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Mercnbeth -> RE: slave contract (12/14/2009 9:36:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: aldompdx
I have recently revised my position on the matter, after finding an authoritative definition upon which a contract may be qualified:
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’.
Thus, a lawful but not necessarily enforceable contract may qualify the term "slave" to mean the above recited definiton and no more. Prenuptial contracts and marriage contracts have been affected by consumation, or even less than the above recited definition.
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, as some call it. 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 terms are equally charged in the same subject matter.
I believe that every self professed "BDSM slave" should learn the extremely abusive and abhorrent nature of real sexual slavery by watching "The Day My God Died," a PBS documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/daymygoddied/
since the English language is full of words with more than one specific meaning, regardless of origin, this slave has found it useful to use the appropriate dictionary definition so as not to insult anyone:
*a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something
Source: OED, 2009...no mention of "by force".
*A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
Source: Webster, 1913...no mention of "against one's will".
*One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
Source: Webster, 1913...no mention of "without consent".
*a person who is owned by someone
someone who works as hard as a slave [syn: striver, hard worker]
someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0...no mention of "by force"
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