JeffBC
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Joined: 2/12/2012 From: Canada Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: kissmyfeet123 it's just a habit, i always use it when i talk to subs and slaves i've met OK, I'm actually going to try to be helpful here. Have you actually met any subs or slaves? I mean in the real world... where you can smell people. The reason I ask is that while I know pretty much nothing about "the community" I know enough to know that is socially rude. In the real world you address someone by the name they have given you. If you are in a smaller gathering that has some particular protocol (as a leather gathering might), then you might find some minor adjustments to that. In all cases, the wise thing to do when addressing an owned sub/slave is to address them the way their owner wants them addressed. In no case it is wise to simply address them however you want. How that all plays out for you here is that you are best to address people by their screen name unless they give you some other name to use. About the only exception I personally have to that is I don't use honorifics simply because someone put them in their name. So if was addressing UberDarkLordMark I'd call him Mark. If I was addressing LadyPact (who I actually respect), I address her as LadyPact. Does any of that help?
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