Nina, have you found a good correlation between histrionic personalities and being submissive? Some of the most sexual and flrtatious women are histrionic but not always submissive.
Originally Posted by whitechocolate
Not really. But being hystrionic adds to the act of drama and acting and that explains the flirtatious nature. The sexual is also an act of getting attention so is being overly flirtatious. But it does not necessarily contribute to being submissive. Although it depends on how you would define submissiveness. If the "attention seeking behaviour" is defined as being submissive then i`d say so. If being spanked in bed is being defined as submissive it does not have to be.
quoted from wikipedia on susceptible people for hypnosis:
"Research by Deirdre Barrett has found that there are two distinct types of highly susceptible subjects which she terms fantasizers and dissociaters. Fantasizers score high on absorption scales, find it easy to block out real-world stimuli without hypnosis, spend much time daydreaming, report imaginary companions as a child and grew up with parents who encouraged imaginary play. Dissociaters often have a history of childhood abuse or other trauma, learned to escape into numbness, and to forget unpleasant events."