Ozme, I didn't mean the TERM pet was new. But the using it in this frame as a separate classification on the same level as slave, sub, etc. seems to me to be either fairly recent, or a very minor subthread of kink.

It is theoretically possible someone has misunderstood me. I did not "learn" my lifestyle from second life. Second Life is an amusing online playacting diversion. I have been in a real life relationship for 8 years now, though those years are very difficult to summarize as when we became "zomg really real power exchange people." It was a hard road to get to where we are now,and I'm not yet sure if we're totally exactly where we're going yet, if that makes sense. I don't consider that I was truly collared in a sense of an actual real commitment to not straddle the fence between a vanilla play world and a real kink world, until last December, despite the several years before that.

I am merely expressing that I believe a terminology on SL has started to filter outwards. This is only a theory and may not be actually true. But a google search reveals precious little in the way of "pet" being used in the sense that I've used it. NOT as merely a term of endearment within a kink relationship, and NOT in a kink relationship that is focusing on "animalizing" the relationship...like for example having the pet drink from a dish on the floor or something.

I'm not judging either action as wrong. It just isn't what I'm referring to.

Denuseri,

please do not just assume I'm some newb who decided to try out this nifty kink thing last week. I NEVER said people in a TPE master/slave relationship could not have love, I was merely speaking of personal connotations of the word "pet" vs. "slave" to me.

I know I'm new to this forum, but I'm not "new" to master/slave power exchange relationships. And I didn't feel it was necessary to spell out my entire kink history in order not to be directed to "study up" on shit I have read and studied for years now to come to the place that I am at now.

LMAO flaming, good point!