Only for young women?

Question: Code d' Odalisque appeals to me greatly, but I'm 41 years old. It seems to be for young women. Am I too old to be an odalisque?

If you are young enough to be sexual then you're young enough to be an odalisque. It is not just for young women. It is for women of any age. Any woman of any age who is sexual enough to want to devote herself to sexual service.

There are many women in their forties (and later) who are into the odalisque lifestyle. Often they are women who have had children young. Now the children have left home. At last such women have their lives to themselves. For some, a period as an odalisque is an indulgence. Being kept for sex. Other women have always wanted to live as odalisques, but it has taken them until their forties to realise this about themselves and to find a situation that permits her to be true to herself.

In any case, Code d' Ode is not just for young women. Slavekeepers often prefer older slaves. They are, on the whole, less troublesome. They are less flighty. They will be more certain in themselves that they want to be odalisques. Younger women are in a much more experimental phase of their life and often do not know what they really want to be doing. Older women have the advantage of maturity. And there are men who just prefer older women, feel more comfortable with older women, communicate with them better and appreciate their beauty.

Code d' Odalisque might give the impression it is for younger women because the grading system included in the Code is based upon a concept of "virginity" that does tend to favor younger women. "Virginity" is diminished, in Code d' Ode, by the "wear and tear" of life upon the female body. Child-bearing, suckling, marriage, burns, scars, blemishes - such things reduce the market value of the slave. Ordinarily, the older the female the more of these things will have occurred in her life, so the older she is the less her market value. But not necessarily so, and the grading is not based on age per se.

"Virginity" is a measure used for play purposes and helps determine the slave price. But all of this is a "game". It is part of the simulated slave economy of Code d' Odalisque. It does not mean, in fact, that older women are less valued as slaves. Slavekeepers will select a slave on many criteria, not just her "virginity".

One factor to consider is that the flightiness of younger women can lead to long term problems. For example, a woman may be wildly promiscuous and madly sexual in her early twenties. In her thirties, however, she becomes a Pentecostal Christian and leads campaigns against pornography. (The real life example of this was Linda Lovelace who was in 'Deep Throat'). It is not uncommon for women to go through an experimental phase and then later become puritanical.

Where slave-play is concerned, CONSENT is always a tricky issue. Morally. Legally. There are now many legal cases where a young woman who "consented" to slave play or bondage etc. later claims that she was too young to know what she was "consenting" to and that the man involved (a "predator") manipulated her by exploiting her youth and naievity. Never mind that she was beyond the age of legal responsibility (18 or 21 usually) - it is a legal minefield.

Such situations are much less likely with older women. They are much less likely to turn into someone entirely different in a few years time. They are more stable, more reliable, have seen more of life, and when they give consent they know what they are consenting to. Consent is - of course - a key issue in Code d' Odalisque, as it should be in any system of slave play.