Every week there will be a BDSM question posed to readers here at BDSM is Love. Feel free to answer it as candidly as you’d like. If you’d like to participate in the discussion please leave a comment on this post, send me an email or post the response on your own blog!
This week’s question comes from Submissive Journal Prompts on Sensual Service:
If the govenment brought back real and legal slavery, would you sign yourself over to your Owner as his/her slave?
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I don’t know. Part of me says yes of course, but then the other thinks…well…if it was legalised and everyone knew about it…would it be as much fun???
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I don’t think so. While I love that I’ve given myself over, body and soul, to Master, things could become ugly if I was *legally* his. For example, what if he took a turn for the nasty due to something beyond his control, such as a brain tumor or Alzheimer’s?
I like being my own person too much, even if I am at Master’s beck and call.
No. I am on the other side of the coin here as a Dom, but no. Big. Giant. No. There isn’t even a mild fantasy appeal in this. The very notion sickens me. Most of all, beyond the human rights aspect, it would remove the exchange part of the arrangement, if the sub was now a slave and legally obligated to be so. But then… I cannot remove the human rights side of it. Not even long enough to entertain the fantasy. I would be the one posing as Dom owning slaves but actually running the new underground railroad.
Here in Iowa, there was a custom of hanging quilts out to dry, that were actually maps of the safe houses for runaway slaves. I can’t tell you how fast I would be hosting the quilting bees to bring these back again. My voluntary subs doing all of the quilting of course
I wrote about this in my blog, at the end of my “Belonging” post. Thanks for the question. It brought up some interesting thoughts!
I’d have to say no, the beauty I see in consensual slavery would be negated in legal slavery. I like having rights, even when they are taken away from me by Master. The point is that at any time I can still say NO. With legal slavery I’d be screwed and I think Master would agree with my assessment.
kitten agrees with luna’s statement, all too often when she is talking with a sub or slave they say that they have no rights, they are nothing etc etc and kitten really doesn’t agree with this, everyone regardless of their status has the right to say no and those who say ” i have no rights ” is not understanding properly what it means to be a sub or slave, a Master will decide if He is going to play or use His property, He will decide when He wants to talk to you or play with you, that is His right, but to equate these things with having no rights is a falsehood, a sub or slave does not make demands on His life, that is not her place in life but they really need to move from thinking making demands is the same as having rights ( sorry kitten knows what she means )
if slavery was legal then the slave would certainly loose every right she has and that is not the aim of a D/s or M/s relationship
no.
playing fun together with the one I know is one thing.
him changing some day to someone else whose slave i should be is totally different.
bondage is fun, but freedom has claimed many lives before it became available, so be careful what you resign.
what would be the difference between marriage and legal slavery?
and what would be the thrill in doing something that is no longer a forbidden fruit?
I certainly hope that this question is rhetorical. There is a huge difference between marriage and legal slavery.