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MasterBRD -> RE: What do the terms slave and submissive mean to you? (6/5/2007 2:40:03 PM)
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The following article was originally written by Raven Shadowborne © 2001
I think it says a great deal... Out of courtesy I won't copy/paste the entire thing here. Anyone who wishes to read the entire thing may do so by looking at my journal entry from 3/19/2007 7:22:06 AM
Many ask if slaves truly exist. In the way a dictionary
and history define slavery, no they do not exist in most modern countries.
(Though there is some contention that slavery rings do still exist in
secret) Most people in civilized countries generally agree that the
legal ownership of another human being is immoral and thus make it illegal.
However, in the world of BDSM, one will find that some of the people
involved call themselves by many different terms; one of these is the
term "slave". Of course, this often raises the question of how is a
slave different from a submissive. This question often is met with outright
hostility, disbelief in the existence of slaves and the thought that
the words slave and submissive (as nouns) are interchangeable terms
within the context of BDSM. Many will not agree with any of those thoughts,
and I am one of them. I have spent a great deal of time talking with
slaves in the honest attempt to better understand them, their lifestyle
choices, and judge for myself whether or not this is a healthy variation
to the BDSM lifestyle.
To the question of whether or not slaves exist inside
of BDSM I say that yes they do. They may not be the largest group, but
there are quite a few. Do slaves differ from submissives? Again, my
answer is yes they do. Slaves tend to differ from submissives by the
way they think, act, submit and their expectations.
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