thetammyjo
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ORIGINAL: Archer Exodus chapt. 21 V. 5 and 6 say "But if a slave declares, "I love my master, my wife and my children, I do not wish to go free". His master shall take him unto G-d, he shall take him to the door or to the doorpost , and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl: and he shall serve him forever." Deuteronomy chapt. 15 v. 16 and 17 repeat basically the same thing, " ... you will take the awl and put it in his ear into the door, and he will be your slave forever. Also with your female slave you shall do this." Historic Consensual Slavery Documented *giggle* This is the quotation Fox and I used when we pierced his ears for our 7th anniversary. I would ask though, as a historian, what defines consensual. If someone knows no other life or if someone knows that if they leave they are less likely to be able to have food on the table, clothes on their backs, or a roof over their head, are they giving consent to be a slave or simply choosing that which makes the most sense to them? In other words, if slavery is the least harmful option is it truly consensual or simply surviving? I have my own opinion on these questions. Better examples of people agreeing to be slaves might be those occasions where someone would sell themselves into slavery for the chance of earning citizenship -- this did happen in Rome but very, very, very rarely. Once bought there were few ways to enforce the agreement other than doing excellent work and proving you would be more valuable as a freedman. I think these are interesting philosophical and moral questions, but I still do not see the value in these questions as applied to BDSM or any of its subgroups.
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