tsatske
Posts: 2037
Joined: 3/9/2007 From: Louisville, KY Status: offline
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I usually call my self a 'near no limits slave'. I recognize that I have some limits -- that there are points that, if a master crossed that line, the red light button would kick in, I would leave sub space, and not be able to obey. Like actually having sex with children, harming people, killing - I always identify as limits, that I would not hurt my own children, and that alcohol is off limits. A master who tries to break those limits does not understand the concepts in question, and is not a proper master for me. But, when I am owned, the mindset of trusting someone deeply slowly comes to that point. If someone ordered me to step into the street naked, I would think they were crazy. If my former master had ordered me to, I would not have given it a second thought, I would have obeyed. I would not have worked out the possibilities in my head -- is he going to stop me? has he somehow arranged for it to be safe so this is a fake out? I would simply have done it, and trusted that it was safe and proper. He did, in fact, at one point, order me not to go to the hospital when I thought I needed to. I didn't go. He was sure I would agree with him the next morning. To this day I think he was wrong. But I believed the words of our contract 'It is not that Master is any less likely to make mistakes than slave, it is that, as both are equally likely, we choose, in our relationship, to let those decisions rest with Master.' With the Master who owned me before him, there was an occasion where he ordered me to eat something that could have killed me (something I was highly allergic to). He was not testing me -- he had forgotten. I tried several times to remind me, and he wouldn't let me finish a sentence. He told me to shut up -- did I really think he would hurt me, it was just a bit of ice-cream for god's sake. he pulled it away in horror at the last minute when he suddenly remembered. The point it, when he told me to shut up and quit trying to object, and to simply obey, I leaned forward to do so. I was his property and it was his right and his responsibility. Do I think he was a good master? No, I don't, it would have been prudent to let me finish a single sentence to remind him that this ice-cream, which I had bought for him because I knew he would love it, could indeed kill me. But it was, and everything is, an ownership issue. And I obey. My last contract gave my master specifically the right to kill me. I know that he would not be likely to, it was, mostly, symbolic language. But it was symbolic language that I needed. Anyone I am going to entrust with the immense power of ownership needs to accept the responsibilities that go with it, including responsibility for my life. It set out specifically how I could beg for release -- which he was not required to grant -- and his promise to track me down and bring me back to him if I were to run, which I knew I never would. It was clear about his responsibilities to me should he chose to release me -- to kill me, or sell or transfer me at his whim, or else to deliver me safely back to my family, which he chose to do. A real world alternative, who would have thought. But, I certainly would have accepted the other choices, as unlikely as they were. An interesting thing is the number of Doms online who think that a slave should be 'no limits' from the moment they deign to speak to her. This is a close and trusting bond that takes a long time to build. Any Dom who has a problem with the few limits I honestly don't believe I could give up, is going to have a lot of problems with the very high number of limits I start out with, which include no penetration sex until I am owned and believe it to be a lifelong relationship. But, that's okay. If they don't like my limits, and don't want to spend the time it takes to slowly build the trust that chips away at those limits, they are not the right Master for me. It really is that simple.
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