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Leonidas -> RE: What is a Collar? (7/20/2004 9:08:57 AM)
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This is one of those questions that, unless what you are really looking for is a smorgassboard of answers from which you can pick one that you like, is pretty much a waste of bandwidth becaue the answers will be so diverse. I'll assume that you are looking for diverse answers and throw my two pence in.
In my little corner of the world, a collar means that the wearer is a slave. Nothing more, nothing less. Slavery in the sub-culture to which I belong is as close to a pure meritocracy as you'll ever find. Slaves are prized property, and are valued according to the qualities and skills that they posess. While you'll hear some folks around here talking about how submission is inherantly a precious gift, I have never found it to be so. The submission of someone with little to recommend them is worth little.
So, the beautiful, enticing, charming, vivacious, sweet smelling, sensual dancing slut is a slave, but so is a woman in the kitchen scrubbing pots that is as homely as dirt and as mean as a snake and is kept by her master for reasons only fathomable to him. Both slaves, but of very different percieved value. There was another thread on this board where we discussed a slave that was "for sale". It is not unusual for a slave in the culture that I speak of to change hands. It is not considered shameful or even unusual that a slave might pass through several hands before she arrives at the feet of a master that appreciates some quality in her, or just as likely, brings out a quality in her that her previous masters did not.
So, from where I sit, the collar is simply a social convention that proclaims the status of the wearer. As with just about any wrapper, it's what's inside that matters. The usual caveat applies. What I have said here applies to a specific sub-culture. I didn't mean it, and it should not be taken, as representative of "mainstream" BDSM.
Take care of yourselves.
Leonidas
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