This is one of the responses I got from a Reader.   Thank you to “BootBrush” for sharing his thoughts. Very insightful.

That was a difficult question to answer:

i do think that having experienced being a bottom *can* make you a better Top – although it’s not a definite: it depends on who you have sub’d for, what you experienced, and whether you got into the sub mindset. If you don’t enjoy subbing, then it’s just as likely that the experience will only confirm your idea that subs want to be hurt and humiliated – because that’s how the experience would have felt for you…

At the same time – if you’ve never subbed, then you may never understand what a sub feels when he lets go of everything in surrender to You – or how vulnerable that makes a sub feel.

i certainly feel safer playing with a Top who has tried out on Himself what He wants to do on me. But i don’t want Him to assume that because He enjoyed it, therefore i will too. No amount of experience can ever make up for taking things a little slowly and seeing how the scene unfolds…

i voted ‘no’ in the end. But only because it was phrased “I wouldn’t want to *see* my Top bottom“, not because i wouldn’t want to play for a Top who i know had bottomed in the past.