Myths about Slaves.

[Archeon]

News flash people... In Monopoly no one actually becomes the shoe or gets rich.

Quoted for truth.

The problem, in my opinion actually stretches further than the definition and myths revolving round a slave, but to a problem with any BDSM roles being well defined these days.

With the internet came a whole new world, it opened up BDSM to the masses, especially in recent years, and with that you loose structure and clarity. All the roles get merged and greyed out, where slave submissive dominant and master all roll into one. While opening up BDSM to the wider world is a good thing, many people now fear the nature of the definition, because everyone feels they can be what they want to be, and to hell with everyone else.

While it is true I can call myself french, it simply doesn't make it true, no matter how hard I protest. I feel the same applies to dominants/Masters and subs/slaves, however as people have already said there is no single definition of what a slave is, so how do you know if you are one?

Well in my opinion, and the way I look at it, being a slave is about having a certain mindset. A mindset that you wish to give yourself over to someone permanently, to devote your life to their happiness to that of their Master. At that point live in, online, working etc all fade into the same thing, and there does not need to be that distinction. Evidently by my definition of "permanent" this does not count for role play, and I feel that role play could never yield a slave mindset due to the fact, as denuseri so elegantly put above, playing monopoly doesn't turn you into the shoe.

Regards,

Arch