Luxury and charity

Code d' Odalisque tries to strike a balance between decadence and good taste, indulgence and responsibility. Its framework - consent, safety, legality - has an ethical intent. The balance between indulgence and responsibility is especially important. It is fundamental. With indulgence comes responsibility. And with luxury comes charity.

Code d' Ode presupposes a rich man's world. Even if you regard yourself as of modest means, if you can afford an odalisque you are a wealthy man. An odalisque by definition is a luxury. She is not necessary. She is not essential. She does no work. She is a pure indulgence. Devoted to pleasure.

With luxury comes charity. Wealth should go hand in hand with charity. If one is fortunate in life, it is proper to share that good fortune with those less fortunate. People like Bill Gates understand this.

Code d' Odalisque is a slave code. Slaves are bought and sold. But this - of course - is illegal. In the civilized, urbane, modernized slavery of Code d' Ode the old ways of buying and selling are now transformed to the dignity of charity and alms. The old days of the slave trade are gone. The good old days of capturing maidens on the high seas and selling them at bustling slave markets in Marakesh are gone. These days the slaveprice is commuted into charity and the Slaveowner makes a donation to an appropriate good cause.

This is an important dimension of Code d' Odalisque. The Code includes a simulated slave economy. All the fun of the market and the auctions but the money goes to charity.

In general, Code d' Ode players should adopt a pro-charity attitude to their play. There are many ways that a Code social scene might raise money for charity. Think as socialites. Turn the luxury and decadence of consensual odalisque slavery to a good end.

Doubtless charity is a legitimation device for the wealthy. It is here too. By devoting play to charitable ends it legitimizes the indulgences of the play, it sanitizes. But it is important to have a device to offset the guilt that lurks in people. Linking the luxury of an odalisque to appropriate charities is such a device. It legitimizes. It makes the slave a slave. It is a remedy for guilt. It is an important part of the balance.

The appropriate charities are those devoted to stopping female genital mutilation, forced prostitution and child prostitution. When a gentleman takes an odalisque and begins to enjoy her it is proper for him to extend his generosity to an appropriate charity, as a gesture of respect for the slave's femininity.

The Slavekeeper model is the "millionaire playboy" who lives an opulent lifestyle but is a tireless champion of noble causes. In this case his opulent lifestyle entails a live-in naked cockslave and the noble causes are appropriate to the ethos of the institution of odalisque.

By extension, the odalisque knows that the indulgence of her lifestyle - kept in luxury with no other obligation than to fuck - might assist women who are subject to brutality and are deprived of a sexual identity.