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TheCabal -> RE: Submissives and Slaves, Are there any real differences by reality or just definition? (8/20/2014 7:07:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Redhusky
If we define slave by using the dictionary :"a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property; who is forced to work for another against his will"
However in D/s , M/s relationship and in BDSM it's different.
As much as we say in out profiles we are slave , we will never be slaves defined by the dictionary if we have freedom.
In collarspace or in FetLife all slave have freedom, so they are submissive and not slaves by the dictionary. But if we arent slaves , then why does BDSM use the word slave if we arent ? Why does FetLife or Collarspace allows selecting this role if we arent ?
We dont use the same definition of slave that the dictionary use. So it depends from person to person.
You are correct that there is no way, in the United States, to legally own another person. But it's not really that simple is it? Because I don't legally own another person, does not mean that other person doesn't consider themselves owned. There's a difference between the legal aspects of a situation and the practical aspects to it.
Sort of similar to the way people look at slave contracts. No slave contract is legally binding in the United States, but that doesn't mean that there's no agreement between the people who've signed it, or that the people who've entered into the contract don't intend to fulfill their obligations under it, whether or not those obligations are legally enforceable.
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