puella
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I am going to chime in on this and get a bit more personal than I am normally comfortable with. I think you need to be very careful about dehumanizing a person. A slave is a person, remember that. Always remember that. And dealing with them as a thing, without regard or care for the repercussions of your actions and behaviors upon them, even though the yearn to please you, is nothing short of sociopathic. I never called myself a slave until I was owned in a TPE. Previous to that, I had limits, I had things I thought would be damaging to me, the person. I surrendered my control of those boundaries when I entered into a very profound relationship. I surrendered myself and control of the things which I knew kept me healthy. I served his pleasure and took great joy in that aspect of the relationship. But there is a very seductive call to forget that this person who will gladly and eagerly do anything for you is still a human being and not some sort of 'other sort'. There is a very great lure to forget the person.. to forget to value the person who serves you and see and value only the service itself. There is a very good reason why I had set certain boundaries. I know myself better than any other person, and intrinsically, I knew that the sum total of who I am as a person could be irrevocably damaged by crossing those boundaries, for a host of reasons, and a host of histories. No Master will ever know the whole of the person who submits to them, it is impossible. It seems foolish to me now, having been damaged by one whom I still love completely and profoundly, that you would look unfavorably upon the things a person who submits to you tells you is dangerous to them.. and then, perhaps even worse, to turn that upon them and question the legitimacy of their nature because of their self knowledge. It would seem to me that that information about the person you choose to enslave would be highly valuable to you. It would also seem to me, that unless you have no care about the actual person who serves you, and that unless you are just looking for completely pleasing and fulfilling service without the petty annoyances of the human soul, boundaries and danger zones would be considered legitimate and important.
< Message edited by puella -- 3/5/2007 5:49:49 AM >
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