We aim to develop practical techniques which use detailed examination of a
female slave's thoughts, emotions and past experiences to establish and
maintain a
solid and inescapable state of ownership. In doing this, we wish to cut
through the vague concept of
"Slave Training"
popular in BDSM fiction and websites.
To send us comments about the site or pointers to writings or news elsewhere
which is relevant to these topics, please email
Tanos AT tanos.org.uk
| 30 Oct 08 Changes |
| I've never been one to post blow by blow commentaries of my relationships as
they happen, and that's especially true when things are coming to a
conclusion. But I think it's time to spell out how things are now.
The short version is that I uncollared both lili and popi, and they have
now both moved out. The rest of this post is the slightly longer version. [more...]
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| 16 Jan 08 The Desire for Purpose |
| Recently
I've got interested in general motivations: what is the most general
framework for why people do things? Are people following specific drives imposed by evolution, or is there some universal, such as
Nietzsche's claim that everyone's
motivation is The Will to Power. But how can that be true in a world with
consensual submissives? [more...]
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| 17 Apr 07 "The Control Book" by Peter Masters |
| Peter Masters had an outline of this book on
his website since the early
2000s and if you're really curious some of these versions are still
there
on the Internet Archive site. However, he's now produced a printed
edition, published by Jack Rinella in March 2007, and this review is based on
that expanded version. [more...]
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| 11 Apr 07 Slave Training |
| I've been thinking about training this week, partly to write the Slave Training article for the Ownership Wiki.
Like the word "slave" itself it has a wide range of uses, from the profound (as another term for enslavement) to the ridiculous (for paid SM sessions with a dominatrix.) I've avoided using the term in the past because of its vagueness, but I'd now like to put these two words to work with a plausible definition. [more...]
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| 6 Apr 07 Review of "Master Nage's Guide to Training Consensual Slaves" |
| I've been away this week and took the opportunity to read Nage's book. It's
one of a sudden flurry of M/s books which have appeared in the last couple
of years. I think it's clear that it's the weakest of the current crop
but I'm going to try to highlight the good points as well as the rest. [more...]
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| 25 Mar 07 Obedience dynamics |
| In this post, I'd like to tie together the various concepts and terms
that surround obedience in Master/slave and Ownership relationships.
Words like resistance, reactance, discipline, rules, submission, and
obedience refer to different parts of the puzzle, but don't have
well-defined boundaries, and I'd like to suggest a consistent set of
definitions and some new ideas to help visualise the various processes
of obedience. [more...]
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| 2 Mar 07 The Women Who Take Their Mate as a Master |
| In 1992 "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel" was published by
Wilson and Daly as part of "The Adapted Mind", a collection of papers
which established Evolutionary Psychology as a new way of looking at the
mind in terms of evolution, and attempting to identify which aspects are
the result of an evolved human nature. These evolved psychological
mechanisms each made a contribution to survival and reproduction in the
environment in which humans evolved, although many are no longer useful
or even wanted by modern humans. Wilson and Daly's paper argued that one of
these adaptations is that men [more...]
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| 24 Feb 07 Review of "Evolutionary Psychiatry" by Stevens and Price |
| This week I finished
Evolutionary
Psychiatry by Anthony Stevens and John Price. I've had this book since
it came out in 2004, but up to now I'd only read the Sadomasochism chapter
and some of the introductory material. Now that I'm getting interested in
evolutionary models for Internal Enslavement again, I decided to read it
in full - not least because they discuss social rank and dominance in detail
as part of their attempt to explain some psychiatric problems. [more...]
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| 13 Jan 07 Entitlement |
| One of the most interesting aspects of my relationship with lili is the way
we revisit ideas from previous years in a new light or with new clarity.
In the year since popi joined my household, one of the concepts we've been
trying to turn into words is what we now call "Entitlement". This started as
an idea to guide property, but over the holidays I realised that it also
gave a name to an important idea for owners too. Yesterday, the word cropped
up on the "Narcissism and D/s" thread on The Slave Register, and so I'm going
to try to explain how we use that word now, and distinguish it from
narcissistic [more...]
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| 6 Jan 07 "The Story of O" revisited |
| I first read Story of O in 1993 and at the time I didn't really like it
- certainly not its BDSM themes. I could see it was capital-L
Literature, and I'd read enough modern fairy tales and fables to read
between the lines, but to be honest, I was indifferent to it. I reread
it twice over the years with no change in how I felt, although I did
start to notice some astute observations and quotable passages. [more...]
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Internal Enslavement is a radical answer to the question
"Just how binding and complete can consensual slavery really be?"
