OrionTheWolf -> RE: What are the pitfalls of 24/7 sexual slavery? (12/4/2009 4:49:26 AM)
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Now this is much better, giving factual information and then offering opinion on it. If we wanted to open a new topic on it, I could fill pages on the history of slavery and how it was viewed in different cultures; Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, Early Northern Europe, Central Asia, etc. Some of these cultures treated them with no rights and do as you please, while others gave them certain legal rights and protections, even charting a course on how to gain their freedom. Some slaves, because of being owned by good Masters, did not even take those paths to freedom, some of the enjoying important positions including advisors. The more brutal slavery practiced up until the time of the US Civil war is what springs to many people's mind, if they are unaware of BDSM and other history. Things are viewed differently, in different context, and posting in a BDSM forum in needs to be seen in that context. quote:
ORIGINAL: aldompdx I stand partially corrected. OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY DRAFT ADDITIONS JUNE 2006 slave, n.1 (and adj.) - A person who plays the submissive role in sadomasochistic sexual activity. Cf. MASTER n.1 2d, MISTRESS n. 2g. 1901 Suburban Souls I. iv. 81 My best beloved master, Do come tomorrow... Try to stay as late as possible if you wish to please your slave and make her very happy. 1907 J. P. KIRKWOOD Sadopaideia I. 52 The fascination of domination held me, and though..I had both Muriel and Juliette as my mistresses, that was more for their pleasure than my own. For myself I was their master, they were my slaves. 1921 F. SAVAGE tr. L. von Sacher-Masoch Venus in Furs 73 ‘You have awakened my dearest dream... To be the slave of a woman, a beautiful woman, whom I love, whom I worship.’ ‘And who on that account maltreats you.’ 1980 E. WHITE in L. Michaels & C. B. Ricks State of Lang. 244 The way to ask someone to be your slave..is ‘are you into a bottom scene?’ 1995 Independent 22 Mar. 23/3 It is hard to imagine him as a stereotypical leather-clad, whip-wielding ‘master’ disciplining his ‘slave’. It also remains vitally important to never forget the origin of the word "SLAVE" clearly connotes non-consent (also from OED): med.L. sclavus, sclava, identical with the racial name Sclavus (see SLAV), the Slavonic population in parts of central Europe having been reduced to a servile condition by conquest; the transferred sense is clearly evidenced in documents of the 9th century. We all live on planet "nilla" Earth. To argue that a "sex slave" merely pertains to a lifestyle choice, is like arguing that a "nigger" merely pertains to poor pronounciation of classical Latin (niger), Middle French (negre), Dutch/German/Swedish/Danish (neger), Spanish/Portuguese/Italian (negro) -- for black. (source, OED). The latter is surely the perspective of many caucasians in the U.S. deep south. Ironically, both words are equally charged in the same subject matter.
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