Captive Mentality - Slavetraining

15.6. - A captive mentality

The objectives and practice of training an odalisque shall include the cultivation of a captive mentality, the experience of confinement, bondage and restriction.

Training must cultivate a captive mentality in the slave. She is a captive, not a freewoman, a prisoner. Training should imbue a strong sense of this from the outset. An odalisque is a luxury slave and has many more privileges than other slaves (memlooks), but she is nevertheless a captive. Training practices will reinforce this sense in her. Not only is she isolated from other people, she is being held captive and lives the life of a sexual prisoner.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

As well as removing the slave to an isolated unfamiliar location, it is good practice to begin training by placing the slave in solitary confinement for periods of time. In this way she is completely cut off from the world and will become even further disoriented. We need to disturb her sense of time and space in a fundamental way. Solitary confinement is a good way to achieve this quickly.

For this purpose you need a small confined space that is warm, dry and totally dark. At the beginning of training you might place the slave in there for hours at a time. Some Trainers may even place a new slave in solitary confinement for days at a time. This is extreme, but it is certainly effective. It helps to draw a line between the slave's old life and her new life of service. It is sometimes useful as a first step to "strip the slave back".

In any case, an odalisque must be trained to be accustomed to isolation. By definition, an odalisque is kept apart from the world. During training - which prepares the slave for service - she is kept isolated for longer and longer periods to help her get used to being kept captive and alone.

Isolation is a very powerful tool for making your subject passive and impressionable. Solitary confinement is very effective for "softening up" a subject. Her whole psychology will change.

In other styles of BDSM training pain is used as a tool to get to the deeper layers of the slave's psychology. Pain is not used in Code d' Odalisque, but psychological techniques such as solitary confinement can be used instead provided all due care is taken for the slave's well-being.

A combination of isolation and manipulation of sleep is a very powerful foundation for slavetraining. With these two tools alone you can shape the slave. But be gentle. Because they are powerful tools they can also be dangerous. Solitary confinement can be dangerous to the mentally fragile, for example. A Trainer must always carefully monitor the effects of training upon the slave. Any techniques that induce unexpected side-effects in the slave should be immediately discontinued.


CAPTIVITY

You can underline the slave's sense of captivity by using cages and other restrictive devices. It is good practise to keep the slave caged for a period of time each day as part of her training. Teach her to become accustomed to restriction and restraint in this way. This is part of her on-going “discalcing.” An obvious difference between a freewoman and a slave is that a freewoman has free mobility, whereas a slave does not. Teach your slave this bedrock fact by keeping her caged or restrained during training. Captivity and restriction, along with isolation, are always key themes in odalisque slavery.

Throughout her training a slave should be placed in restriction - caged or bound or gagged or blindfolded, tied to a bed, strapped to a table. An objective of training is to make the slave accustomed to periods of restriction. Keep the slave in bondage for increasingly long periods of time. The slave must get used to restraint.

Impose physical restrictions upon the slave. The important thing is:

Teach her that she does not have control of her body. She is captive. She must be accustomed to surrendering control of her body to another.

You can use all sorts of devices to restrain and restrict a slave. Bondage and restraint are natural parts of Code d’ Ode slave play. Train the slave to be accustomed to a whole range of methods of restriction. Slavetrainers can use their imagination here.

A slave must be taught that her body is not her own. It is a crucial lesson. We teach the slave this lesson by restricting her control over her own body. She must get used to having someone else control her body. As a training tool, restraint and restriction help develop an attitude in the slave that submits her physical body to others to manipulate and use as they will. Tie her up. Move her from place to place. Reposition her. From the start she should spend a large amount of her time with you, the Trainer, having complete control over her body.

Bondage and restraint are a natural part of Code d’ Odalisque. Explore bondage as far as the slave’s limits allow. As part of her training, introduce the slave to a full range of bondage play.