Question: Why are odalisques naked?

Question: Why are odalisques naked? Can't they wear any clothes at all?

Answer: An odalisque is essentially naked. She is naked in principle and almost always in practice. This is for several reasons. It is symbolic of her sexual purpose, for a start. Clothes protect the body and so are worn by workers. An odalisque doesn't labour. She is kept from toil and devoted solely to a sexual role, the provision of erotic pleasure. So she has no need of clothes. It is emblematic of her freedom from labour and her servitude to cock. As well as this, her body is an object of visual delight. She is forever on display, visually pleasing to her Master. An odalisque should be visually satisfying when she is not actively engaged in providing sexual satisfaction. She is an erotic object, an object of erotic beauty. She is naked so that her body and her sex is on display. And, as well as this, her nakedness is her leash. An odalisque is not kept on a leash. But she is kept naked, and barefoot, and this acts to bind her, control her. Her Master controls her garments.

By keeping her naked he keeps her enslaved. The idea is that her nakedness is a prison. Freewomen wear clothes and shoes. Slaves are naked and barefooted. Her nakedness signifies her enslavement as well as her humility as a mere slave. It distinguishes her from the freewoman as well as from the working woman. However, an odalisque can be allowed some garments according to her Master's tastes and according to the need to keep warm. And she may be given garments in the context of fantasy. But the Slavemaster cannot dress his slave as a whore, or a slut, and should maintain her essential and basic nakedness at all times. That is, he should dress her as an odalisque – naked – not as something she is not. She is not a freewoman, or a whore, or a slut, or a maid or worker. She is a sex slave. It is appropriate that she is naked. She need not be kept stark naked at all times, but she is eternally, essentially naked, and the Slavekeeper should respect this and observe it as a rule of slavekeeping. It should be stressed that a discalced slave should always be barefooted as well as naked. An odalisque is barefooted. Shoes are the symbol of the freewoman.