Body Modifications

10.10. - Restrictions on body modification

An odalisque is forbidden from undertaking any significant form of body modification by plastic or cosmetic surgery or to elective medical proceedures - especially those that require a full anaesthenic - beyond what is required for good and lasting health, even where her Keeper is agreeable. It is an injunction of this Code that only a freewoman may make significant cosmetic modifications to her physical body. If a slave wishes to make such modifications she must return to the state of the freewoman in order to do so.

Medical technology now allows a wide range of ways in which the body can be modified. Nose jobs. Skin colorings. Hair transplants. Breast enlargements. Breast reductions. Liposuction. And much, much more. There is a revolution in cosmetic surgery. The only limit is your bank account.

This becomes a problematic matter in Master/slave relationships because consent is a minefield here. There is an unacknowledged and growing problem in the BDSM world (and indeed in general society) where dominant men are pressuring and bullying women into having body modifications made - usually to make the woman conform to standards of beauty set by glamour magazines. But can a submissive woman who has given her heart and soul to a Slavemaster really give fully informed consent to such body modifications? Many legal cases now suggest not. Having your body modified is a major and usually permanent event in your life. You should think very long and carefully before going under the surgeon's knife. A sub slave is not really in a position to give what courts of law will acknowledge as fully informed consent regarding such life changing decisions.

Accordingly - and following sound legal advice - Code d' Odalisque has a rule that says a woman can't have significant body modification done while she's a slave. In her situation, consent is impossibly problematic. So if she wants to have breast implants, for example, she can't do it while she's serving as a slave. Minor body modifications - waxing, bleaching, piercing etc. are OK, but major ones are not.

This is really for the protection of submissive females. It is to prevent Slavekeepers from treating odalisques as pieces of meat that can be carved into pleasing shapes. It is to prevent abuses of cosmetic surgery upon odalisques.

Again, minor body modifications are fine. A slave can certainly give viable (and legally recognized) consent for having her ears pierced, for example, or anal bleaching, or a brazilian, or a hundred other minor procedures that can enhance, beautify and decorate the female body. But major body modifications are forbidden. Only a freewoman can give viable consent to such life-changing decisions.