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I said that I was not sure of the origin of the term 24/7, but you, like several others here, have decided to ignore what I write and attempt pathetically to belittle me. So for the record. here is the origin of that term. The term 24/7 TPE appears to have been created in a rival community to this one whose name I will withhold.

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The person credited with coining the term is a gentleman named Steven Davis, and was used in the mid 90's.

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Since I am using the ENTIRE TERM in its ENTIRE CONTEXT, your search for the origins of a PIECE of the ENTIRE TERM is completely off base.

I am not sure how I would be using a "part of the term" in my responses - I am using the term "24/7" - that is not really divisable (if you look - 7 really does not go into 24 well )

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 How can I emphasise it enough that the term MUST be taken COMPLETELY? But hell, lets play this silly, pointless game, if just to show how unreasonable you are being.

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Since you insist on seperating the term in order to take it out of context

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...lets seperate something of yours as well. You called me a purist. Now the letters you used were derived from the Phonecian language.

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They did not have the equivalent of the letters U and I, so we are safe to ignore these, reducing the word to prst. The Phonecian letter for P looks like the number 7 and means mouth. The letter R in Phonecian sort of looks like a backward P or the number 4 and means head. The letter S is a t with 3 cross bars and means fish. The letter T looks like a cross and means hook. So you are calling me a mouth head fish hook?
What does this have to do with this debate? Actually it has as much to do with this debate as does your insisting on seperating 24/7 from TPE, then claiming that the term 24/7 is misapplied.

I believe everything I read.

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 We are not looking over a military letter here, we are talking about the term created by a fellow on an alternative lifestyle board, and that term is 24/7 TPE. Not 24/7, not TPE, but the combined effect of 24/7 TPE. When you are unable to misleadingly seperate the two, the context and meaning of the term is apparent, and that meaning obviously does not mean " ready to be called into service from a distance ". It means exactly what it looks like, and claiming that it has any other meaning is just downright dishonest. If you are going to break it down, why didn't you go even further and point out that 2 does not mean 4, and 2 and 4 does not mean 7? After all, the numbers 2, 4, and 7 existed long before any military adopted the term 24/7. You are trying to avoid the actual debate by employing rhetorical sleight of hand to distract people from it. I know that I wax repetative, but I feel like a teacher trying to convey a simple concept to a group of particularly slow and uncooperative children. I am forced to repeat myself because the hostile audience continues to pick and choose parts of an entire term in order to pretend the term doen't mean what it so obviously does.

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Now lets talk insults.

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 I am willing to bet that some people consider my calling them fluff bunnies and weekend ass slappers to be insulting. In all honesty I would have to agree. But have you ever considered that people telling me that what I call 24/7 TPE doesn't exist is insulting?p

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After all, you are just saying that my slave and I don't exist. Do you not think it insulting to mock and ridicule this lifestyle by implying that we have to wear leather all of the time? Do you not find it both hypocritical and insulting to say how sick someone has to be to live it?

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 And last but not least, lets look at another aspect of it. Bear with me here, because we are about to scurry back into the field of hypothesis for a minute, just to convey the magnatude of this particular insult.
Take a guy that fishes off a dock every Friday evening to relax. Lets say that he decides one day to walk into a bar near the dock, a bar frequented by career fishermen. After a few drinks, the fellow begins to compare his tiny excursions at fishing to theirs, and proudly declares himself a fisherman " just like you guys! ". Several of the fishermen, guys that spend 8 months a year on a boar at sea, are going to piss themselves from laughter at this ridiculous comparison.

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Another scenario. A guy walks into a bar, and in this case it happens to be a gay & lesbian frequented bar. He talks with a couple of ladies at the bar, then announces that, since he has licked a carpet or two, he is a lesbian. The women calmly explain to him that he doesn't have the right plumbing to be a lesbian. But not to be outdone, he decides to insult them, telling them that there is no such thing as a woman that doesn't like the sausage, that none of them are really couples because the law does not allow it. The women are going to be outraged to say the least.
And one last scenario. Take a suburban Caucasian kid. He listens to rap, he wears baggy pants and a basketball jersey, he talks the Hollywood ghetto talk. Now, drop this kid down in the middle of an inner city slum. Have him approach a group of Crips or Bloods and tell them that he is Gangsta. You know what will happen? I'll tell you what will happen, you will soon have on your hands one very dead, badly mutilated cracker, thats what will happen. Some people of a particular lifestyle will laugh at poseurs and wannabes, and others will flat out kill them. My position is somewhere between the two. I will try to educate them, but failing that, will certainly ridicule them if they are too narrow minded to be corrected. After all, they are insulting me to begin with due to their posturing, false claims, and snide comments when I try and correct them. You people insult the hell out of me, my slave, and everyone else that actually is 24/7 TPE when you first claim to be it, then having failed to live up to the criteria of twenty four hour a day, seven days a week total power exchange, begin mocking and insulting us by telling us that we don't exist, that nobody ever does that, etc.

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Several people have posted on this thread professing that they live this lifestyle and actually fit the criteria. The rest of you are calling these people liars by insisting that it doesn't exist.

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 Sure, I have called people liars here too. But why? Because they ADMIT that they do not fit the bill of 24/7 TPE, but STILL insist that they ARE! So I am not insulting these people. I am calling them what they are, liars.

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Now, you mock Eso as well as me, but you have yet to offer ANY counter argument to his and my lifestyle.

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 You claim that his position is unsupportable, you give nothing except bluff and insult by way of discrediting it, yet still have the nerve to accuse ME of employing faulty logic!

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I have offered a source material which you scorn but fail to address. As of yet, you have failed to offer ANY source material by way of reference, making the score 1-0 in my favor on the credibility scale.

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Secondly, I have offered my own words as a self confessed participant in this lifestyle, making it now 2-0 in my favor. Oh, but wait, a couple of others have professed living it under the definition that the ENTIRITY OF THE TERM CONVEYS, placing the score at 4-0.

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 How is the taste of piss now, LOD? Surely the class 5 hurricane has forced enough of it down your gaping mouth for you to answer that.

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So, if you CAN find fault in the logic, put your cards on the table and do so. Otherwise you are starting to look like a sickly peacock shaking his feathers in a futile effort to attract the attention of a foul. And another big shock, LOD, I came to this lifestyle NOT as a student of Eso's! I read an essay of his because I was looking for an alternative take on the term. I was living this way before I had ever heard of either Eso or the term 24/7 TPE.