CitizenCane -> RE: What is training? (9/12/2005 1:49:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: NYBorn could someone expand on what takes place when training a sub or how they've trained their sub/slave, training for "what/services/talents?", how it is/was done, for how long, how often, how did you begin, was this discussed with your sub/slave, etc. thanks for your help and advice. I think it's useful to distinguish between 'education', 'training', and 'conditioning'. There are certainly areas of overlap among these things, but they are not synonymous. While 'education' can encompass all three aspects, the focus generally is on providing information and developing skills through the critical/analytical functions of the mind. Training focuses on developing skills, habits, perceptions and attitudes through direct action, and conditioning is primarily about creating associations between particular stimuli- such as commands, objects, persons- and responses, such as emotional reactions, patterned behavior, etc. All of these things interact and support each other in altering behaviors and perceptions. It seems to me that emphasis in 'slave training' is developing reliable, predictable patterns of response to stimuli- such as instant obedience to commands. What Mr. Warren appears actually to be opposed to is having to do the work to train a person out of habits instilled by someone else, but since everyone, slave or not, comes into a new relationship chock full of habits they have developed under other circumstances, I feel this just comes with the territory. Assuming, of course, that as a dominant one desires to define these habits rather than just live with whatever the submissive brings with them. Cane
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