Dec. 16, 2021, 6:05 p.m.

10 signs someone is probably a daddy dom

Sub Missives

Content note: daddy dom / little girl language

I love daddy doms. I have for years. But it’s not just a sexual thing.

When I say the phrase “daddy dom,” what I really mean is a kinky person who is dominant or dominant-leaning, and whose dominance manifests in a way that’s explicitly about caring for their submissive-leaning partner(s). Granted, even some of the more discipline-oriented dominants out there are doing what they do out of deep care and love, but I think what sets daddy doms apart from the others is that the caretaking is part of the “fiction” of the kink, part of its narrative for both/all participants, rather than being implicit subtext – and the caretaking is part of what both/all participants find hot.

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