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ManOwner -> RE: Puppy Girl Training? (5/11/2005 6:18:55 PM)
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I've thought about this a lot, because dog training is my number one favorite BDSM activity. I don't like to view it as role play where the slave pretends to be a dog. I prefer to keep Master/slave activities fully integrated with reality. Dog play to me is a power exercise, not a role playing exercise. The fact that I am the Master and he is my slave means that I can make him do whatever I want. I can treat him like a dog if I want to, and doing so is a way for me to express my power.
What do I like about exercising my power in this manner? First of all it is an expression of ownership, just like putting a collar on a slave. As it happens, I file the act of collaring under dog training. I don't want to get sidetracked talking about what collaring means to me, but I always put a collar on the slaves I play with. It doesn't necessarily represent any long-term commitment in my view. Simply put, at that point in time I am treating the slave as if I own him. I see putting a collar on a slave as an expression of the fact that I own him just like a dog. Putting him on a leash and commanding him to sit, heel, fetch, beg, etc. like a dog is merely an extension of that.
Moreover, I think of dog training as a type of humiliation play. Many people consider it very embarrassing to be treated like a dog. It would ordinarily be degrading to be walked on a leash and made to eat on the floor, and things like that. It is not because the treatment of real dogs is degrading. It is instead because humans have the mental and physical capacity to do things differently. Dogs are superior to humans in certain ways, such as speed and sense of smell. Humans, however, are generally more intelligent, and most of us can use a toilet and eat at a table. To treat a slave as if he lacks that intelligence and dexterity and is actually down on a dog's level in those areas is to humiliate him.
In summation, I want to stress that dog training to me is not about turning my slave into a dog. It is only about treating him like a dog. He never ceases to be human in my eyes, and I would not want him to. If I thought of him as a real dog, then the game would not be fun because such treatment is not humiliating to a real dog. I know that other people see things differently. This is just how I think about it.
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