people that are into this. (I'm obviously not one of them.) I guess it just bothers me be because it does seem so, well, racist and stereotyping. I'd rather just be into big cocks- period- with no fetishization of race.