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Communion includes love and falls on a continuum from warm-agreeable to cold-hostile-quarrelsome. Those with the greatest and least power typically do not assert dominance while those with more equal relationships make more control attempts. [1] Power and dominance are closely related concepts that greatly impact relationships.
Opposed to this interpretation, the "will to power" can be understood (or misunderstood) to mean a struggle against one's surroundings that culminates in personal growth, self-overcoming, and self-perfection, and assert that the power held over others as a result of this is coincidental. Thus Nietzsche wrote:
Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive to defend a right point of view or a relevant statement. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, it is a skill that can be learned and a mode of communication.
Dominance and submission (D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs, and rituals involving the submission of one person to another in an erotic episode or lifestyle. It is a subset of BDSM . This form of sexual contact and pleasure has been shown to please a minority of people.
Historically, tags and intonation have been thought of as the language of subordination in mixed-gender settings. Eckert, however, points out that in all-female communities, tags and intonation are used to assert dominance and power. [33]
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Hubbard's article titled Popular Perceptions of elitist Homosexuality in Classical Athens (1998) became very influential among critics of the phallocentric paradigm of Ancient Greek pederasty promoted by Michel Foucault and Kenneth Dover (in which men engaged in homosexual sex not just for pleasure, but to assert dominance over women and other males).