Slave Training

Posted by Tanos on Wed 11 Apr 07, 2:37 PM

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.

I've also been reading The Control Book by Peter Masters, which includes a four-part model for the structure a dominant provides:

• Standing orders - "do X every morning"
• Rules - "when you do Y, do it this way"
• Ethical and moral values - "we never lie"
• Preferences - "I take my coffee black"

and I've based a model for what constitutes slave training on this idea of breaking what a dominant wants into rule-like things, general principles and personal preferences.

Partly by chance, I'm using four words beginning with P ("The Four P's of Slave Training"? )

• Protocols - rules of correct behaviour for a slave, including both practical issues and rituals.
• Preferences - the personal likes and dislikes of the slave's master (and anyone else they will be serving - this is an ongoing aspect of training if new people are to be served.)
• Principles - the master's general ethical values and practical principles, which a slave can use to deal with unanticipated situations.
• Perceptions - including rejecting false entitlement, and feeling owned due to Internal Enslavement

My first attempt at the placeholder version of the wiki article gave the definition "Slave Training refers to the process of aligning a slave's attitudes with their owner's requirements."

With the Four P's, this would become "Slave Training is the process of teaching the master's protocols, preferences and principles to a slave, and aligning the slave's perceptions of their position with their status as property."