Quote Originally Posted by pervertedpages View Post
It seems like this turned into defining what a slave is and that gets so crazy.

I agree wholeheartedly...it can get crazy, or at least some of the people who wish to can make it seem crazy...though I have found the dificulty in defining what constitutes a real life slave and what constitutes some other kind of slave are not at all hard to define.

I think it's hard to make the point of, "it's different from online because when you're bound up at someone's feet you are at their mercy and then definitely their slave" because that's not, at least for me, the defining characteristic of consensual slavery (getting tied up and slapped around).

Its not being tied up or slapped around that matters...its that one has actually put oneself at the anothers total and complete mercy that matters.

It is that one has bested their own fear and come through one of the many crucibles that a real life slave must endure each and every time he or she finds oneself in that state of utter helplessness that really matters. Also it alone is not the single defining aspects that seperate theory from reality when it comes to real life bdsm and slaves, its just one of many many tests or rights of passage to say the least.


I think there's something to be said, though, for the idea that once you are with someone and their physicality is affecting your physicality and the course of your life events can change without you being able to walk away from the computer/media source... But I'd perhaps characterize the difference between real life and online as "laundry" rather than "he's got you gagged and is fucking you up the ass and you totally physically can't stop him"
Like I said earlier,,,the physical reality and the mental one must be combined to experience the full effect.